Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

The new year has kicked into gear, and the Craft community is busier than ever!

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Let’s link the hits.

News

Matsuko talks Accessibility + Craft

Our own Matsuko Friedland joined the Website 101 podcast, hosted by Sean Smith and Mike Mella, to talk about why website accessibility matters.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

First Look at Nitro 2

CraftQuest published a quick, 12 minute video covering some of the exciting new features of Nitro 2.

Craft/Bootstrap/Sass/Vue Starter

Jesse Knowles shared his Craft starter project, which includes Bootstrap, Sass, and Vue. It even comes with setup instructions for Nitro 2.

nystudio107’s Docker Images Updated for PHP 8

nystudio107 released a big update to their Docker Images repo, with PHP 8, Xdebug 3, M1 support, and more.

Components and Twig

Oliver Stark catalogued a few different approaches to component-based Twig templates.

Flexible Twig Templates in Craft 3

CraftQuest remade their popular course on Twig templating, now updated with the latest tools and best practices.

Deliver Email Reliably with Postmark Message Streams

On the Postmark blog, Bettina Specht wrote about how you can utilize Message Streams to improve email reliability, thanks to a new update to the Postmark plugin.

If you’re using Postmark via SMTP and curious whether it’s worth switching to the plugin (API), check out this handy guide.

Start with the Markup

Henry Desroches shared a tip for developing accessible web pages.

What is Content Strategy?

If you’ve heard of “content strategy” but never really looked into it, Caroline C. Blaker published a great high level introduction.

Contrast

A handy macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.

Pika

Open source color picker for macOS, with a focus on accessibility.

Assistiv Labs

Test your websites with assistive technologies. Think BrowserStack, but for accessibility.

Built on Craft

Bigge

Garrett St. John on Discord:

We just launched the new Bigge Crane and Rigging website at https://www.bigge.com/ using Craft and Vue. It was a complete joy to put together. Looking for some help going forward as well, DM me.

This makes it 8 sites in the last 24 months we've built on Craft. Multi-site for language options, SEOmatic, Blitz and other goodies in there (further optimisation to come)

Brighter Futures Indiana

Built with Blitz, Turbolinks, Tailwind, and Alpine.js.

Hatch End Tuition

Terry Upton in Discord:

Everything was designed and created by myself with feedback/input from the client.

Barnes Foundation

Weanursery by Ella’s Kitchen

Lauren Swarbrick on Twitter:

Abstrakt built the Weanursery microsite in #CraftCMS to build awareness, drive traffic to the main brand site and boost ecommerce conversions.

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

SolarWinds: How Russian spies hacked the Justice, State, Treasury, Energy and Commerce Departments

“When we analyzed everything that we saw at Microsoft, we asked ourselves how many engineers have probably worked on these attacks. And the answer we came to was, well, certainly more than 1,000.”

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Overheard

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.