user interface

The best colors for link text

When I'm creating a new website, I have a lot of decisions to make about the theme. I am not a designer, so I usually just find a decent starter theme and make some small changes.

On a recent project - The Democracy Habit - I needed to decide what color to use for text links.

I want to make my sites as accessible as possible, so I started with that as a guideline, then looked for recommendations based on solid research about both accessibility and usability.

Adding blocks in Drupal 8

If you're used to Drupal 7, you might have a moment of frustration the first time you try to add a block to your pages in Drupal 8.

In Drupal 8, you won't see all your unused blocks stowed in the Disabled section of the Blocks page.

Instead, new blocks are hidden until you add them to a region using Drupal 8's new Place Block button: