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SOLVING LIFE'S HARD PROBLEMS

An Easy Way to Make Your Non-Profit Website Bulletproof

Websites seem to always go down at the most inopportune times, don’t they? While it may be easy to chalk it up to Murphy’s law, a leading reason for website outages is web traffic overloading your server or host. Usually website visits are spread out across the course of the days, weeks, and months

The Docker Revolution

I first heard about Docker in October of 2014. It was suggested that we use it to host our sites to help contain hackers to one site at a time, should they get through our defenses. This new technology looks like it could again

SMACSS your SASS

I'll let you in on a secret...I've only been coding and making websites for about four years now. Don't tell anyone. When I started everything I did was in HTML and CSS. I wasn't even using an IDE, it was all done by "hand" as they say

Optimizing image performance on your site in Drupal

As a developer you can do everything in your power to make your site really slim & fast but when you hand it to the Client there is still a possibility that the Client could make changes that would adversely affect the final product. There

What and Why EntityFieldQuery?

What and Why EntityFieldQuery? Most of the time when we want to display data in Drupal we use Views. However, Views can messed with and even the most trained end user, as we all know, can and will break things. Using EntityFieldQuery (EFQ)

Utilizing the power of Display Suite to make your Drupal sites more SMACSS-y

Drupal's default rendering isn't great. If you want a simple image field on a page it is going to wrap it in at least 4 divs, all with weird classes, so to style it you have to grab something like .field-field-main-blog-image > img which

Incorporating Drupal.settings into your module code.

The javascript Drupal object has been designed to do awesome things. So let's see how to do awesome things with it!