Posts where the audience is fellow freelancers or ourselves so we don't forget things. Most of these posts are for sorting out our opinions on best practices.
Posted on July 13, 2015 by Jen Brown
We successfully migrated some client websites, built with Drupal 7.x, from Media 1.x to Media 2.x. This blog post is intended as reference for developers who need to do the same.
We were able to get this working using the following Modules and Libraries:
Modules: Read more about Updating Drupal 7.x websites from Media 1.x to Media 2.x »
Posted on May 21, 2015 by Jen Brown
[Setting: Maria’s office. Jen and Maria both have coffee and are tap-tap-tapping away on their respective MacBooks as they work on their clients’ websites.]
Maria: Hey, we should have a blog post on widget doo-hickeys. I’ve got it all organized in my head.
Jen: That sounds great! Here, I’ll capture that as a to-do item in WorkFlowy.
Then, because we are nerds, we keep developing our clients’ websites and neglect writing blog posts. Read more about Using Zen 5 Theme for Drupal to Create a Responsive Website »
Posted on April 15, 2014 by Jen Brown
One of our clients needs a website upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Here are the steps I took to export the users from the D6 site and import them into the D7 site.
See Just Magic Design blog entry Recipe for starting a new Drupal project. For a variety of reasons, we wanted to start with a clean Drupal 7 site and migrate content over from the D6 site. Read more about Upgrading a website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7: migrating the users »
Posted on June 26, 2012 by Maria Greene
Moving a website may be done for many reasons, including:
The process is basically the same for any CMS-based site: Read more about Moving a Site »
Posted on June 18, 2012 by Maria Greene
This is one of those "notes to self" posts about using the Zen Magic starter project to start a new project with the least number of steps possible. In what follows, I'm starting up a new project to make the website http://example.com. For the name of the project, I use the website domain name, minus the TLD, so example.com would be project example. Read more about Recipe for starting a new Drupal project »
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Maria Greene
One of my potential clients once compared JustMagicDesign.com to the shoemaker's children. For a long time, the website was just an image of a business card because we were too busy working on client sites to spend the time to make one for ourselves. It's exciting to finally have a "real" website to show people. Read more about Finally, a website! »
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Maria Greene
One of the main principles of software development is Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY). When writing code, we spend a lot of time "factoring out" the common parts into reuseable chunks. But when I started each new web development project, I found myself repeating the same steps over and over -- come up with an estimate, customize a contract, download the core CMS files, download the same set of contributed modules/plugins that I use for every site, set up basic configuration, do the same sorts of customizations to my base theme, etc. I decided it was time to DRY up my project management. Read more about The Zen Magic starter project »