Blogs on Will Hall Online

Like any digital business, we’ve got a lot of online acccounts.

Yesterday saw us launch a new Wordpress plugin which enables site builders to easily install the Shoprocket ecommerce system (http://shoprocket.co) on their sites.

Mailchimp is a fantastic service that makes creating and sending HTML emails fast and easy.

When building a new website, SEO can sometimes be a bit of an afterthought, coming in after design, user experience, functionality, and a host of other considerations.

We’re excited to announce that our Shoprocket Drupal project has been accepted by the community.

We’ve been using the Sass preprocessor for a little while now and it’s undoubtedly a brilliant tool for expanding the power of CSS while also making it more maintainable.

We’ve moved… Hallneg Limited are now located at Bellingham House in the heart of St Neots on the corner of Huntingdon Street and Cambridge Street.

Making a custom block in Drupal, something other than a block with a title and body which is already core functionality, is something that we often end up doing when integrating services from other locations to control the display of some data.

We’re starting some exciting new Drupal projects for customers over the next few weeks, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to share with everybody what contributed modules we’re downloading for all our new sites, and why.

At Will Hall Online, we love Sass for making our CSS more powerful and streamlined.

This week we’ve found a new technique for creating semi-transparent css only buttons from list items, which become opaque when hovered over.

We’ve recently been trying some new modules and techniques for giving our clients’ content editors, some of whom like to describe themselves as “non-techies”, more control over the layout of their content.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been genning up on their already pretty solid Google Analytics knowledge in order to take the Analytics certification exam on the Google partners site.

This week at Will Hall Online we’ve been building a system on one of our sites which periodically tweets a link to an existing piece of content, along with some custom text, a description and hashtags.

Our latest Ansible adventure has been the creation of a task structure which we can use to easily manage multiple Drupal websites on multiple servers.

This Monday I had the privilege of giving my first talk at the Drupal Cambrdige meetup (@drupalcambs).

We recently attended the Huntingdon Business Fair and were really pleased to see both the variety and strength of the business community inside Huntingdonshire and the surrounding area.

As of the 21st April 2015, Google’s page ranking algorithm will penalise websites which aren’t mobile friendly.

Performance is one of our key goals in any web project.

More Ansible goodness this week.

Three months ago, we were introduced to the wonders of Ansible at Drupal Camp Brighton.

An interesting problem we’ve faced recently was that one one of our sites, our FlexNav based mobile menus were being forced to display even on large devices when advanced css aggregation was switched on.

By default, Flot with the Flot categories plugin doesn’t allow for you to use the ticks or tickSize option to show less ticks when there are too many data points on the x-axis for all of the labels to fit.

Recently we’ve been working on updating our clients page, which required us to think, for the first time in a while, “what do people want from a clients page?”.

At Will Hall Online, we’ve recently started using the Geany IDE for Linux, and as there doesn’t seem to have been a great amount written about, it, we thought we’d share some of our first impressions of the program.

Alongside developing lots of different websites in Drupal, we also maintain and administer a number of different servers.

Most Drupal Commerce sites, one would think, are likely to want to send emails to their customers detailing the contents and total cost of their order for confirmation purposes.

We ran into this error PHP Warning: Error while sending QUERY packet.

In 2014, Will Hall Online took on several new members of staff and undertook several of its biggest projects yet.

All sorts of fun this week at Will Hall Online trying to use the Drupal Commerce Feeds module to import several hundred images on to a site.

For a recent project, a client wanted us to create a carousel style display of product images which could be cycled through using a panel of thumbnails immediately underneath, or by back and forward buttons.

For a recent project, we’ve been trying to find an easy way of allowing our client’s staff members to create and edit content using a WYSIWYG editor.

Just a quick code snippet here.

Will Hall Online are excited to announce that we will now be offering both development AND design in house from March 2014.

We are pleased to welcome two fantastic additions to the team at Will Hall Online.

As a follow up to my previous post on Drupal 6 Post Migration Data Clean Up, I thought that a follow up for Drupal 7 would be useful.

As I am sure most of you are aware, spam, in the case of unsolicited advertising or off-topic posting as opposed to the processed meat, and bots, the ones that remotely attempt to do stuff on your site, are two of the largest problems for any website that…

Getting accurate details from users about the setup of their system can be difficult.

Recently I have been building a ticketing system in Drupal, which allows logged in users to create support tickets and administrators to comment on them, change them between statuses and close them.

I thought that a retrospective at DrupalCamps (not sure whether those words should be joined or not?)

There are lots of details online about how to create and edit web pages/sites and how to make things look pretty, however, there is a lot less about how to get things working nicely on servers be them development or live servers.

Getting the right amount of visual attractiveness and common interface into a site, so as to make it easy for a user, can be a difficult path to tread.

Recently I have been doing quite a few more system administrator tasks around different office.

Recently I have been working with Drupal Commerce quite a bit, however, it can be difficult to get your views to display as required, especially as there is no way to specifically select the product entity inside views.

Rules is a module to do causation in Drupal.

Will Hall Online has featured in the Anglia Ruskin University Alumni magazine for our work with Integro Languages.

Sometimes, keeping files as hard copy, or just being able to move things in and around using csv files or such like can be great.

This is part 2 (or a re-visit) of a previous blog post (Drupal Post Migration Data Cleanup) on updating content after moving it to another domain .

How to resolve “An AJAX HTTP request terminated abnormally” error on Drupal?

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