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Setting up Drupal Code Sniffer Drupal Web Development titi 07 Mar 2016 A few weeks ago I had to go through the process of setting up php code sniffer on my new computer, and realised how confusing most of the blog posts out there are and how many loops and posts you have to jump through to get it set up. I decided to write a quick post with all the commands in one place and small descriptions for most of the commands: Installing Drupal Coding Sniffer 1. Download… Local .htaccess environment conditionals, HTTPS... Drupal Web Development Platform Development denise 01 Sep 2015 Adapted from a post by the Nerdary that basically deals with the problem of having .htaccess files that are different on your local and other environments. This example deals with the headache of https and not wanting your local environment to automatically redirect to HTTPS. I am only posting the relevant code that sets up the environment variable. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on #…

Web Development,

UX & Web Design

Testing in Internet Explorer without...

Internet Explorer. The bane of most web developers' lives. How often have we built a site and looked back content with our efforts, only to have that satisfaction whipped away when opening Internet Explorer? We'll leave aside the fact that Internet Explorer is actually a pretty good browser these days (from IE10 things were really starting to look up, but even IE9 supports media queries and…

08 Jul 2015 Testing in Internet Explorer without...

The Front End of the... Drupal Web Development george 10 Jun 2015 As part of the front end team, I was quite excited to be introduced into the project on the sites for FCA. We knew the sites would all be running on the same Drupal pre base using several modules to ensure smooth operation with different domains. What we needed to focus on was dealing with five independent themes including a theme folder which was to be the basis for three separate sites…

Drupal,

Web Development

Handling the Gruntwork of Frontend...

Introduction With frontend development getting more and more complex every day, there are more and more steps we as frontend devs need to go through in order to get the job done. Of course there is still something to be said for crafting your HTML / CSS, but this isn't always required / possible. Tools like Markdown and HAML can take the 'load' off writing raw HTML. Preprocessors such as SASS…

24 Oct 2014 Handling the Gruntwork of Frontend...

Web Development

Why Use HTML5?

Update 27/01/11: HTML5 is now really just HTML. But for those who like buzz words we'll call it HTML5. So read on about why you can use the evolving version of HTML, I mean HTML5. Firstly, lets look at the past to see where we have come from. About 6 years ago Dave and I attended the first ever @media web conference in London. A common question that kept cropping up was “yes we’ve heard about…

27 Jan 2011 Why Use HTML5?