Development and design

Whether it's delays, technical dead ends or unclear requirements - there are many pitfalls lurking in web projects. As experienced Drupal project managers, we know the pitfalls - and how to reach your goal safely with the right planning, communication and technology. In this article, we show you the 9 most common risks in website development - and...

What is Drupal CMS? What does the new system offer and who is it suitable for? Find out how Drupal CMS is becoming accessible for private individuals, small businesses and associations with preconfigured solutions and simple operation.

With the ECA module, Drupal takes no-code solutions to a new level: create workflows without writing a single line of code - easily, flexibly and quickly. Discover how ECA transforms your business requirements into agile solutions.

The Drupal Webform module is much more than just a tool for simple contact forms. It offers flexible, powerful solutions for capturing and managing data. Discover how we as experts use this module to optimize your business processes and create customized forms.

More power for your Drupal website! We show you the top 10 Drupal modules that will take any company website to the next level. From user-friendliness to security - with these tools you can make your site more efficient and future-proof. So you can exploit the full potential of Drupal.

Learn how empathy maps can help you understand the needs of your target group and create user-centered websites. Book workshops now and learn more about customer centricity!

Find out how we use Drupal to design accessible websites that are accessible to all users - and why this is crucial for future-proofing your digital offerings.

Proactive monitoring is essential for Drupal website operators. It enables problems to be detected and rectified at an early stage, ensures stable performance and guarantees that business-critical applications are always available.

Discover the revolution in search technology with Algolia! In our blog post, you'll find out why Algolia is the first choice for developers who want to implement user-friendly and efficient search functions. We shed light on how Algolia increases conversion rates in e-commerce, why it harmonizes perfectly with Drupal and how AI makes search even...

Would you like to know why Algolia is becoming increasingly important in the digital world? Find out how this innovative search and navigation platform delivers precise search results in milliseconds in our detailed explanation of the term. Discover how Algolia uses AI technology to improve the user experience and increase conversion rates for...

How to extend the range of functions in just a few steps. Drupal 10 offers over 6,200 modules (as of 7.9.2023) - here's how to install them!

Monolithic systems are not a thing of the past, but they are increasingly being replaced by modern architectures such as microservices. This is due to the advantages of microservices, such as better scalability, greater flexibility and easier maintainability.

What current options are there for measuring and improving website loading times? Tips for fast optimization!

Git hooks help to automate collaborative software development. Find out everything you need to know about Git hooks here.

What is Git and what is the open source tool used for? How are GitHub and GitLab related to Git? - Find out here.

With PHP 8, a new major version of the popular programming language has been released. We show you the most important new features.

Since we at arocom love Drupal and Drupal is strongly based on OOP, this content management system offers us the perfect opportunity to explain the basics of object-oriented programming to you in more detail.

Xdebug 3 makes debugging in PHP faster and easier to configure. Find out everything you need to know about the new version of Xdebug here.

Would you like to introduce Config Split as an extension for Drupal 8 & 9 configuration management? We will show you how to perform a clean conversion from config directories to Config Split.

Corona has changed a lot in 2020, including the application process at arocom. In this article, you can find out why my start at arocom went smoothly and what experiences I had in my first few weeks as a Junior Web Developer at arocom.

Are you considering changing your Drupal agency? In this article, we'll show you 6 simple steps to help you make the switch smoothly.

Headless CMS is a content management system that works without its own theme layer. The backend and frontend are therefore separate from each other.

The discipline of UI design deals with the design of user interfaces as an interface between man and machine. These interfaces are abbreviated as UI (=User Interface). UI design is a sub-discipline of UX (=User Experience) design.

What is meant by the term UX design? And how does this relate to the so-called user experience?

JavaScript-based frameworks have never been more popular in recent years and have led to the development of some prominent projects such as AngularJS or React. Recently, however, another name has increasingly attracted attention and is beginning to inspire a growing developer community: Vue.js.

Node.js is a server-side, event-based JavaScript runtime environment developed by Ryan Dahl for the development of scalable network applications.

The English term backlog translates to "order backlog" and generally refers to a dynamic list of collected tasks, features or requirements that are waiting to be processed.

