Ideas & Insights
Building a Digital Donation Campaign on a Timeline
“Isovera was very responsive to our urgent need during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Since the first call with Isovera to discuss the project, they immediately shifted priorities and resources to ensure they could leverage our existing platform to deliver…
How to Post Sitewide Alerts for COVID-19
Imagine your CEO walks into your office and says, “We need to put an alert message on every page of the website, and we need to do it today.”, could you? Over the past few weeks, there has been a tremendous amount of activity centered on conveying important…
Slack Hacks to Improve Your Focus
Focus is the most important asset a programmer has. Without focus, we waste time and produce low quality code. Unfortunately our job responsibilities often don’t take this into account. We have many demands on our time.
Drupal 7 End of Life… What Does it Mean?
Greg Stout's quick list of answers to commonly asked questions he's hearing from our clients and peers.Q: Drupal 7 End of Life, what does it mean? If you built your website on Drupal in the past few years there is a good chance that you are running on Drupal 7 or...
10 Clues That Your Drupal Site Might Be A Hot Mess
At Isovera, we generally focus on two major concepts: Has your website been built using general software/web development best practices? How advanced was the developer’s Drupal-specific expertise? Now, without further ado, here is a “Top 10” list.
Quick Wins for a Faster Website
How often have you heard the adage “you only get one chance to make a first impression”? Well, this expands past human-to-human interaction; it holds true for a human-to-website interaction too! In fact, when it comes to a website, not only do you get one chance to...
Handling HTML With Drupal’s Migrate API
Drupal 8, we use the core Migrate API for Upgrading Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 sites Migrating sites from other systems to Drupal Recurring imports from external systems (feeds) It is a robust, flexible tool. Drupal works best with structured data, and the Migrate API...
DevOps for Presentations: Top Tools
I have been looking for an easy way to generate presentations or slide decks. I am pretty happy with the system I have now. These tools make it possible to create organized, visually compelling, and informative presentations (but do not guarantee it).
3 Ways to Implement TypeScript
TypeScript is great -you get static type-checking, ECMAScript features yet to be supported by browsers, and excellent IntelliSense features. So how do we go about implementing this awesome language into one of our projects? Well there’s a few ways! First, though, we...
Build it Your way With Lando, Docker, and Drupal
My first post in this series, Getting started with Lando, Docker, and Drupal, I explained my favorite method to download and install Drupal locally. I will not repeat the system requirements and how to install Docker and Lando, so check that post if needed. Same...
Going Nuclear with Your Website Branding and Design
Style guides demonstrate to clients, stakeholders, and other disciplines that there’s a lot of really thoughtful work going into a website’s design and development beyond just “Hey, let’s make a new website.” — Brad Frost Every Thursday, Isovera hosts a lively...
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a CMS
How familiar are you with Drupal? What about Wordpress? Wix? Adobe Experience Manager? Microsoft Sharepoint? Kentico? How familiar are you with Content Management Systems (online platforms that allow content admins to edit content…