I started a tech blog to document the Drupal and frontend problems I was solving and share those lessons with other developers. And when responsive design arrived, I built a training tool to help people figure out this “new” way of building websites.
Parts of the blog and training tool still exist. Which is either impressive or hilarious.
Once helpful resources. Now historical artifacts with excellent nostalgia value.
Built with: Drupal, PHP, HTML, CSS
My work:
In my early days of working with Drupal, I started a blog to document problems I encountered and how I resolved them.
I collected these posts in their own Drupal site, which was also a writing and content portfolio
The original Drupal site has been retired, but some of the content was migrated into the Sanity.io backend that drives the site you're looking at now.
Status:
Retired, sorta.
Built with: HTML, CSS, Photoshop
My work:
I created this developer training tool at a time when the web was changing from a largely desktop experience to a mobile + desktop experience. "Responsive design" was the hot, new buzzword, and pinch-zooming was on its way out.
Unfortunately, our team had built hundreds of internal and external sites and applications that were not responsive. The Responsive Blueprint starter kit was both a templating system and a training tool to teach responsive web concepts and make it easier to refactor existing apps.
I keep it around in Github, because, although these ideas are ancient, it's one of the few online training tools I built that I have a copy of.
Status:
Active
URL: https://kimdomenick.github.io/2008-responsive-blueprint/ (opens in new tab)
