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Amanda Luker
May 14, 2013

SASS + Compass + Modernizr and browser information detection

Jack, my co-themer here at Advomatic, and I will be doing a series of articles about how we use SASS and Compass on our projects. There are plenty of... more
Jack Haas
May 10, 2013

Responsive & adaptive grids with Susy, Sass & Compass in Drupal 7

Here at Advomatic we've experimented with several approaches to responsive design over the past few years. I think the "mobile first" philosophy became popular right in the nick of time. There was a point when we'd detect if the user was on a mobile device and then deliver a... more
Elana Levin
Feb 26, 2013

Congrats to Global Zero on Their New Site

Congratulations to Global Zero on the launch of their new site. In case you haven't been reading the news Global Zero is the international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. ... more
Elana Levin
Jun 20, 2012

How To Ensure Your Web Development Project is a Complete Failure

Our workshop at Netroots Nation was a huge hit so by popular demand we're sharing Aaron's slides. The presentation is called "How to Ensure Your Web Development Project is a Complete Failure". Our section of the presentation addresses the project... more
Jake Bell
Apr 17, 2012

Fine-grained caching with Views

A lot of very interesting things are happening to make Drupal's caching system a bit smarter. One of my favorite recent (albeit... more
Amanda Luker
Apr 11, 2012

Responsive Design Tips from DrupalCon

Ah, Drupalcon. Three days of panels and BOFs, one Advomatic code sprint, and some very late nights with the Advoteam. Now I'm thrust back into the land of overflowing diaper pails and spaghetti bits everywhere that is work-from-home motherhood. But I promised myself I'd put my DrupalCon notes... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
Feb 27, 2012

Removing fields from CiviCRM

Sometimes after launching a new site our clients find that there are fields and features in CiviCRM that they don't use. We are working with a client that wants to remove all fields and features that aren't useful in order to simplify their user interface and make it easier to use. This... more
Amanda Luker
Sep 18, 2011

Flowing a list view into two columns

Columns. While it may seem like a good idea to a graphic designer, the idea of newspaper-style columns strikes fear in the hearts of themers everywhere. In particular, you may run into an instance where you need a list view to be A-L in the first column, then M-Z in the second column. I'll walk... more
Amanda Luker
Jul 6, 2011

Build a Filterable Staff Directory in Drupal 6 or 7

Here's a beginner-level Drupal CCK/Views site building recipe for creating a nicely filterable Staff page. After making one like this for a recent project in Drupal 6, I was both pleased and annoyed to discover how easy it is to build in Drupal 7, now that fields are in core. I'll show you both... more
Jack Haas
Jun 7, 2011

Notable changes to theming in Drupal 7

There are 50+ changes to the theme system in the move to Drupal 7 - that's a lot to consider when upgrading your theme from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. As expected, some of the changes make theming more complex... but those changes can also free things up... more
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