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Google Chrome to highlight insecure websites with forms in October 2017

In October 2017, the Google Chrome browser will begin to show the "Not secure" warning when a user enters any type of data on an HTTP page. This includes search forms, login screens, contact forms, etc... The time is now to switch to HTTPS if you haven't already!
Xeno Media's Michael Porter to present "Automating Putting Jenkins To Work For You" at Drupal Camp St. Louis, Saturday, Sept. 23

Xeno Media lead developer Michael Porter was selected to present Automating Putting Jenkins To Work For You at Drupal Camp St. Louis, Saturday, Sept. 23.
Xeno Causes: All Hands Hurricane Response

Xeno Media's Kevin Munday selects All Hands Hurricane Harvey Response as August's Xeno Cause
WordPress coding standards for the Drupal developer

Learn how to install the WordPress Coding Standards PHP_CodeSniffer tool along with the Drupal Coder module using composer. These tools will help any developer who works with PHP, Drupal and WordPress.
Xeno Causes: PAWS Chicago

Xeno Media's Jim Birch selects PAWS Chicago as our Xeno Cause for July.
Entity Reference Roundup

We've assembled another big list of modules to learn and explore the Drupal 8 contrib ecosystem. These modules are ones that extend or complement the Drupal 8 core Entity reference field so we as developers can build websites and applications.
Xeno Causes: Pebbles of Hope

Xeno Media's Albert Jankowski selects Pebbles of Hope as our Xeno Cause for June.
Why Do Websites Need Maintenance?

Modern open-source web sites need a solid server infrastructure and routine ongoing maintenance to stay secure, available and open for business.
Xeno Causes: UNICEF

Xeno Media's Senem Hartung selects UNICEF as our Xeno Cause for May.
Xeno Media’s Jim Birch presents on Bootstrap Paragraphs at Baltimore DrupalCon 2017

Xeno Media's Jim Birch will show how to combine the power of the world's most popular front end framework, Bootstrap with Drupal Paragraphs using the Bootstrap Paragraphs Drupal 8 module. This powerful, Xeno Media-developed module allows content creators to position structured content (Paragraph bundles) in a layout of their own design.
Xeno Causes: Build the Dream: STEM Conference

Xeno Media's Caro Manel helps latinas connect with pathways to STEM success the the Build the Dream: STEM Conference
Xeno Causes: The Melanoma Research Foundation

Xeno Media Site Builder Lauren Manasse chooses the Melanoma Research Foundation for March's Xeno Cause
Xeno Media's Michael Porter to present "The Butler Did It: Putting Jenkins To Work For You" at Drupal MidCamp Saturday, April 1

Xeno Media lead developer Michael Porter was selected to present The Butler Did It: Putting Jenkins To Work For You at Drupal Midcamp in Chicago, April 1.
Xeno Causes: World Relief

Xeno Media Lead Developer Michael Porter chooses World Relief for February's Xeno Cause
Xeno Media's Jim Birch presents at DrupalCamp Northern Lights 2017

Northern Lights Drupal Camp will take place on this weekend, February 24th - 26th, 2017 at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. The event is being organized by the Icelandic Drupal community, and we are honored that our Strategist, Jim Birch was asked to speak at this inaugural event.
Xeno Causes: Greater Chicago Food Depository

January 2017: Xeno Media's Christine Harder supports the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
Xeno Media launches a new responsive, Drupal 8 website for Science Olympiad

The Science Olympiad website serves as the the communication center for their geographically dispersed organization. Schedules, rules and other supporting information are available for all. Xeno Media developed a new, responsive Drupal 8 website with a sophisticated custom knowledgebase for rule questions and proposed changes--with submissions sent off to content experts for review and submission.
Press Release: Xeno Media celebrates 20 years in web design and development

In January 2017, Xeno Media celebrates our 20th year providing web design, development and consulting to clients around the world.
AMP it up?

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages and is an open standard for delivery of lightweight web content--particularly news and other text-based content--efficiently via mobile devices. It has a simplified coding set and Google-sponsored caching for fast delivery.
Top Thirteen Drupal Twig Helper Modules

What you can do with Drupal core's Twig is pretty great, but the Drupal community always brings so much more to the table after real world use. Here is a big list of Twig helper modules to help build out your next Drupal theme!
Xeno Media's Jim Birch presents at Bay Area Drupal Camp 2016

Our Digital Strategist, Jim Birch, will be presenting on Holistic SEO and Drupal at BADCamp X, the 10th annual Bay Area Drupal Camp being held between October 20th - 23rd at the University of California in Berkeley.
Drupal HTML Formatter Module

Drupal HTML Formatter Module is a simple module that lets you add HTML tags to fields that are strings, timestamps, datetime, referenced and entities. You can add any HTML/HTML5 tag, add classes, and you can also set if the content is linked to content which is almost always required on entity reference fields.
Xeno Media dedicated to Drupal, launches new Drupal 8 website

Xeno Media, a leading web design and development firm headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace Illinois today announces the launch of its new Drupal 8, responsive website.
Posting to Slack, Publishing in Drupal

Xeno Media is pleased to announce our latest Drupal 7 contrib module, Slack to Drupal. This module imports pictures uploaded to Slack to Drupal 7 systems--thereby allowing a community of users to add content to a site while managing their daily business collaboration through the Slack app.
Xeno Media's Jim Birch presents at Open Camps at the United Nations

Our Digital Strategist, Jim Birch, was selected to present at NYC camp, a Mission-Driven Drupal Conference. NYC camp is part of Open Camps, collection of over 25 Mission-Driven Open Source Conferences & Events which has over 6000 Attendees.
Using Page Manager to Customize the User display in Drupal 8

Being able to create a customized user display with Panels and WITHOUT Display Suite is easier than you think.
Xeno Media is Hiring

Xeno Media is hiring a Drupal / PHP Developer. You could be a vital part of a team that crafts beautiful, high visibility, highly functional websites.
Add CSS Classes using a select list field easily in Drupal 8 Twig Templates

A quick Drupal 8 tutorial that covers how to use a select field to add CSS classes in a twig template. We use this technique often on Paragraph entities where we need to position, or color using CSS.
Dare to Dream

The Dare to Dream: STEM Conference is geared toward increasing the participation of the number of Latina girls in science, technology, engineering and math
Customizing Wordpress User Permissions

To modify WordPress’ permission system beyond the defaults, plugins are needed to add additional specificity and granularity required for a business website. This article explains some of those plugins.
What Does Facebook’s New Graph Search Mean For You?

On Tuesday, January 16th, 2013, Facebook announced Graph Search which has the potential to change searching the internet as we know it.
Are Those Really Your Frequently Asked Questions?

It’s pretty standard for a website to have a Frequently Asked Questions page. We’ve certainly built our share.
Adobe Flash: Can you have too much of a good thing?

There are very few technologies clients ask for by name. One that we've been seeing a lot of lately is Flash, Adobe's platform for rich content and media on the web.
Wired Reread

I'm really enjoying Wired Reread, a new blog with clippings from early issues of Wired magazine.

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