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A New Years Resolution for maintaining your Drupal site
So 2020 is in full swing, we are already midway through February and any new year’s resolutions you may have set yourself may have slipped … but why not set yourself a new resolution of keeping on top of your Drupal site maintenance? Even as a developer working with Drupal…Read article →Nathan's fix for Rabbit Hole
In case you're not aware, this year a bunch of us at CM are taking on a Drupal contribution challenge. Do go read about it!Read article →Sponsor work to improve Drupal for us all
We love making great websites, standing on the shoulders of the giants that have gone before us to make Drupal what it is today. Thousands of working hours from fantastic people around the world have gone into producing this digital experience platform. Many of those gave…Read article →New Language Hierarchy release for Drupal 8
Do you want to reach more markets and people? Do you want to tailor your content for clients from a range of locations around the world, without having to manage every single translation? Then the Language Hierarchy project could be for you! I wrote a while ago about how this…Read article →Slack
What is it?Read article →Making product images consistent with image styles
We’ve recently given the dimplex.co.uk site a new face lift and stumbled across an interesting problem during development when it came to implementing the new product carousel on their product pages, more specifically, the handling of the images themselves.Read article →Preparing your website for Black Friday
Does your site have an online store? Are you looking to have sales on during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period? Then read on - here are some quick tips to help you make the most of the sales period by ensuring that everything goes as smoothly as possible to make sure…Read article →A decade of Drupal
Last month I begun my second decade of working with Drupal! How crazy is that? I started at ComputerMinds in 2009. Drupalcon Paris was my first week on the job - I just remember taking so many notes, as if it were a university course! I had a lot to learn then, but now I can…Read article →ComputerMinds Rebrand: Business Cards
Over the past few months ComputerMinds has undergone a complete rebrand, most noticeably our website has been migrated to Drupal 8 and had a facelift so that it follows our new branding guidelines. But a new logo, colour scheme and aesthetic is only part of the work, we’ve also…Read article →Meet Chris
Chris is another one of our Senior Minds, not in age but in experience. The kind of person you want with you at a quiz but not if you don't want to know the ending to the latest movies!Read article →Meet Christian
Meet Christian. Our formula 1 nerd, music loving, hugely competitive Drupal developer.Read article →Meet Irina
Irina is our female ninja developer. When she is not working on her exquisite garden she can be found working hard on our Bluetree platform.Read article →Meet James
James is another one of our very experienced developers and he is our multi-linguistic expert, although to be fair, he is a dab hand at most things Drupal. Go to him with your language-related questions or if you want to know anything about football, we're pretty sure he knows…Read article →Meet Jen
Meet Jen, the orchestrator of the Meet the Team series. She is the CM tea maker, I mean apprentice, and is learning back-end coding on the job but also supports us with some admin, editing and testing.Read article →Meet Nathan
Meet Nathan. Nathan is our youngest Mind, the cheerful, plant-loving Mind who has everything you could ever need on his desk.Read article →Meet Ross
Ross is our car loving, food eating fitness enthusiast. Learn more about him here.Read article →Meet Steven
Steven is our ComputerMinds genius. There's rarely a problem he can't fix, probably due to his wealth of experience in the Drupal world.Read article →ComputerMinds Away Day to the Malverns
At ComputerMinds we work out of two offices, one in Bristol and another in Coventry so every now and then it’s important for us to get the whole team together to share ideas. When we meet we try to do this away from the office environment for a change of scenery, in the second…Read article →ComputerMinds do GatsbyJS!
Here at ComputerMinds, we think of ourselves as Drupal specialists for the UK, but we don't limit ourselves to that. We offer clients a close working relationship and our general flexibility to get stuck into applying our skills to most problems. One of our clients, Alfresco,…Read article →10 Interesting Drupal Modules
Drupal is lucky to benefit from a very active community of developers meaning that there is a wide and varied range of contributed modules to extend the functionality of Drupal core. In this article we’ll take a quick look at 10 interesting contributed modules; some are well…Read article →Boost your speed with lazy images
Websites need to look pretty and be blazing fast. That often means lots of beautiful high-quality images, but they can be pretty enormous to download, making the page slow to load. Images are often one of the 'heaviest' parts of a website, dragging a visitor's experience down…Read article →Meet Mike
Mike is our MasterMind. The Boss. Leader of all the ComputerMinds. We asked him a few questions to find out a bit more about him....Read article →Upgrading your website to Drupal 8 or 9
Update: Since writing this article the EOL of Drupal 7 has been extended from November 2021 until November 2022.Read article →Notifying our clients about security updates for Drupal Core
Drupal receives security updates several times a year, and we always apply them as soon as possible. Since Drupal security issues can make the headlines, it's important that site owners know that their site is secure and up to date - it provides for peace of mind and for pride…Read article →Let's talk
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