Last Thursday we had our second Drupal 262 user group meeting on "Breaking Down Drupal." The goal of the meeting was to simplify and explain all of the terminology found in Drupal: regions, blocks, menus, nodes, taxonomy, and users. I'm posting a link to the slides that were presented that helped tie everyhing together.
Earlier today I created a new sandbox module on Drupal.org called "Omega Responsive Menu," and although I have Omega in the title, it should be theme agnostic. The reason I called it Omega Responsive Menu is due to the fact I built it for all the Omega 3 sites I have had to work on.
Right now two of the most popular open source content management systems are WordPress and Drupal. WordPress is very simplistic and easy to roll out, which is why there is nearly 80,000,000 websites using WordPress. Then you have Drupal which is a more robust content management system that needs a little bit more love to get things moving.
After a few months I decided to give Facebook Albums some love. With 2.0.4 I implemented WordPress's caching mechanism to cache Facebook API responses for better performance. Will it never occurred to me about clearing said cache if the widget or that post updates.
When I relauched my website I went on the flat and thin design bandwagon. I also took the same approach and crafted up a CodePen of a form utilize flat design.
If you are using Drupal Commerce and are allowing customer's two or more shipping services you'll notice that the order may not make sense. By default the shipping services are displayed by how they're output in grouping of shipping provider then some other sorting that isn't cost based. There is a hook within Commerce Shipping that allows reordering of all shipping services.
Solid web design requires a well planned wireframe of the website's design outline. A wireframe depicts a page's layout and helps organize the content and get a feel for how the website should hold its content. If you aren't familiar with the idea, think of how animators being using sketches on a storyboard. Each sketch is a penciled drawing of a frame and it helps tell the story.
I spent a few hours this evening and knocked out a few updates for Commerce Reports to kick off the 4.x version of the module. It separates the module from the non-maintained Visualization API for the maintained Charts module. This version also removes the granularity filter we've all come to know and love with using Views Date Format SQL module.
I use my personal server as a guinnea pig to push my server administrative skills to the edge and help bleed as much performance out of Drupal. So not even an hour and a half ago I signed up for New Relic and installed their monitoring daemon on my server. And I'm in love. The installation was ridiculously easy that even a novice who is scared of the terminal could pull it off.
I have just migrated my website from WordPress to Drupal, so if you run across any bugs I apologize while I get the kinks figured out. I discovered the hard way Disqus comments do not migrate well, even if its just across platforms and no URL changes.