Insights that inspire

Learn how to make your clients love you. This session will uncover tips for successful collaborations and share how mastering human interactions is the key to happiness, success and job satisfaction.

Knowing how to collaborate effectively with clients and co-workers largely accounts for the success of our projects. Yet navigating these waters is not always easy. All of us have encountered sticky situations where clients or co-workers miscommunicate, leading to different intrepretations of reality, which can lead to conflict.

Last week in San Francisco, around 200 PHP developers, myself included, gathered for the Sensio Labs Symfony Live conference. For the uninitiated, Symfony is a full-stack PHP framework made up of a collection of 23 individual components designed to solve common web development problems.

Drupal can be complicated, but with that comes incredible power and flexibility. The Drupal theme system creates the perfect storm of complexity, UX and control from the interface. Drupal theming isn't easy, but even the layman can do incredible things through pointing and clicking. And if you want to do things The Drupal Way, it's vitally important to learn to let Drupal do what it can from the interface (before even thinking about touching code).

Getting a new website going is like moving your family into a new house.

A good content inventory gets you packed, with everything organized and labeled correctly. (Sometimes this might mean tossing stuff that’s not worth keeping through the move.)

In lieu of the fact that I was unable to go attend Confab this week, I wanted to represent the Content Strategy movement by sharing a notion I've been thinking about for quite some time. I believe there are three key ingredients to making an amazing website: 

Last week I attended the Future Insights Conference in Las Vegas. For those unfamiliar with this conference, it's a combination of the Future of Web Design conference and the Future of Web Apps conference.

A few years back I worked on a project, which will remain nameless, where I redesigned the IPE (In Place Editor) for Panels. My dreams were crushed when I found out implementation was not possible for various techno-complicated reasons.