Brick by Brick, Round 2

It used to be that when you launched a new website you would have two to three years before the design started to feel dated.  Given how quickly things are moving now, a design can start feeling stale after as little as six months.  The battle against dated design is constant.  ...

Unit Testing In Drupal

PHP is a language that traditionally has not had unit testing as part of the development process. A large part of that was that way back when, there just weren’t any good tools for doing testing. Another major factor is that many of the learning resources for PHP do not mention doing things like unit tests,...

Possibly The Greatest Article About Headline Writing Ever Written

With the rise of social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest the way content is discovered has changed dramatically the last few years. If you want to be successful, your content strategies have to evolve along with the discovery mechanisms.

From a content creation standpoint, one of the things that has changed the most the last few years is the the headline....

Pounding the Rock: Lessons from the San Antonio Spurs on running a great digital campaign

I grew up in San Antonio and like everyone from there I’m a big fan of the San Antonio Spurs. Since drafting Tim Duncan in 1997, the Spurs have gone on an unprecedented run, winning four NBA titles and more than 50 regular games each season for the last thirteen years. ...

How to Create Dynamic SVG’s with Raphaël

Over the last few years I have heard more and more good things about the javascript library Raphaël. A project I was working on recently afforded me the opportunity to experiment with it fully. I discovered that it is really powerful and actually fun and easy to work with. In fact,...