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Hi, we're ComputerMinds.

We're a leading UK Drupal agency with offices in Bristol and Coventry. We offer high quality, rapid Drupal development, extensive Drupal end-user and Drupal developer training, and can share all our experience through our Drupal consultancy.

We do Drupal for big-name brands

We do Drupal for big-name brands

Development

ComputerMinds have been responsible for some of the most exciting Drupal projects of the last few years. We can help deliver your Drupal project on time and on budget.

Drupal for Design Agencies

At ComputerMinds we're used to working alongside design agencies so if a client has come your way and you're after some help realising your design in Drupal then let us implement your design as a high quality, fully client manageable Drupal website.

Consultancy

ComputerMinds have acted as Drupal consultants for clients large and small. Our Drupal architects and consultants love to share their knowledge and experience.

Training

ComputerMinds offer high quality Drupal training courses in the UK, and we are happy to tailor bespoke training courses to suite your needs

“Seriously I know how difficult it is to do a big change like this and deliver on time in a totally seamless fashion. Because of the brand name change we had no flexibility as it was timed with press stuff, it was very important to us.

So I really appreciate your combined efforts in making it work out.

….And this why I continue to be your happy customer for so long”

Taig Karanjia

Rex London / dotcomgiftshop

Latest Work

We work with large and small clients across the public, private and third sectors.

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Roberts Radio

On this project the client wanted a rich eCommerce website with multilingual support. Modern and engaging designs were provided by Thinking Juice who we would work alongside as the project progressed. In addition to the actual build of the eCommerce website we also had to think about how we would integrate with the client's backend ERP system, System 21.

Speed of delivery was a key requirement with this project and we managed to complete the entire build in less than two months!
On this project we made extensive use of modern frontend technologies. The style was all nicely written using SASS to keep our style sheets nice and tidy. We worked with the design agency Thinking Juice who drew up the initial designs which we would then use to drive our frontend development.

Once we had all the page elements themed up to match the design it was then necessary to add a bit of jQuery magic to make the user experience much more engaging. This applied from major elements such as the drop down menus right the way through to navigation between elements on the same page using a scroll effect.

In order to give the client maximum control over how their content pages rendered we used a system of 'tiles' which are essentially distinct reusable elements that could be used to build up an entire webpage. As each of these elements has its own associated style to control how it looks and feels this approach meant that the client could just focus on adding in the content and the website would take care of how this got rendered to the end user to ensure things are nice and consistent across the website.

As an eCommerce website it was really important on this project that we gave maximum control to the end user to allow them to find products that they might want to purchase. A key part of this was to create a product comparison tool which would allow users to select a number of different Roberts products for a side by side comparison.

From the product search page users can filter down their search criteria using a number of different facets and when they're ready they can select a number of different products to compare. Once they have selected the products they want to compare the user is taken to a a page which renders the selected products side by side for easy comparison.

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Meet Andrei

Great to have you as part of the team Andrei!

How are you finding working at ComputerMinds so far?

Working at ComputerMinds feels like a beautiful dream.  The work is exciting with quite a steep learning curve but having great colleagues for support and mentoring helps a lot. 

Do you drink tea or coffee? 

I am a 2 coffees a day kinda guy when I'm working but otherwise I enjoy a cuppa whenever I need to keep warm or need a tasty drink. 

Tell us an interesting fact about yourself.

23rd Nov 2022

Allow editors to use HTML attributes by default

Drupal provides an excellent sanitisation system to filter the HTML content that editors might create. Think of it like a series of traffic cops that filter different vehicles into different lanes. Some content is allowed through to its destination, some has to be transformed along the way, and some is simply blocked from displaying. Administrators can use the 'Limit allowed HTML tags and correct faulty HTML' option to configure which HTML elements and attributes they can use.

26th Oct 2022

PhpStorm coding tip for Drupal services

Here's a super simple tip to help you work with services for Drupal in PhpStorm (our favourite IDE). First, ensure you have enabled the Drupal Symfony Bridge and Symfony Support plugins; they're brilliant for auto-complete suggestions, and navigating around services, controllers, annotations and twig templates! I find it so helpful to be able to cmd+click (or ctrl+click) on a service name, whether in a YAML definition, or PHP code, and jump straight to the service class. But I'd noticed that PhpStorm often didn't recognise the method used after my code referred to a service like this:

\Drupal::service('my_service')
  ->something($id);
29th Jun 2022

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