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I’m migrating this website from Drupal to Gatsby.js.
This site has been running on Drupal 7 for almost exactly 10 years. I originally created it to get a free beer at the Drupal 7 release party on January 11, 2011. Not a bad run and Drupal 7 still has nearly 2 years left before EOL.
The main reasons to switch away from Drupal are:
Recently, I realized that I haven’t written anything since 2014 when I wrote about heading off to Colombia by motorcycle. Someone could…
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I had the chance to sit down for dinner at Drupalcon this past May with John P. Weiksnar of the Western New York Drupal Users Group (WNYDUG). After the conference, we had the time to do a quick interview, which was just…
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Confession time: I used to think carousels were a good idea and I was wrong.
If you haven’t seen it yet: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ demonstrates through annoying use of a carousel, exactly why you should never use a carousel on a website.
The site explains why carousels are a bad idea, but why did I think they were a good idea? My belief was based on the idea that the carousel makes more use of the limited screen real estate by putting more content in the same number of pixels. “Real estate” is a dated term, and the whole idea comes from the flawed idea of keeping content “above the fold”.
Image: screen grab from Drupalcon website
Just a quick personal announcement… I’ll be in Bogotá, Colombia in February, 2015 for the first…
