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Views has long been one of the magic pieces that makes Drupal my CMS of choice. Views allows us to easily create queries of content in the UI, giving great power to the site builder. When you first...
Read more about No more View pages
I have been on a performance kick lately, trying to optimize the delivery of caching and delivery of pages to users from Drupal. It seems like the biggest piece of every site I work on are the imag...
Read more about In search of the most optimized image in Drupal 7
MidCamp is returning to Chicago, Illinois on March 17th through the 20th, 2016. We will be returning to the University of Illinois at Chicago, this time, on the west side of the campus. MidCamp is...
Read more about Submit your sessions for Midcamp 2016 - Midwest Drupal Camp in Chicago
As you may have noticed, /sites/default/files can quickly become a pretty busy place in your Drupal installation. When creating image or file fields, we can add folders in the Drupal UI to organize...
Read more about Using CKFinder to organize image uploads by Content type in Drupal 7
There are days that I work on half a dozen different websites. I'm sure some of you are in the same boat. We make client edits and change requests with rapid efficiency. We work locally, push to st...
Read more about Using Drupal's Environment Indicator to help visually manage Dev, Stage, and Production Servers
I have been searching for a way to make Drupal output cleaner, lighter, more semantic HTML since I started theming. We all know Drupal core, and it's many contrib modules have a tendency to inject...
Read more about Using Fences and Page Manager to optimize HTML markup in Drupal 7