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Drupal staffing supplements the in-house shortage of Drupal developers for projects with experts in the field at a slightly higher cost but for a specific period. It involves comprehending clearly the ability of the development team and what are the auxiliary needs of the project. Staff augmentation is deemed necessary by most companies to support their business activities when additional resources are required.

In Drupal 8, variable_set() and variable_get() is deprecated. The variables database table in Drupal 7 is now removed in Drupal 8, and is replaced with config table. We can create a variable while installing the module using MODULE.setting.yml and MODULE.schema.yml files.

Businesses are engaging in different innovative strategies to develop and deliver various digital marketing experiences across the market. Marketing strategies are spirally evolving. From a personal door-to-door marketing concept, the strategy has moved to wider mass marketing while delivering personalized content. Omnichannel marketing is about providing this experience consistently over all channels.

Digital is said to be the ‘most measurable medium ever. In digital marketing, by understanding the target audience and their interests, consumers can be segmented and targeted. Acquia Lift introduced by Acquia is a SaaS solution that increases engagement, conversion, and customer satisfaction. Acquia describes Lift as," an optimization platform that enables marketing teams to transform the digital experiences offered to customers into personalization engines for conversion and revenue generation". Auto personalizing even on a one-on-one basis with users can be done using Acquia Lift.

Security Audits play a crucial role in an organization’s ongoing effort to address security concerns. After identifying any potential security issues, remedial steps need to adopt; in fact, a Security audit is one of the first steps that need to be taken. No organization in its right mind would want to leave its websites vulnerable to hacking, and conducting a security audit is the best way to tackle security issues.

Digital trends are evolving and transforming quite rapidly. Digital marketers can monitor what is being viewed, for how long and how often. Being able to analyze what content works, what doesn’t and see the sale conversions should help in making a strategic marketing plan that is agile. Drupal known for its flexibility and scalability, is a great tool for building an amazing digital marketing platform.

Most of the operations that are done when developing sites in Drupal deals with enabling and configuring modules that are to be saved for future use. This is most certain times a time consuming process. But what if we could automate these tasks by developing a deployment module. Let's find out how we could achieve this goal.

E-learning is rapidly transforming the education sector around the globe. A large number of corporations and educational institutions are switching over to e-learning due to the convenience and effectiveness it offers. E-learning is particularly useful for organizations that have offices in multiple locations and require an effective training solution that connects people at any given time, helps them achieve new competencies, launch new services/ products or improves skill sets, thus accelerating enterprise transformation and maximizing ROI.

As part of form creation process in one of our recent project we came across one module called 'Client side Validation'. As the name implies the module supports basic as well as most advanced sort of validation methods. Validating the form user inputs is the one task we could not ignore on developing forms for a web project. Let's find out how the 'Client side Validation' will make life easy.

Every country has a legal framework that regulates its businesses. While this covers a host of aspects to regulate the externalities of businesses, some of the more common ones pertain to taxation and labor laws. Compliance with these laws takes the form of a set of periodic returns/reports filing and associated payments (taxes and contribution to labor welfare schemes). The periodicity and the nature of payments vary across different countries and at times across different states.

We are happy to inform that, we have completed the the first phase of the project on creating a standardized Drupal curriculum for Drupal companies as planned. We have compiled and published our Drupal training curriculum on the groups.drupal.org wiki under the Curriculum and Training group. We are now looking to get feedback from other Drupal companies and Drupal developers on the curriculum and the training materials.

One such feature used widely throughout the site is the use of popups for alerting users. Popups are nothing new to web development. In fact Drupal provides multiple tools to create popups including the more widely used Colorbox plugin. For this project we chose to go with Ctools modal popup as it provided more options than Colorbox. Read on to know how to implement popups using Ctools. Follow the steps below to implement the pop-ups

Cross browser testing is the type of testing in which testers ensure that the application is compatible to latest versions of the commonly used browsers (commonly used browsers list can be obtained from browser statistics). Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer are some of them. This article includes a checklist that can be referred while performing the cross browser testing.