Introduction to Buyer Personas
As a digital solutions organization that’s been traditionally known as a web design and development shop, we get a lot of requests from organizations that would like an intuitive, engaging, easy-to-use, and/or pretty. The thing about this whole intuitive, engaging, and easy-to-use thing is that it: #1 depends on what you want people to do…
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Behat with Drupal – Tutorial
On our first day as interns at Cheeky Monkey, we were given the task of exploring the somewhat uncharted waters of using Behat, an open-source BDD (Behavior-driven development) testing framework, with Drupal 7. Why BDD Testing? We all know that testing is important, but why do we bother with “BDD” testing? Behavior-driven development testing is exactly…
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Building a Custom Module – Part 3
This is part 3, of a 3 part tutorial for creating a custom module for drupal 7. If you haven’t already done so, you may wish to look at part 1 and part 2 first. Anyway, here is the source code of this tutorial. First of all, though, I have to apologize that I did not do…
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What running longer taught me about working smarter
I like to run. A lot. I log more miles than the average bear, which to some people is nuts, but I find it very therapeutic. This mindset comes in handy as I am currently training for a 70-mile, ultra marathon race (it may involve going up and over a mountain). As you might suspect,…
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Working With The Paragraphs Module For Drupal
Recently, I started using the Paragraphs Module to develop landing pages for Drupal Websites. If you haven’t used it before, go check it out. It’s really user-friendly. I feel like it’s a replacement for field collections. However, unlike field collections, paragraphs allow you to choose a different set of fields each time. Contributed modules mentioned in…
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11 Things I would Tell my Past Self About Being a Graphic Designer
Party Like it’s 1999 As I write this article, I have been in the graphic design business for about 17 years. It’s been a long but rewarding haul. In 1999, I launched my first graphic design business… Steel Dolphin Creative. I had cultivated a few clients from networking at the gym I was working at,…
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Drupal and Masonry, without the tears of Frustration
I recently had to create a new layout that mimicked the Pinterest layout. Masonry to the rescue! (sorta…) With Drupal already crapping out the content via views, we could just use the Masonry views plugin, right? Sorta. Well, it worked. … sorta. There were problems, and I don’t like problems, only solutions. I like a…
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Meet the Interns: Jordan Meier
Recently, Cheeky Monkey Media selected two interns from the Epicodus Drupal Development Track. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Epicodus, it is “a vocational school for aspiring programmers” based in Portland, Oregon. After what seemed like weeks of listening to Gene and Rick interview potential interviews, where they asked them, along with a…
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Is your Website Causing you to miss out on Funding?
Money, something that is not at the forefront for not-for-profits, but is something that is always in the background. This is especially true when you don’t have enough of it to start that new initiative. You know the one with the delayed launch. Ya, that one. It’s okay, the economy is still tough and grants…
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D8 You’re Great! My first experience with Drupal 8
This is one of the blogs that I was really thrilled to write because I got to document my first-ever installation of the production version of Drupal 8. And boy, was I excited! As you know, Drupal has made some significant changes under the hood in this version. I am not going to go over…
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