Web Design & Development Articles
Insights and advice to help you keep up with the increasingly fast pace of change in web design, brand design and social & digital media marketing.
Website launch: Ian Lishman Photo Video
We are very excited to announce the launch of our latest website - Ian Lishman Photo Video.
Turtlereality have been working with Ian since the very beginning, and it's fantastic to be working together again with such a great and influential photographer.
Website launch: MRAG
More of a site re-launch, this is the upgraded Drupal 8 version of a site we originally built in 2013. The new version has had a design overhaul, updating the look and feel for 2021.
The upgrade process meant that all existing content and user information was transferred across to the new installation seamlessly. A final data migration at the point of going live synchronised the 2 sites.
Using Drupal 8 means that we have all the tools we need right at our fingertips to build top-class websites for premium brands.
Hourglass Donations Pages
This week has been "Safer Aging Week" and as part of their preparations, we built a collection of donation pages for top UK charity Hourglass, which you can see here.
https://wearehourglass.org/donate
The campaign has got quite a bit of national press, eg here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/29/one-in-five-older-peopl…
The pages we… Read More
Find Your Delivery Location Easily - Even in Rural Wiltshire
We've just added a great new feature to the checkout of the Drupal Commerce website we created for Ed Knights Logs - What3Words.
Finding locations for log deliveries had been a problem, but What3Words allows customers to pinpoint an area 3m squared for their delivery. So, even if you want your logs delivered down a track in the woods, or the house numbers in your street don't make sense, they can find you. Something which is not always easy in the middle of rural Wiltshire!
How to Get Back to Where You Were Before a Composer Update
We've all been there, the last composer update you did has broken your whole Drupal 8 website and now you need to unravel the mess and put everything back to how it was.
So, how do you get back to where you were? Well, if you are using Git (and you certainly should be using some sort of version control) and the changes you made are not yet committed you can do this
# reset back to your last commit - should give you the commit number
> git reset --hard
If you have commited changes, you can reset back to a… Read More
Website Launch: Pilot Network
We are very excited to have launched a new website for Pilot Network.
The website is a review and comparison site for Pilot Schools and courses across Europe. The site has masses of detail, allowing a really in-depth view of the user generated content - a very valuable resource for people looking to train as pilots.
Created using Drupal 8 this incredibly complex system gives us enormous control over data gathering and presentation.
Full case… Read More
11 Benefits of Working with a Small Web Design Company
Sometimes when we pitch to larger companies we can sense a slight reticence about trusting their valuable project to a small web design company such as ours.
I can absolutely understand these concerns, hiring the big name vendor can look like the safe move - but there is another side to the story. Here are some pretty good reasons why working with a small digital marketing company can be just as rewarding - if not more so!
You get to be the BIG clientHiring Mega Corp might seem like a good move, but how much does your… Read More
Ecommerce Website Passes the £4 Million Mark
We are delighted to announce that another Turtlereality-created website has ticked over into the next million bracket!
This time it's 4 million - and that's just for the Drupal 7 version - and without including revenues from the Drupal 6 version that it replaced.
Drupal Commerce has a fantastic ability to sell large volumes of products and create hugely successful e-commerce ventures, without charging a percentage on your sales, like some other e-commerce platforms we could mention.
If you are interested in… Read More
Upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 using Drush
Upgrading from Drupal 7 to 8 can be quite a daunting task. Here are some hints and tips to get you on your way!
Drupal and DrushUnless your site is very straightforward, you are going to benefit from using drush. First off, you will need to install the appropriate modules - here is a quick list:
migrate_file migrate_plus migrate_manifest migrate_tools migrate_upgrade Database MigrationNext, add your legacy database to your drupal 8 settings.php file in this format
$databases['default']['default'] = array (
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Quiz: How Drupal Are You?
OK, so you LOVE Drupal, everybody does - but just how Drupal ARE you, really?
Answer the questions below to find out:
You need to make a simple splash page, do you
A. Summon up some boilerplate html
B. Hand code something bespoke
C. Initialise another drupal installation
A customer asks for a one off form, no web site, just a form. Do you
A. Go straight to survey monkey
B. Hand code something
C. Fire up another drupal installation
A friend is starting a new business, do you… Read More