Category Development

Icon Fonts, Planes & Browsers-What's Missing?

Articles relating to the magic of icon fonts are being published at an ever increasing rate. They have various methods of getting their ideas across, but the general theme revolves around ease of implementation, and efficacy when used in responsive development. No longer do us designers have to worry about exporting multiple versions of our icons. This can now all be done by code. Need to adjust the colour? CSS. Need to change the size? CSS. Need to swap out an icon? ...well, you get the point.

Better responsive design workflow with Drupal

Things have been changing quickly over the last couple of years when it comes to designing and building websites that are optimized for mobile, tablet & desktop. While dedicated mobile sites and apps still have their use cases, responsive web design is more often than not where we land after establishing a multi-platform web strategy.   Problems with our traditional workflow   When we first started designing responsive websites we typically worked within our established workflows.

Drupal Module of the Week: Values

A while back, a client asked how they could add an item to a select list on one of their content types. At the time the options in the select list were managed by the allowed values field on the field settings form (using the key|value syntax). I definitely didn't want to give the client permissions to edit content types. So what do I do? Do I use taxonomy? I was actually specifically not using taxonomy in this case. I didn't need any of the extra overhead that comes along with it (term listing pages, fields, entity bloat etc).

Make your design functional

Design is hard. Making design work well is even harder. Being completely enveloped in the wide world of web design has made me rather comfortable with being a critic of not only design decisions of others, but a harsh critic of what I produce. It's incredibly comforting to know that this dilemma is not just ours to suffer with. Stepping away from the internet and taking the time to examine just how other industries face the same issues.

8 Modules Commerce Kickstart Didn't Include But Should Be On Your Commerce Site

Here at Fuse, we've been working on a few commerce projects lately. We've been using Commerce Kickstart as the base for some projects and customize to meet client business requirements. By using Kickstart, we no longer need to download a long list of modules and configure them individually, it saves us many hours of work and save money for our clients. For users that are new to Drupal, and want to have an online store, Commerce Kickstart is great.

Automatic Sass Imports with Sass Globbing

pre { font-size: 15px; } .node aside { font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1.5em; } /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ If you're using Sass to preprocess your stylesheets, you've probably discovered partials. A partial is a sub-stylesheet, intended to be included as part of a main stylesheet rather than being processed into its own file.