SEO Tips: The Importance of a 301 Redirect

The 301 Redirect A 301 redirect is a command used to tell the search engines that a page has permanently moved, and that you want them to index the new page and drop the old one from their index. In layman’s terms if you create or redesign a new website if you change the name …

Three things I learned at DrupalCamp NJ

Tonight, I’m heading to the Central NJ Drupal Meetup where the organizers have posed the question of “Three things I learned at DrupalCamp NJ” to be answered in a series of five minute lightning talks.  OK, I’m game to participate, here are three things that I have been thinking about… 1) Ray Saltini of Blink …

Getting stoked for DrupalCamp NJ

Leon Rainbow and I will be attending DrupalCamp NJ this Saturday at Princeton University.  I think this is the fourth iteration of the event, and I know we’ve attended at least the last three camps.  For me, it is a good chance to get out and see new perspectives on using Drupal and get an …

Create unordered and ordered lists that have different colored “dots”

A client asked us to design an ordered list that the dots were blue squares and the text was black. We looked through several examples some using special characters or graphics to replace the dot but we wanted to keep the unordered list structure intact. So we found an answer via http://www.echoecho.com/csslists.htm. Below is how we created the list …

Fixing HTML5 Video Portrait Orientation with Adobe Media Encoder

Ran across an issue today with HTML5 video tags and Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows.  According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer (and I think any other browser running on Windows) will automatically orient the image based on the metadata of the device used to record it.  Supposedly, this would mean that if you record a …

How to Embed a Video Using HTML5

About HTML5 Video via w3schools.com/ Before HTML5, there was no standard for showing videos on a web page. Before HTML5, videos could only be played with a plug-in (like flash). The HTML5 <video> element specifies a standard way to embed a video in a web page. Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari support …

Microsoft replaces blogging service with WordPress?!?

Microsoft recently switched users from their own blogging site to WordPress.com, a blogging service powered by the popular WordPress blogging/Content Management System (CMS) software. What is notable about this development to me is that Worpress is an “open source” project written in the non-Microsoft, PHP scripting language. There are several other takeaways from this development: The move …

Drupal and Agile Development

I came across a presentation by Dustin Currie from Level Ten Interactive in Dallas, Texas on the topic of Drupal Agency Processes. I’ve embeded the video and included my notes on his presentation. Mr. Currie states that human interactions are the key challenges to Web development. These include stating expectations, determining what needs to be done, etc. It is this …