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Unique Requirements: Contrib vs Custom modules
December 16, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason When working on larger projects, software architects and tech leads inevitably come across a few big hurdles in the project requirements for some not so “out of the box” functionality. They start asking themselves questions about the best way to approa… Read more
Custom Drupal 404 Pages
November 3, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason A while ago, our creative director asked me to implement a custom 404 page on our corporate website. We were tired of the generic drupal 404 page and wanted to give it our own “cheeky” touch. Of course with drupal, there are a few different ways to acc… Read more
Building a custom module part 2
September 22, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason This tutorial is written for new Drupal developers or PHP developers who want to learn drupal. You can find the part 1 of the tutorial here: Drupal Tutorial Part 1 Last time, we created a simple recipe module with save and load functionality. The user… Read more
Require JS, Grunt, Bower, Foundation and Drupal – Part 2
September 15, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Welcome back. If you just found this, you might want to start with Part 1 before reading on. Okay, now we’re going into our custom theme folder (that’s based on the STARTER foundation sub-theme. Check out Justin’s Blog post, on how to set that up. So,… Read more
Toolbar and Admin Menu Tweaks
July 30, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Have you ever been working on a site, and had your QA department or your client come back with issues because when logged in, the local tabs (view, edit, etc) distort the page layout? Or maybe there are a lot of pages that contain a lot of content, and… Read more
Resistance is Futile!
July 23, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Back in June of 2014, the monkeys Drupal Development team headed for Austin, Texas. We stormed the Drupalcon with adventure gear, and a few clever and even controversial tee shirt giveaways. One of the most popular tee shirt was the “We are Drupal – Re… Read more
Into the Fire with Foundation and The Big “D”rupal
July 15, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Cheeky Monkey broke my Foundation cherry. It’s been a pleasurable experience. Coming from frameworks like Zen Grids (+ Drupal Theme) and Susy2 Grids, I can appreciate (and need) some major control over the grids. I have to say though, the foundation… Read more
An Introduction To AngularJS and Drupal
July 2, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason If you are looking to create a rich and dynamic web app that has little to no latency, Drupal and AngularJS is the answer as they go hand in hand. In this article I will show you a brief intro of what AngularJS is. There is a bit of a learning curve in… Read more
Easy Site Administration for Both Site Builders and Site Admins
June 25, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Coming up with a way to easily navigate and administer a Drupal site has always been a bit of a struggle. Usually, you’ve pleased the site builders and confused the normal site admins. Or pleased the site admins, but then caused the site builders to pu… Read more
Responsive Images with Foundation Interchange
June 9, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Having a mobile friendly responsive website is always a good idea. Having a responsive website that loads really fast is even better. Large images are often a bottleneck and the cause of slower page load. A great way to solve this is to serve up differ… Read more
4 Easy Steps to Configure Drupal to Send HTML Emails
May 26, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Learn how to configure Drupal to send out HTML emails. Also, learn how to add images and colours to email in order to enhance your user’s experience. We are going to use mail system and mime mail in this tutorial. I will try to keep things simple.… Read more