"A picture is worth more than a thousand words". True, but a large picture will make your webpage slower, which will affect your SEO in a negative way. And eat away at your servers space, megabyte after megabyte. There are several ways to remedy such a behaviour, but one way is to use image compression services to save space. With online services or programs on your computer you can remove unnecessary information and compress images with sometimes up to 80% gain. Here I'm going to show you how to integrate the TinyPNG service in your Drupal installation which automatically compresses your images. TinyPNG There are many different services on the internet… Read more...
Whether RSS has a future or not is debateable, but I often find myself removing the standard RSS icon in Drupal, sometimes for good or sometimes for just placing a nicer version of the classic icon somewhere else in my theme, linked to the RSS feed. In Drupal, like with so many other things, there are several ways of removing the RSS icon in the theme. I'm going to show you the way that I have found to be the easiest and the way that also sticks when you're trying out, or switching to a new theme. The frontpage of Drupal where we automatically is served an RSS icon with a link to the feed.Sure, you can remove the icon in the theme you're putting together,… Read more...
Not only did DrupalEurope in Darmstadt a couple of weeks ago give me the opportunity to learn more about Drupal and meet old friends and community members - it was also the new start of coming back to doing a pod again. The Drupal pod Drupalsnack has been on hold for a year when I wrote a book about old commercials found in comic books during the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. But when the book now is printed and can be found in stores - it's time to go back to recording a pod. And the first episode is about DrupalEurope. Me and my podcast colleague Kristoffer took the opportunity to interview Michael Miles who came all the way from Boston, USA, to visit… Read more...
When I moved my blog into Drupal 8 the summer of 2016 I used the theme Bootstrap Clean Blog which have a nice big photo on top of every article. That increased my need of good stock photos, so i started out to look for good resources. This is a list of the sites I found and use for all my needs. Sites with photos that need no attribution* https://pixabay.com Over 740,000 pictures. vectors and illustrations. https://picjumbo.com/ A site created by someone whose photos was rejected by the big stockphoto sites. Lucky for us, that only spurred him on to do something about it. His project became picjumbo. http://morguefile.com/ Morguefile is a free photo… Read more...
Ever since Drupal 7 I've used GIT to keep track of both my personal repos as the ones the company I work for manage. In short, I use GIT quite a lot. A colleague of mine use GIT to keep track of his computer setup so he easily can pull down his settings and .profile whenever he chooses to reinstall his computer or get a new one. I've heard of a guy (or girl, can't remember) who use GIT to keep track of all his documents. That seems a bit handful, but GIT is wonderful to keep track of the changes in your, for example, Drupal repo. And even if I've used GIT for so long, I'm still learning new stuff about GIT and it makes my daily work even better and more… Read more...