Emunciations Blog
5 years 8 months 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...
5 years 9 months ago
In terms of aesthetics, design is by and large a tool to convey a message to your users. Are you a large company? Are you professional? Do you have a sense of humor? Or simply (and most importantly), “What is it that you do?” These are all questions that will be answered for your users in fewer than 5 seconds of viewing your website, so it’s important you’re sending the right message. Just...
5 years 10 months ago
If you haven't taken the time to check out this framework you absolutely must do so now. jQuery allows you to accomplish so much more with so much little. It may be a little arcane to look at the first time, but after a little research, you'll wonder how you lived without it. Case in point, here's a quick script to add zebra highlighting to a table with id 'myTable'.
// Do zebra highlighting...
5 years 12 months ago
For a recent site, we needed to have a menu block be visible on pages which were represented in the menu. That is to say, if the page you are looking at is in the "Editorial stuff" menu, display the editorial stuff menu block.
The trick here is to use PHP for determining the block visibility for the menu blocks. If we're looking at a node derivative, the node id should be in the link_path...
6 years 3 weeks ago
A common problem that I see when working with non-table views is dynamic sorting. It seems as if there's no easy way to make use of the sort functionality that views provides without using the table style. This is the method that I use to get around the problem. I'm not the first to do it this way, and I'm also not convinced it's the easiest way to do it. But it does work and we've used it...
6 years 2 months ago
Well it almost killed us but, we completed it! The Fort Bend Women's Center new website is up and functioning! Take a look at FBWC.org. 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...
6 years 2 months 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-...
6 years 4 months ago
WebAid 2010 is an event sponsored by eMUNICATIONS.com, Inc., to benefit the Fort Bend Women's Center. This year's event will be held at the Vineyard on the Square in the Sugar Land Town Square on July 17.
With the generous help of the Houston Drupal Users Group, we are going to design, program and launch a full-featured website with an ecommerce store in just one day. In addition to...
6 years 5 months ago
Here's another quick one,
We recently had a client report that they received a PCI violation because Drupal login forms do not feature the "autocomplete=off" attribute. This could be fixed with a custom template, or hacking core (!!!) but I whipped up this quick module to fix it instead, so that I wouldn't have to worry about issues integrating with client templates and could...
6 years 6 months 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...