Wednesday, Sep 9, 2015
Everybody in the Drupal community is getting very excited about the impending release of Drupal 8, however, this could also mean the end of Drupal 6! For those who aren’t aware, the Drupal community only ever supports two stable version of the software at a time. This means that when Drupal 8 is released as stable, Drupal 6 will no longer be supported.
At the moment there are still four or five blocking issues that need to be resolved before an official release candidate is announced, but within a few weeks these should be sorted out and Drupal 8 will be with us in full. ...
Thursday, Sep 3, 2015
Like any digital business, we’ve got a lot of online acccounts. And all of these online accounts have a password. Sometimes each member of our team has an account. And sometimes we need to share passwords securely between team mambers to share an account. That’s a lot of usernames and passwords. In fact we don’t even know how many we have.
Luckily, we don’t need to. That’s what password managers such as LastPass and OnePassword were invented for. ...
Friday, Aug 28, 2015
Yesterday saw us launch a new Wordpress plugin which enables site builders to easily install the Shoprocket ecommerce system (http://shoprocket.co) on their sites. The plugin is hosted on wordpress.org at https://wordpress.org/plugins/integration-with-shoprocket-ecommerce, or is available from the ‘Add plugins’ section inside the Wordpress admin area.
Shoprocket is a slick new ecommerce service which we’re really excited to be working with. They’ve made it possible to set an ecommerce site up in a matter of minutes, and it provides a fantastic user experience which makes the purchasing process as painless as possible. ...
Friday, Aug 21, 2015
Mailchimp is a fantastic service that makes creating and sending HTML emails fast and easy. Mandrill, Mailchimp’s transactional email API, can be used to send lovely HTML emails straight from Drupal, but it needs a bit of configuring. So I thought a blog post was in order.
Install the Mail System, Mailchimp and Mandrill Drupal projects
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailsystem https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill Enable the Mail System, Mailchimp, Mailchimp Lists, Mailchimp Campaigns, and Mandrill modules. ...
Friday, Aug 14, 2015
When building a new website, SEO can sometimes be a bit of an afterthought, coming in after design, user experience, functionality, and a host of other considerations. This is a bit strange really, given that if you’re not getting eyeballs to your site, all the rest of it counts for nothing!
Fortunately, Drupal has a bunch of contributed modules available that can help whip your site into Google-friendly shape. A good place to start is with the SEO checklist module, which provides a huge list of ways to improve your SEO. ...
Friday, Aug 7, 2015
We’re excited to announce that our Shoprocket Drupal project has been accepted by the community. The module allows the easy integration of the Shoprocket ecommerce system with Drupal, making it a matter of minutes to get your online shop up and running. The Drupal project page is at https://www.drupal.org/project/shoprocket.
Shoprocket (https://shoprocket.co) is an exciting new venture which uses a lightweight javascript library to easily create a flexible, simple ecommerce system. It takes literally minutes to set up, depending on the size of your product range, but it’s also flexible and robust. ...
Friday, Jul 31, 2015
We’ve been using the Sass preprocessor for a little while now and it’s undoubtedly a brilliant tool for expanding the power of CSS while also making it more maintainable.
One of the great beauties of Sass is that it enables you to split your theming files up pretty much however you see fit. This obviously helps you to keep your style rules nicely organised rather than having large files of CSS. ...
Monday, Jul 27, 2015
We’ve moved… Hallneg Limited are now located at Bellingham House in the heart of St Neots on the corner of Huntingdon Street and Cambridge Street. Only moments from all local conveniences and walking distance from St Neots mainline station.
The newly refurbished office is a vibrant and modern facility housed within a characterful Grade II Listed Building. We have meeting facilities, high speed internet, a hot-desking hub and open plan campus all in house. ...
Friday, Jul 24, 2015
Making a custom block in Drupal, something other than a block with a title and body which is already core functionality, is something that we often end up doing when integrating services from other locations to control the display of some data. Although it may not be as elegant as integrating with a custom entity, it is far less time consuming overall and where we attempt to deliver value before perfection it fits with most customer requirements. ...
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2015
We’re starting some exciting new Drupal projects for customers over the next few weeks, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to share with everybody what contributed modules we’re downloading for all our new sites, and why. The Will Hall Online Drupal starter kit, if you like.
Without further ado, then:
Dependencies and Basic Functionality Ctools – can’t get much done without ctools Devel – a key project for any Drupal developer Entity API – same reasons as Ctools jQuery Update – updates Drupal’s default jQuery version, which is frequently useful Libraries – we try not to add libraries where not necessary for performance reasons, but one or two we just can’t do without Token – quite a few other modules depend on Token Admin NavBar - We’re big fans of the responsive NavBar project which has been backported from Drupal 8. ...
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