Website relaunch. Two of the most terrifying words in all of marketing.

I am extremely passionate about this topic. I’ve worked with thousands of website teams and personally suffered through hundreds of relaunches. They are time-consuming, budget-depleting, all-encompassing efforts that inflate expectations but often fall flat in terms of results. They can leave wreckage in their wake: burnt out teams, reduced credibility and sometimes even empty chairs around the table. I know there’s a better way—the agile way.

When working on Drupal 8 theming, it is very helpful to have Twig debug mode on. Debug mode will cause twig to emit a lot of interesting information about which template generated each part of the page. The instructions for enabling debug mode can be found within the comments of the default.services.yml file, among other sources. In short, all you need is the following in your services.yml file:
 
parameters:
  twig.config:

I’m happy to announce the release of a supported Command Line Interface (CLI) for the Pantheon platform. It’s free, open-source, built on Drush, and available on GitHub:

https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus

In a nutshell, Terminus allows you to do anything you can in the Pantheon dashboard from a terminal:

When you're frustrated with your work, what do you do? If you’re Katie Sylor-Miller, Frontend Architect at Etsy, you figure out how to fix it.

Then, you share that information with the world. At least this was the impetus for her “Happy Browser, Happy User” presentation at WordSesh 2019. 

Before we can talk about why to use version control it's important to understand what version control is. In it's simplest form, version control is a system that tracks changes to files over time.

Version control is often used by software developers but is useful for anyone who works with files that are updated over time, especially if there are multiple collaborators.

As a Drupal architect I’ve been building web applications for clients for years, starting with sales, working through the technical architecture, and all the way through to the final touches. I build web applications for projects of varied sizes—some have only a couple of stakeholders (like the CTO and CMO), and others touch dozens of departments across an organization, all with varied technical ability.

Thanks to everyone who came to see me and Howard Tyson of Zivtech present our session on ElasticSearch at Drupalcon LA. We decided to nerd out, both doing our slides in code with Bespoke.js and focusing on getting