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.
26/05/2023New Site Launch: MRAG Europe
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website for MRAG Europe an international development agency.
This brings the European division into line with the UK website with the addition of improved multi-language options and automatically updated content.
Click the link below for more information
13/04/2023New Site Launch: Pets on the Parade
Turtlereality has launched a new Drupal 9 website for Pets on the Parade - a newly refurbished London pet shop.
Many months in the making - and with more content still to come through, the site is a great base for future improvements.
Read more here:
06/09/2022New Site Launch: Braid Wines
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new e-commerce site for Braid Wines & Altar Supplies.
The website has been in development over the summer and is now live! The site is built using Drupal 9 and Drupal Commerce, which give us a great framework to build e-commerce websites and manipulate data in whatever form it comes, whether it's an image, an article or in this case a product.
08/08/2022Wiki Tribune Social Logo
We are getting close to finalising the logo for Wiki Tribune Social.
The site is centred around 'subwikis' which are inter-connected globs of information represented by the transparent dots. All of the subwikis go to make up a world. A Wiki world!
It's quite surreal to be working with internet legend Jimmy Wales, but it's great to be involved in a project that could really be a force for good in the world - and act as a balance to the profit-driven social media companies.
New site coming soon!
19/07/2022New Site Launch: Holy Socks E-commerce
Turtlereality has just launched another e-commerce website, this time for a manufacturer and designer of novelty socks - with a biblical bent.
We love the socks, they are witty and colourful and make ideal gifts.
Read more about the project here:
24/05/2022Wiki Tribune Social
When Elon Musk threatened to buy Twitter people began to look for alternatives. Listening to the radio, I heard Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, talking about something called WT.social which was offering safe harbour for Twitter refugees.
I had a look and was really amazed at the lack of design. It didn't look as if a designer had been anywhere near it. So I posted a few glib comments about how "it looks like 1998 in here" and "I'll do it for free - for the publicity. Hey, there's a good story!". I was very surprised to get an… Read More
02/03/2022Site Launch: Bracknell Swimarium
We have just launched a new site for Bracknell Swimarium - what a great name!
It's a fairly simple site featuring information about their facilities. We made an intuitive attractive site, which sits comfortably in the overall world of the Swim School.
01/03/2022Congratulations to Pilot Network on reaching 300 reviews!
Congratulations to Pilot Network this week for hitting 300 flight school reviews. They have also added a new partner organisation, Pilotbase.
Turning an idea into a functioning, viable proposition is never easy and it's taken a lot of work from both Pilot Network and ourselves to make this happen.
17/11/2021Git Submodules, a better way
Gitmodules - Git Sub Modules - are really the bane of my life! The recent Drupal 9 update has brought this into sharp focus and pushed us to find a better way of dealing with these. Here is a recipe...
Delete the .git folder of the submodule with the following
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rm -rf public_html/modules/contrib/module_name/.git
rm cached it out of there with this:
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git rm --cached public_html/modules/contrib/module_name… Read More
14/09/2021Now Upgraded to Drupal 9
It's been a busy year and Drupal 8 is fast approaching its end of life, so we've been making a start on the process of upgrading to Drupal 9.
The upgrade process is looking like it's quite mature, with lots of the kinks ironed out, but there are still quite a number of contributed modules needing work. As the deadline gets closer the gap should shrink even more.
Drupal promised that the transition from 8 to 9 would be a 'minor' update. It is when compared to the major upheaval of a Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 upgrade, but it's a… Read More