Friday 5: 5 Scars from Sass

Happy Friday, everybody! This episode we talk to Theme Manager Zack Hawkins about some of his pain points of using the Sass preprocessor. It's like therapy, but without the couch.

Things that keep Zack up at night include:

  1. Naming Color Variables
  2. Third Party Libraries
  3. Too Many Mixins
  4. Using Extends
  5. Dynamic Selectors
  6. Clowns (Actually that's me)

Friday 5: 5 Minutes on Configuring Your Drupal Site

We made it to the end of another busy work week! Welcome back to Episode 4 of The Mediacurrent Friday 5.

This week, Drupal Developer Ryan Gibson spends 5 Minutes on Configuring Your Drupal Site. With the release of Drupal 8, there are tons of new features to be excited about. One of them being configuration management, or how changes are tracked and controlled in Drupal. 

Watch the video below to learn more about how to handle configuration management in Drupal 7 and 8.

Friday 5: 5 Benchmarks for Selecting a Digital Agency

Welcome back to the third episode of The Mediacurrent Friday 5!

This week, Managing Partner Paul Chason discusses 5 Benchmarks for Selecting a Digital Agency. Choosing an agency to trust with your most valuable digital asset, your website, is not something to take lightly. With years of experience in talking to organizations during their search for a new agency, he provides some key indicators to look for.

Watch the video below to learn more about Pricing, Team Size and Process, Listening for "No" More Than "Yes," Mission, and Successful History.

Video: Metatag 1.5

With meta tags still being important for search engine optimization and improving how content looks when shared via social networks like Facebook and Twitter, it's worth learning how to use Drupal's Metatag module the right way. Let me show you how a site can benefit from using meta tags, then find out about the latest improvements, along with recommendations on how to get it set up correctly for your site.

Exploring the Picture Element Module (Part 2)

It has been an interesting week since I wrote part 1 of this blog series. For one, more people have been talking about the <picture> element and that is a good thing because the more we talk about it the more attention is brought to an issue that is due for best practices and standards. Second, more people are experimenting with the <picture> element and this is also good because the more input and feedback we get the better at determining whether this is the way to go or we should move on to something else.