Managing your Drush Aliases

If you are like me, you have a lot of Drush aliases in your life, aliases for local sites, sites on dev servers, sites at Pantheon, sites at Acquia, sites all over the place.

To get all of the aliases for your Pantheon sites, log into your Pantheon account and click the link in the top right corner of the "Your Sites" page to download.

Pantheon screenshot

 

Photo
Mark

Four easy to fix mistakes that will kill site performance

  1. Not Changing APC's Default apc.shm_size Value

    You'll understand why this obscure setting is #1 on the list when you consider the benchmarks of drupal_load below (If you're not using APC, or have no idea what APC is I suggest you keep that fact a secret, and install it now):

Photo
Nick

Leveling the Learning Curve for Content Admins

What’s the best way to engage users and direct them to your call to action? By now it has become a mantra: Content is King. A great website offers regularly updated, meaningful content. But behind every good blog post, video or event is a content administrator who formats and posts that content. Asking that content admin to “think” is annoying at best and debilitating at worst.

Photo
Susan

How to update a Drupal site built by others

Have you ever worked on a Drupal site you hadn’t built yourself? If you have you may already know not every developer follows the Drupal development’s best practices and there are many sites containing “hacked” code. Unrelated to espionage and bond villains the phrase “hacked” refers to any community contributed code that has been independently modified since its original download.

Photo
Ben

Death of skeuomorphism and the future of design

The future is now

At the Design4Drupal camp in Boston there was a lot of talk about responsive design the state of design and where the future of design is headed. There was much discussion about what types of devices we may soon be designing for and how people will interact with them.

Photo
Darius

How to Give Design Feedback Like a Pro

Giving design feedback is hard, but with a few quick tips you do it like a pro. The Design Feedback Sandwich. The best way to keep designers happy is to use what I call the&nb...
Photo
Nica

Put Some Thought Into Your Files Folder Architecture and The Cats of The Web Will Purr With Thanks.

Recently, I had the special fun of migrating a new client’s site over to a new host. Everything was going smoothly and quickly until I got to the Files folder. It contained a 4-gigabyte hodgepodge of images, thumbnails, pdfs, known site backups and unknown site backups (Yes, unknown! I don't count the WordPress version of the site from six years ago as a "known about" backup). It got me thinking about one part of Drupal that I think many take for granted: The Files system. Drupal is three-part system: Database, Code and Files.
Photo
Phil