North Dakota Amber Alert
I recently had the pleasure of finishing another ITD design project, I was able to work with a number of great people at ITD, as well as the NDHP and Department of Emergency Services to update the...
View ArticleSocial Media is not the end!
Is your social media strategy backwards? Are you tweeting about what you've posted on Facebook? Posting on Facebook about what you're doing on Twitter or your Wordpress.com blog? Social media tools...
View ArticleA Link of a Different Color
I've been spending a lot of time reviewing websites lately. I keep seeing the same few mistakes over and over. Some of them may be intentional design choices, but for the most part they seem to be...
View ArticleDrupal Presentation
I gave a presentation to a local social media group called NDTweetup earlier today. I walked through various Drupal capabilities, discussed installation profiles, and showed some examples of Drupal...
View ArticleBlogDesk
BlogDesk is a fairly nice desktop blogging client. In simpler terms it's a piece of software that lets you post to your blog from your desktop without using the web browser. This allows for some added...
View ArticleFlipboard and Accessibility
I think iPad apps like Flipboard may turn out to be one of the best things to happen to accessibility in quite a while. Not because they are accessibility tools themselves, because they are not. No,...
View ArticleWe Have Not Forgotten
It's hard to believe it's been four years. These images are free to use anywhere you'd like for personal reasons. Other formats could be made available. Let me know where you use them if it's...
View ArticleiPad Wallpaper Images
I've been spending a lot of time with Photoshop lately, and I'd like to share some of my work with you. Jump over to Riven Design and check out the iPad wallpaper images we've put up. When I have time...
View ArticleDo You Hear Yourself?
Do you subscribe to your own RSS feeds? You should. It may sound like a strange form of vanity but it's not. It's a defense mechanism. If you don't subscribe, how do you know what your readers are...
View ArticleDoes your blog have a name?
It sounds like a silly question, but it's really not. Does your blog have a name? In the admin section of most blogging platforms, there's a field for the blog's name. It often defaults to something...
View ArticleI see the light
I've been on back to back development projects for over a year year. I'm afraid I've been neglecting this site to an embarrassing degree. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and hopefully...
View ArticleBeginning Again
I've decided to dedicate some time every day to working on fun projects. Some of that time will be spent on this website.I recently updated this site from Drupal 6 to 7 and I'm going to be rebuilding...
View ArticleThe beginning
This is the first post in a series dedicated to documenting the process of building a Drupal 7 blog. The topics will range from CSS and theme choices to module selection and configuration. Fair...
View ArticleThe Big Picture
Too many projects start off with big plans, without even a glance at the big picture. Not the "Big Picture" in the global sense, but an evaluation of how the website as a complete entity will function....
View ArticleWhich Drupal Entity
Drupal 7 offers several default entity types. Node (content) types, Taxonomies, and Users by default, File and Custom Entities with add-on modules. When you are first confronted by Drupal, these can...
View ArticleDrupal 7: Bulk Exporting Entity Fields
If you've ever needed to export all of the fields out of a Drupal Entity, this might help.
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