Drupal 8 Development

How to use Hooks for building Drupal 8 themes

Lindsey Gemmill — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 22:25:12 +0000

How to use Hooks for building Drupal 8 themes Lindsey Gemmill Fri, 01/31/2020 - 22:25

How to Streamline Update Hooks Using the Batch API

Lindsey Gemmill — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:45:49 +0000

How to Streamline Update Hooks Using the Batch API Lindsey Gemmill Tue, 12/10/2019 - 18:45

Ride into the Danger Zone: How to Update Drupal 8 Field Settings without Losing any Data

Michael Wojcik — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:15:11 +0000

Ride into the Danger Zone: How to Update Drupal 8 Field Settings without Losing any Data Michael Wojcik Thu, 10/10/2019 - 17:15

Reflections of Drupal Camp Chattanooga 2019

Lindsey Gemmill — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:11:43 +0000

Reflections of Drupal Camp Chattanooga 2019 Lindsey Gemmill Thu, 06/20/2019 - 15:11

Search and Facets and Queries, Oh My!

Lindsey Gemmill — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:24:23 +0000

Search and Facets and Queries, Oh My! Lindsey Gemmill Fri, 05/31/2019 - 15:24

Amphenol

Hook 42 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 01:00:48 +0000

Amphenol

Hook 42 Thu, 04/11/2019 - 01:00

Amphenol Corporation is a global leader in connectors, cables, and interconnect systems. Their products and services support multiple industries and globally distributed clients. Hook 42 implemented a Google Search Appliance replacement leveraging Elasticsearch and Scrapy to crawl, index, and display federated search results from over 100 of their corporate websites on the main Drupal 8 corporate website. The enterprise federated search project was completed on-time and on budget in a compressed schedule, creating a sound platform for ongoing search enhancements in the future.

Go Overseas

Hook 42 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:49:37 +0000

Go Overseas

Hook 42 Thu, 04/11/2019 - 00:49

Go Overseas provides a service to connect people with meaningful travel programs, such as volunteer, study, or teaching engagements in countries around the world. Go Overseas worked with Hook 42 for consulting and development for their Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 migration project. We also ran SEO health checks and continued, beyond the original engagement, to work with Go Overseas on performance monitoring and ongoing improvements to their site and its architecture.

Design Direction

Friendly, Easy-to-Use, Travel, Image-Rich, Mobile-Friendly

Technical Considerations

Large Migration, Maintain Existing Redesign, Time-Challenged, Custom CRM, Custom Cron Jobs, Maintain SEO, Large Development Team

Key Features

Custom User Workflows, Responsive Design, High-Traffic Landing Pages, Media and Document Management, Private Messaging and Chat, Custom Tools & Reports

Summary of Work

We audited their complex Drupal 6 site and estimated the effort to migrate it to Drupal 8. Under a very tight deadline, we provided Drupal 8 architectural guidance, migration code implementation, and both backend and frontend development. We also ran SEO health checks, executed the Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 migration scripts, and provided launch support during the site cutover.

We continue to work with Go Overseas on Drupal 8 architecture and development projects such as advanced landing page creation, file structure improvements, and performance monitoring and enhancements.

Marageti

Hook 42 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:41:31 +0000

Marageti

Hook 42 Thu, 04/11/2019 - 00:41

Marageti is an online travel agency with experts specializing in group tours and cruises. Marageti's parent company, Zicasso, focuses on customized luxury tours. Zicasso and Hook 42 have been working together since 2012. We helped Zicasso's Marageti team architect, build, and launch their Drupal 8 website to highlight their guided group tour and cruise vacations.

Stanford Cantor Arts Center

Hook 42 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:11:45 +0000

Stanford Cantor Arts Center

Hook 42 Thu, 04/11/2019 - 00:11

Founded in 1891, the Stanford Cantor Arts Center museum hosts an international collection of more that 38,000 works of art. Their previous website, built in 2006, was outdated and limited. Cantor selected Hook 42 to architect and develop their new responsive, component-based website using Drupal 8.

Design Direction

Beautiful, Image-Rich, Engaging, Modern, Responsive, Design Gap Remediation

Key Features

Rich Media Management, Respects Image Usage Rights, Component-Based Flexible Content Tools, Reusable Content, Event Importer, Modern Front-end Technologies

Summary of Work

Stanford Cantor Arts Center underwent a substantial redesign and needed a development partner to implement the site in Drupal 8. Hook 42 created a solid content strategy and toolkit for the small, non-technical content contributor team to artistically showcase their collections, exhibitions, and events. Our team leveraged web components and a solid pattern library to ensure the branding and display was consistent across pages, regardless of the configuration of the content components. In addition to the beautiful and responsive site, Hook 42 architected and developed a custom integration to the main Stanford events feed to automatically populate museum content on the site over time.

Read the UI Patterns Module article by Ryan Bateman that explores the use of the Drupal module leveraged for the websites modular content creation tools.

We analyzed the bold, photo-centric design to create a flexible, component-driven content strategy for a variety of possible layouts. We surveyed existing Drupal 8 contributed projects and the Stanford Web Services framework prototype to determine the best architecture. We created an automated tool for pulling in Cantor-specific events from the main Stanford events feed while allowing for content customization. In the end, Hook 42 built a successful and robust website for the Cantor Arts Center that simplified content entry while providing great flexibility for showcasing their outstanding art collection.

We continue to help the Cantor team by providing ongoing Drupal 8 maintenance and support. You can learn more about this project by watching the 2019 DrupalCon case study presentation.

Reviewing the Work

We held discussions to highlight the thought leadership involved in each step of the process, reviewing key pieces of the project that would be valuable to the Drupal community.

A Cantor Arts Center website case study presentation was delivered by the team at Stanford Drupal Camp 2018. Later, at BADCamp 2018, Kristen Pol and Ryan Bateman presented on the topic. Following the BADCamp presentation was yet another discussion by Kristen Pol and Ryan Bateman at DrupalCon 2019.

National Nurses United

Hook 42 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:05:00 +0000

National Nurses United

Hook 42 Wed, 04/10/2019 - 21:05

National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest organization of registered nurses in the United States. Its website provides a service to connect regional Registered Nurses organizations and unite future, current, and retired nurses to support humanitarian and political causes. NNU selected Hook 42 for their ExpressionEngine to Drupal 8 migration project in a very tight timeline.

Design Direction

Brand adherence, Design “refresh”, Responsive, Interactive, Engaging, User-Friendly, High Conversion, Accessible

Technical Considerations

Custom Data Structure Migration, Enable New Content Structures From Redesign, Time-Challenged, Custom CRM integration, Maintain SEO, Large File Footprint

Key Features

ExpressionEngine to Drupal 8 migration, Display of historic content with fresh updates, Improvements for User Experience, Blue State Digital CRM Integration

Summary of Work

We audited their custom ExpressionEngine implementation from their past hosting provider and estimated the effort to migrate it to Drupal 8. We provided a scalable content strategy, Drupal 8 architecture and implementation, migration code implementation, and both backend and frontend development. We also ran SEO health checks, executed the ExpressionEngine to Drupal 8 migration scripts, and provided launch support during the site cutover.

We continued to work with National Nurses United by providing technical training to their internal staff and ongoing Drupal 8 development maintenance and support.