If you haven't heard (or applied) be sure to check out the 2011 Knight News Challenge. It's an opportunity to pursue $5 million in funding for your...
The annual Survey for People Who Make Websites from our friends at A List Apart has gone up, and I encourage you to take ten minutes to parti
For as long as mobile sites have been around the conventional wisdom has been: build your website first and then create a mobile site as an add-on;...
If you are a web designer and you haven't worked with Drupal before, you should really give it a try. Here are the top 5 reasons why...
Alarmist rhetoric from news organizations about the web is nothing new, but today's front-page headline on the New York Times still caught my eye: "
When the W3C started working on HTML again in 2007, they posted a set of guiding principles for the new version, emphasizing compatibility
WordPress is great - and so is Drupal. They are different platforms and should be selected for different projects depending on the needs. So how do...
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Do your clients love you with such a furious passion that it borders on problematic? Do you find new customers calling you and saying things like, "I...
It seems that I hear a lot of people within the Drupal community focusing on how to make Drupal scalable.
It seems that I often hear the term "full service agency" used a lot in the advertising/design/marketing/development world.
Continuing on with the previous topic of essentially “what is Drupal?” we move on to the discussion of PHP and its importance in being able to build...
Metal Toad is now sponsoring Drupal Design Camp Boston. There are a number of reasons for this, but the foremost is that Drupal needs to build...
During my last mini flash project I created a project designed to help me with async calls in AS3. I hope that it helps you too. You can find the...
Please don't get me wrong. Developers like designers who familiarize themselves with the technologies they are designing for.
Developers think of design as Black Magic*. Really.
There's a lot of good to be said about the Brightcove iPhone SDK, it's easy, it seems to work really well, but there's also a ton of gotchas and the...
Do you remember that Art Director who burst into your office with a crazy deadline for a print piece and then let you figure out who to actually make...
When discussing the benefits of open-source frameworks (especially Drupal), I've often heard, "But if everyone has access to the source code, how...
You know that button on the website you want to change? The one that looks like it was designed in 1999? Guess what? It was designed in 1999, and so...
Here's a tiny shopping cart block for Ubercart that fits right in with the menu. Of course the standard block could be themed this way, but this is...
As someone who has worked in the web industry for over 10 years, I've seen a lot of friction between designers and developers.
During the theming process for the Emmys, specifically Emmys.com and Emmys.tv, we were presented with 2 differently styled marquees. On Emmys.com,...
It's well known the iPhone can play H.264 video. With tools like ffmpeg, hooking this up to Drupal ought to be simple, right? Here are a few snags I...
How can your nonprofit generate buzz without spending any money? Leveraging social media channels is a great way to start.