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!

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.

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!

Recently I needed something I thought was rather simple - limiting a Contact Form 7 textarea field to X amount of words. CF7 allows you to specify a character limit, but not a word limit. I've searched for another Wordpress plugin to add in this functionality, but the only plugin I've come across is outdated and doesn't work. I decided to create my own plugin to add in this functionality, and I figured I would share it with you!

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.

The speed of your website is very important.  Even a minor difference in page speed (either a second or two faster OR slower) dramatically changes whether a user will stay on your website.

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 shortcode for Drupal 7.