eMUNICATIONS' Blog
This is eMUNICATIONS' Website Blog. We post tips and tricks on website design and development, managing your website, email accounts and more. We hope this information is useful and that you will come back often to see what is going on at eMUNICATIONS.
Recent Articles & Blog Posts
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1 week 2 days ago
I'll be speaking at OpenCa.mp this weekend about module development, be sure to come down and check it out as it's sure to be an interesting presentation. I've crammed a lot into 40 minutes, so everyone should walk away with something new. The presentation will be archived and made available here and on the OpenCa.mp site, so check back if you miss the conference. I spend some time reviewing the basic concepts surrounding module development in Drupal and then dive right in with an overview of a working module. I also spend time discussing some strategies for speeding up development of modules and some of the common pitfalls that you will face. If you'd like to follow along with the presentation, you can find the source code for the simple module we cover here. It's a simple image carousel based on the jquery cycle plugin. We use a much more advanced version of it in production here at eMUNICATIONS. Feel free to contact me with questions about the presentation... -
2 weeks 22 hours agoeMUNICATIONS' own Ryan Martin has moved into second place on Footer Fetish! Because Ryan has something of a footer fetish anyway, this honor only seems appropriate. Ryan's entry in the graphic design contest is from the Foster Creek Veterinary Hospital website. Go check out the whole website design and then click over to Footer Fetish to vote for Ryan's footer graphic design. Go Ryan!
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2 weeks 3 days ago
eMUNICATIONS is proud to announce its new partnership with Acquia. Acquia was founded by Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead of the Drupal project, and Jay Batson, previously founder and CEO of Pingtel. The Acquia Network provides an operations portal to deliver technical support and site monitoring services to maintain trouble-free Drupal websites. Additionally, by offering commercial grade support from Acquia's Technical Assistance Center, they help organizations implement Drupal with confidence. After a lengthy application process eMUNICATIONS, was recently approved as a partner of Acquia. eMUNICATIONS one of only three approved Acquia Partners in the State of Texas and the only approved Acquia Partner in Houston. As a partner, eMUNICATIONS will have access to Acquia partner tools to leverage eMUNICATIONS' current Drupal knowledge further benefitting eMUNICATIONS' clients. Additionally, eMUNICATIONS will benefit from t... -
6 weeks 13 hours ago
Well it almost killed us but, we completed it! The Fort Bend Women's Center new website is up and functioning!WebAid 2010 is an event organized by eMUNICATIONS to benefit the Fort Bend Women's Center. The members of the Houston Drupal Users Group and the San Antonio Drupal Users Group generously donated their time to design, program and develop content for the new website. We all gathered in the Vineyard on The Square at 8:30 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, July 17, 2010 to begin our effort. The goal was to build a website in one day - a full featured website with a content management system (Drupal ofcourse!), shopping cart with credit card processing, photo galleries, calendars, news artical system, newsletter system, volunteer registration, event ticket sales and more... well, we did it. No small thanks to eMUNICATIONS' own Jason Smith and Ryan Martin. Kevin Croskrey Kevin formed eMUNICATIONS.com, Inc. to bring his experience in mark... -
7 weeks 3 days ago
Armed and dangerous, the emunications team set out on an arguably friendly game of paintball. Quality assurance teamed up with design for what we call, "shooting fish in a barrel" - and by fish, we mean Jason and Kevin. On just the second game, I spotted someone atop a building looking down on my teammates. That someone was Jason, who seconds later took a swift paintball to the face. Sure he was on the same team, but he's just a programmer - no need to fret. On the last game of the day, I took it upon myself to do what so few have had the opportunity to do... Vastly outnumbered, our team had to play smart. After a long exchange of fire between our two teams, I made an attempt at sneaking around the back of the enemy. Once in position, I saw an opportunity of a lifetime; there stood Kevin shooting back at my only remaining teammate. I took aim and fired. 4 welts later, Kevin was out. Alas, my team ended up losing the final game, but I left feeling like a winner (inser...
