One of the most popular components on any website I've worked on is the "Card" component. Depending on the website, the card component is used to group various pieces of content into a container which can be used throughout your website. Read the full article on how to build a…
Sharing is caring. I've been working on my personal blog (this site), for a while. I built it with Gatsby and little by little I have been adding extra functionality. Today I'm going to show you how I added social sharing links to allow visitors to share my posts with…
We are used to watching the news and somewhere in California there is a wildfire destroying nature and people's homes. In 30 years I have lived in the Los Angeles area I have never experienced this first hand. I've have been a victim of earthquakes but this was my first…
In Drupal's twig templates you'll often see an attributes variable being output within the template. This variable is how core and contrib modules inject their CSS classes, an ID, or data attributes onto template markup. You'll also find title_prefix and title_suffix variables. These are used by core and contrib modules…
For the past few years we've been working on a training curriculum around Component Based Development and every time we finish updating it for an upcoming event we feel really good about it and think we finally got it. In reality, a training curriculum for a topic so complex as…
On one of my last training workshops I took a chance and decided to let students pick their environment of choice to use during training. As always I hosted an online call prior to training to assist anyone who needed help setting up their environment. About five of the students…
A successful training experience begins before we step foot in the training room. Or, in these days of distance learning, it begins before students login to your training platform. The challenge is having an environment that is easy for students to setup and provides all the tooling required for the…
Whether you are a veteran or just getting started with web development, working with web forms is not the sexiest thing but there is no avoiding them. Forms on a website are critical to the website's mission and the visitors using them. In this post I am going to show…
Component-based development is something I have been doing for at least five years and it is incredible that I still find myself learning something new every time I work on a new project. In addition to development, I write training curriculums on the topic and this gives me more exposure…
When working on a component-based project, building components or patterns, can be a liberating experience because we are able to draft the best markup possible to build the most flexible, scalable and reusable components. If you work with third party platforms such as SharePoint, WordPress, Drupal, or others, this becomes…