Publié le 28 février, 2010
Publié le 11 janvier, 2010
Sometimes, we find issues with content that are not anticipated by the planning process since they don't show up by looking at sample content or discussing the major use cases of the site. By looking at real content during the data import phase, these issues can be dealt with at an early stage in the development process.
Publié le 9 janvier, 2010
Building a comprehensive information architecture for a content-heavy website can be a challenge. Luckily, Drupal is great for rapid devleopment and by building content types early on, it's easier to discover issues with either the content, design, or architectural decisions.
Publié le 9 janvier, 2010
Every project we do at Evolving Web has a content import component. Whether the content consists of legacy data sources or a single CSV file with freshly written text, we usually have enough content to consider writing one or several import scripts to import it into Drupal.
Publié le 9 janvier, 2010
When designing the search interface for the McGill Univesrity Health Centre website, there was a lot of discussion around the interface for the header search form.
Publié le 17 décembre, 2009
When building a multilingual site, it's important to ensure that the entire interface can be translated. All knids of site elements are thrown into the mix including taxonomy terms, block titles, views labels, and dates.
Publié le 15 décembre, 2009
The location module is a key component to many Drupal projects, but it can be tricky to work with. It's very common to want to alter the way the location form appears, but the location module doesn't make this easy.
Publié le 11 décembre, 2009
After launching a Drupal site, one of the first things on the checklist is to turn on CSS and JS caching. This really helps speed up loading times, you just have to remember to clear the cache if you update the theme on the live site.
Publié le 19 novembre, 2009
Drupal's powerful Views 2 module comes with a handful of fantastic built-in views that show off just how much views can do out-of-the-box.
Publié le 5 novembre, 2009
Back in October, I gave a talk at Drupal Camp Montreal called Tips & Tricks for Building a Multilingual Site with Drupal. It was a great opportunity to review the multilingual features that we use on a day-to-day basis.