Cms

Mobile web development in 2013 is a mess of browser quirks, viewport headaches, and CSS bugs that multiply with every platform you touch. I built the Mobile Boilerplate theme for Drupal 7 to stop reinventing the wheel every time I needed a mobile-ready starting point. It’s a collection of fixes, polyfills, and sensible defaults that handle the boring stuff so you can focus on building something that works. What’s in it The theme ships with a bunch of things you’d otherwise spend an afternoon Googling: ...

After building and maintaining CMS sites for a while, here are the things I’ve learned the hard way. Don’t run your site from the root directory. Put the CMS in a subdirectory and forward requests there with .htaccess or whatever your server supports. It keeps the CMS files out of the way and makes it harder for someone to guess where things are. A small thing, but it helps. Be careful about advertising what CMS you’re running. ...