On the Trail Blog

Our fearless founders, Steve and Mike, will be contributing to a panel discussion on Thursday, August 26th, as part of Concentrate's Speaker Series. The focus is on young entrepreneurs in Michigan, and why they decided to start their companies in Ann Arbor.

Adding a custom region to any Drupal theme is fairly easy. For this example, I'm working within a Zen Ninesixty subtheme. I decided that instead of just using the right sidebar, I wanted to have a custom region inside the main content area so that the text would wrap around whatever I placed here. (By default, the main content area does not wrap around left or right sidebars.)

It's been a very productive summer for us at Switchback. We've recently launched several projects, with more waiting in the wings. Most notably:

Caravan, built on CiviCRM, is a great customer relationship management system. Being open source means that it is a continual work in progress and it's constantly being improved, but it also means that if a specific feature doesn't exist yet, we need to find creative ways to do things!

When it came to WYSIWYG Editor Input Formats,  there was always a great divide between Filtered HTML and Full HTML. Full HTML is intended for admin use only because it allows any HTML tags and attributes to be used. The Filtered HTML format lets authenticated and/or anonymous users add content safely by limiting the allowed HTML tags that could potentially be harmful to the site, or to the design. 

Building out a complex Drupal website can often lead to a tangled web of content types, modules, permissions and views. To keep track of it all, we’ve developed a handy tool we call the “User/Feature Matrix”. It’s a straightforward spreadsheet that guides us through planning, development, and QA, ensuring our clients get everything on their wish list.