Ben Blankley's articles

When building or commissioning a new website, one of the most important considerations is the Content Management System (CMS) you’ll build the site with. Get it wrong, and it can cost you a lot of […]

Here I’ll share a template you can use when creating a tender / Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of a new charity website. I’ll also give you some tips as to what to […]

Spoiler alert: no. Someone asked us the other day if we can make sites with carousels/sliders to rotate different content on the homepage, because not many of the sites in our portfolio have them. So […]

You’re busy, lazy, or maybe reading this whilst watching The X Factor so let’s cut straight to the chase… 1People relate to people Your cause, your mission, your innovative approach, your shocking statistics, your lovely […]

If you were following part one when we built a donations form using Gravity Forms and Paypal, then you’re hopefully up and running and have tested it out on your site. The next step is to […]

In a previous blog post I talked about what makes a good donation form for a small charity. Here’s a tutorial on how to build your own. This recipe combines technologies that are commonly used on […]

Hacked charity websites seem to have been in the news a lot recently. Having your site hacked can be a pretty traumatising experience, and if it’s not quickly fixed it can incur big reputational risks, […]

I’ve had a few people ask how to replicate the animated navigation bar effect used on one of my example sites. I’m not sure how best to describe it – the tabs kind of slide […]

I’ve wrangled many a website theme over the years and built a few websites from scratch. I was thrilled one day when I came across the Twitter Bootstrap system because it saved huge amounts of […]

Drupal is a great Content Management System and it has some powerful caching options… but getting them to work well with a mobile site subdomain can be tricky. The Boost module is a very popular […]