Launch of 6 new sites for Cross Company
The new system of 6 websites for Cross Company and its divisions has launched! This is the second generation of sites that Kilpatrick Design has created for Cross. The new sites have strong blogs and provide better integration with their ecommerce site
Co-Working in Winston-Salem
We offer a quiet and elegant co-working space at 801 N Trade Street, in downtown Winston-Salem. There are only seven desks in the space (maximum capacity). In addition to a beautiful office space and conference room, enjoy easy downtown parking (no additional cost) and a fantastic downtown address. Call Kristie at 646-320-3845 to check availability of co-working spaces.
Launch of website for Restoration & Recovery
Restoration & Recovery is a stormwater management company serving the contiguious 48 states and Puerto Rico.
Kilpatrick Design developed a new logo and website for Restoration & Recovery, and we're pleased to announce the site launch.
Private Downtown Office Available for Month-to-Month Lease
Update Nov 2014: This space is not currently available. Check our downtown Winston-Salem office space listings for availability.
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Cheap and Easy Website Building: the Commoditization of Digital Marketing
It's happening, and it's really not a surprise. In some ways it's kind of delightful. The commoditization of websites has outgrown its ugly phase (think godaddy, network solutions, and intuit... YUCK!), and now you can find really beautiful, elegant, and CHEAP website building tools. They're easier than setting up a Wordpress template, and the templates are getting prettier and more plentiful each day.
Gallery Opening September 5 featuring Les III
Join us for some tasty beverages, beautiful art, and fun conversation on Friday, September 5th from 6pm–9pm at Kilpatrick Design — 801 N Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
Meet the artist — Les III — and have a chance to purchase original works of art (come early!). Here's a sneak peek at three of the many, many pieces that will be on display.
The One Thing That Will Make Your Website Work
There are many important elements to creating and maintaining a successful web presence, but there is one arguably more important than any other — customer focus. You can focus on the customer in a variety of ways, including thoughtful strategy, well-crafted content and use of best practices for design and development. The common business mentality is to communicate first what you offer to customers.
Drupal 8 Quick Tip: Entity View Hooks
By default, Drupal 8 comes optimized for performance. If you've use the standard install profile, you might find that it's difficult to develop or debug changes to the way an entity is displayed. I spent an hour or so last night trying to figure out why my code in hook_node_view as behaving strangely. Code would run once, and then not again, and if I made changes they wouldn't show up. Very strange!
Drupal 8 Quick Tip: Attaching Inline CSS
Drupal 8 does away with drupal_add_css and drupal_add_js (see the change record for more info). In its place, you'll need to use #attached on render arrays. While this seems pretty straightforward when adding css stored in files, you might question how to attach inline CSS or JS. Here's an example:
DrupalCon Austin 2014
I write this in the Austin airport as we wait for our flight home from DrupalCon 2014. It's been a great trip, we've learned tons and definitely got very excited about Drupal 8. We also managed to expose Wendy to an insane quantity of nerds, and I got my first core commit at the Friday sprints!!