Create a Angular.js Headless Drupal 8 Application

Create a Angular.js Headless Drupal 8 Application

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 10, 2015

I go over the basics of setting up an Angular.js based application to serve a Headless Drupal 8 site. We will talk about serving Content, handling Sessions, and submitting form data.

An Introduction to Headless Drupal in Drupal 8

An Introduction to Headless Drupal in Drupal 8

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 8, 2015

There is a lot of buzz going around about Drupal 8 and Headless Drupal. I will be doing a deep dive into the concepts around Drupal 8 and going headless. In addition, I hope to outline some style guides and best practices when building a headless CMS so that you can take full advantage of the new features in Drupal 8 and connect it with one of the awesome Front-End technologies available.

Mad Men Lessons that Actually work

Mad Men Lessons that Actually work!

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 6, 2015

We go over a couple of lessons that can be learned from Mad Men and applied to your everyday marketing efforts.

Powered Up Ecommerce: Introducing Inbound Marketing

Powered Up Ecommerce: Introducing Inbound Marketing

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 5, 2015

What is Inbound Marketing? It is a new keyword being used in a lot of the Sales and Marketing circles, but today we go into a bit about what it is and how it can be used to increase your store's revenue.

Launching a Ecommerce Site: Guide to your Home page

Launching a Ecommerce Site: Guide to your Home page

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 4, 2015

We kick off our new series with the page where everything starts. We go over the importance of your home page and how to optimize it in order to optimize your revenue.

Powered Up Ecommerce Series: Inbound Marketing Delight your Customers

Powered Up Ecommerce Series: Inbound Marketing Delight your Customers

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 4, 2015

Now that you have the customer, your work has just started in building a long-term relationship that is beneficial to your customer and profitable for you business. In this post, we will go over the last phase of inbound marketing, Delight.

Going Camping! Drupal Camp Cebu 2015

Going Camping! Drupal Camp Cebu 2015

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 2, 2015

Everyone ready for a camping trip, next week we will be in Cebu, Philippines presenting on Headless Drupal 8.

Supercharge your Blog Series: Google Adsense How to get approved

Supercharge your Blog Series: Google Adsense How to get approved

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 31, 2015

Now that you know the math behind Google's Adsense program, how do you go about getting your website or blog approved for the program? We will go over the steps you need to take to make sure your application process is quick and hassle-free.

Powered Up Ecommerce: Hacking Local Markets

Powered Up Ecommerce: Hacking Local Markets

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 30, 2015

Are you looking for a way to hack your local market to increase traffic and customers to your website? We go over a couple of tips that you can use in order to increase inbound traffic from your local market and what things to do today to start seeing results.

Powered Up Ecommerce: Why Your site needs Landing Pages

Powered Up Ecommerce: Why Your site needs Landing Pages

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 29, 2015

Landing Pages, some of us love them, and many of us hate them.  Learn why if your an awesome marketer, these pages are one of the best items in your toolbox when it comes to online marketing and generating leads for an ecommerce site.

Supercharge your Blog Series: Making Sense out of Google AdSense

Supercharge your Blog Series: Making Sense out of Google AdSense

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 28, 2015

If you're looking to start generating advertising revenue from your blog, you have most likely heard of Google Adwords.  We will be going over the numbers of how a Google Adsense program would work for your blog and how much money you could expect to earn, and how much traffic you would need in order to make it worth your efforts.

Supercharge your Blog Series: Earn money Blogging

Supercharge your Blog Series: Earn money Blogging

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 26, 2015

Regardless of what your blogging about many bloggers always come to the question, how can I make a living by blogging or at the very least recover my costs for my blog? This week we will walk through this very complex topic.

Supercharge your Blog Series: Reporting tools for your blog

Supercharge your Blog Series: Reporting tools for your blog

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 21, 2015

This week we go over a couple of the most powerful and widely used tools to analyze and track your traffic. We will talk about how to better track how people are going to share and favorite your article across social networks, and how you can learn to respond better to your audience in order to grow it and grow sponsor revenue.

Supercharge your Blog Series: Tips on displaying a image gallery

Supercharge your Blog Series: Tips on displaying a image gallery

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 18, 2015

Often times I have come across some blogs that have a lot of really great images to go along with the post.  Often times bloggers struggle to be able to show these images in a way that does not cause a cluttered look on the web page.  So in this post, I am going to go over a couple of the ways that you can display graphical content like this in a way that will not put off your readers, and will give you space to still show off the art.

The Power of Behat and Selenium2 for BDD

The Power of Behat and Selenium2 for BDD

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 17, 2015

There is currently a movement towards including Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) in the Agile Process.  This can be best achieved by marrying Behat, an open source behavior-driven development framework, with Selenium2, best known for creating Quality Assurance Tests for various web applications.

What Are Content Types and Fields?

Common Drupal Terminology for 2020

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 17, 2015

One of the first things that can confuse most new users of Drupal or any CMS for that matter is Content Types or in Wordpress Post types.

WebForm2Sugar

WebForm2Sugar

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 16, 2015

In our last post, I talked about using Webform and Webform Protected Downloads in order to create a lead capture form for your website.  In this post, we will talk about connecting your Lead capter form to SugarCRM in order to keep track of all of those leads in a system developed around Marketing to leads.  You will need to download the Webform2Sugar module and you will need to already have a SugarCRM site installed, you can use the Community Edition or the Enterprise Edition of SugarCRM for this.

Create Download Capture Forms in Drupal 7

Create Download Capture Forms in Drupal 7

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 15, 2015

One of the most useful tools for building inbound leads and engaging with potential customers is the Capture form.  This is a simple utility that is used in order to get a customer to provide details about themselves in exchange for a download of some sort.  The download could be a PDF, an application, or image.  Regardless of what it is this can be accomplished pretty easily using Drupal 7's Webform module and the Webform Protected Downloads module.

Getting Started with Agile and BDD

Getting Started with Agile and BDD

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on October 15, 2015

These days there is a lot of talk about Agile Development workflow cycles and there is also a lot of talk about Behavioral Driven Development(or BDD for short).  The two can seem to be contradictory, but if the techniques from both are applied properly they can yield big savings in development time and help improve the end result code for a site.  In this article, I am going to go over briefly some of the steps that can be used during Agile when you want your development team to use BDD techniques when delivering a product.