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Shortcodes in Drupal? Yes, you can!

By Brianna Deleasa on March 20, 2013

Shortcodes are for embedding complex elements with very little effort.  They are perfect for users with little to no HTML knowledge.  Shortcodes are often used in Wordpress, but they can also be used in Drupal as well by creating a simple custom module.  We're going to walk through adding a custom [button] shortcode for Drupal 7.
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5 Tips to Stay Productive While Working From Home

By Brianna Deleasa on March 5, 2018

I’ve recently made a switch from the office life to working from home. It has been a great switch and I love the freedom and flexibility I have now. I thought I would share a few tips on how I stay productive and focused while working from home!
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4 Reasons You Should Transfer Your Site to SiteGround

By Brianna Deleasa on November 11, 2017

SiteGround is an excellent hosting provider, famous for their legendary customer support and premium service quality. Whether you have a blog, portfolio or e-commerce website, they have the perfect hosting plan to fit your needs.
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Deploying a Drupal 8 Website built with Composer to a Live Server

By Brianna Deleasa on October 6, 2017

Drupal is a powerful CMS, and pairing it with Composer makes downloading and updating modules so much easier. Deploying a Drupal website to a live server and specifying the correct directories to get the website working properly can be a bit tricky for newbies. I'm going to show you the few simple steps to accomplish this!
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Specifying Word Limits for Textareas in Contact Form 7

By Brianna Deleasa on March 24, 2016

Wordpress is a popular CMS with thousands of awesome free plugins. Contact Form 7 is a great free plugin that allows you to create forms for users to fill in and submit their information.  It's very flexible and allows you to highly customize each form.  It also has various built in field types such as email, phone number, and date fields. Recently I needed something I thought was rather simple - limiting the textarea field to X amount of words.

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10 Useful Wordpress Plugins

By Brianna Deleasa on January 17, 2015

Wordpress is a great CMS that is simple to set up, and it's easy for non-tech users to make changes to their website content.  As a web developer, I work with Wordpress a lot.  I've noticed that on a majority of the Wordpress websites I create, I find myself using the same plugins over and over.  I find that these plugins are extremely useful and I thought I would share them with you! Just note that these aren't in any particular order.
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Lazy Loading Images in Wordpress

By Brianna Deleasa on November 2, 2014

Lazy loading delays the loading of images until the user scrolls to them, which can help make your website load faster. I'm going to walk you through how to enable lazy loading images in your Wordpress theme with a few simple functions!
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