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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Proper use of headings h1-h6 in your project presents many advantages incuding semantic markup, better SEO ranking and better accesibility. Updated April 3, 2020 Building websites using the component based approach presents all kinds of advantages over the traditional page building approach. Today I’m going to show how to create…
As many developers, when I hear the words "static website" I immediate think of creating flat HTML pages and editing them by hand. Times have changed. As you will see, Static Site Generators (SSG), offer some of the most advanced features and make use of latest technologies available on the…
Update 1-10-19 I wrote an extended version of this post at Mediacurrent's blog, check it out. As long as I can remember I've enjoyed public speaking. This doesn't mean I am good at it, it simply means I enjoy it. School events, class president, my jobs, etc., they all taught…
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…
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…