Thanksgiving at Healthcare.gov
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I think everyone who has ever worked on a project that has gone off the rails should be keeping the developers spending their days, nights, and weekends trying to res...
How to Create a Winning Website
Creating or redesigning a website can be an overwhelming task to take on. Most people don’t know where to start, or get stuck along the way.
To make this process easier to understand, we produced this infographic to illustrate the steps required to create a beautiful and meaningful Drupal website.
View the full infographic to learn:
Presentation: Wireframing Smarter
As the sites we build get increasingly complicated, the wireframing phase is increasingly important. Solving high-level usability challenges early in the process is less expensive and faster for you and your clients! In this talk, I'll share the techniques and tools we use at Chapter Three to quickly produce high-quality wireframes and maintain your UX sanity.
Presentation: Best Practices vs. Reality: How to Create Amazing Websites Under Un-amazing Circumstances
It's a reality that web designers, developers, and UXers live with every day: there is a tension between the best practices touted by industry leaders and the reality of getting the job done.
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.
Four easy to fix mistakes that will kill site performance
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):
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.
Wireframing With OmniGraffle, Part 2: Tips and Resources
Now that you’ve got a basic framework for your wireframes, you’re ready to dive in! You should have a fat stack of paper wireframes to work from, so the hard thinking should be done already.
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Wireframing With OmniGraffle, Part 1: Setting up your file
I started using OmniGraffle to produce wireframes over a year ago and haven’t looked back. I went from spending weeks creating greybox-style, perfect wireframe in Fireworks to being able to knock o...