Drupal's future frontend theme is called Olivero. In this article, you can find out what the theme is all about and what new features and benefits it brings.

As a digital agency specializing in Drupal, it is important to us to live the values of the open source community. We present our latest, self-developed module, which is now available on drupal.org: Localized Configuration.

About modules, Composer, Drush and yaml for non-developers: Creating Drupal websites without being a programmer - Bertram Salzmann reports on this in this guest article.

What does frontend development mean? What does a frontend developer do? And how is it different from a backend developer? Read everything you need to know about frontend development here.

What does DevOps mean? What is it good for and why should you do it? DevOps simply explained-

Woodwing Enterprise Aurora offers publishers the opportunity to create media-neutral content and prepare it for a wide variety of channels. Find out everything you need to know about the software here.

With a total of over 42,000 contrib modules, Drupal allows us to build and customize a website according to our own ideas. Read here how to install Drupal modules.

Single sign-on is an authentication process that authorizes a user to access all services connected to the SSO system instead of having to log in separately for each service.

As part of your digitization projects, your systems are increasingly growing together. arocom's software developers have years of experience in programming interfaces and data migrations from / to Drupal. In addition to the required system-specific expertise, we also offer a range of accompanying services.

With its modular structure of features, Drupal allows you to assemble a website from individual building blocks, so-called modules, according to your taste. You can find out how to create a module yourself in this article.

Summary and overview of the results of a bachelor thesis on "Monitoring, self-service and housekeeping with the Drupal Remote Dashboard".

To facilitate the creation of multilingual websites, our customers use Localise.biz, or Loco for short. Here you can find out what advantages Loco offers.

Definition: HAProxy is an open source software that can be connected upstream of one or more web servers in order to take over certain previously configured processes.

Definition: Codeception is an open source software that allows you to write and execute various automated test types for digital products within a framework.

Definition: Varnish is an open source software that enables the caching of mostly static files such as images and texts in order to deliver them faster for client-side queries than if the web server had to compile and deliver the requested data each time. Varnish thus avoids simple server work and reduces the web server load.

Definition: Domain Name Service or DNS means the aliasing of IP addresses to domain name addresses and the reverse resolution of a domain name address to the associated IP address in order to support website visitors with "readable" addresses. Domain name servers are involved in the encryption and decryption of IP addresses.

Definition: With a multisite, several websites can be managed in/from one CMS installation. For companies, multisites reduce costs as the management and maintenance of content as well as the system administration and hosting of all websites can be done centrally.

Scrum is a process model for project and product management, particularly for agile software development. It was originally developed in software engineering, but can also be used in other areas.

In this article you will learn how the components Drupal 8, React and GraphQL can be used to set up a Decoupled Drupal installation. With sample implementation and code.

Analysis tools are a dime a dozen. Some are fee-based, others are free. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses. This also includes the Yandex metrica analysis.

In this article, we would like to show you how you can use simple tools and "habits" to better secure your data and website configurations.

The Drupal 8 core offers a very extensive authorization system. However, sometimes there are requirements that need to be solved by additional modules. This article briefly shows you how you can extend the authorization to edit menus.

If you want to transfer content from your old Drupal website to a new one, you can use the migration via csv file. In this article, we go into this in more detail and explain all the steps involved in the migration.

Icinga is a monitoring tool that can be used to run automated tests on digital projects. In this article, we explain why arocom uses Icinga, what the tool can do and how you can benefit from it.

Would you like to place the hosting and security maintenance of your Drupal websites in professional hands? We have been operating and maintaining a large number of sophisticated Drupal projects for over 10 years. We would be happy to convince you of our expertise.

What exactly is Zend? Zend Technologies Inc. is the company name of a company that has significantly contributed to the development of the PHP scripting language and offers solutions related to this language. Examples of this are the Zend Engine, which executes PHP bytecode as a runtime environment, or the Zend Framework, which provides a software...

What is Yii and what is it used for? Like Symfony, the Yii framework plays in the upper PHP framework league and also serves as a basis for developing web applications. The Yii framework can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge and can be used both privately and commercially free of charge thanks to the BSD license.

What does the W3C standard stand for? The World Wide Web Consortium, a committee for the standardization of WWW technologies, is primarily responsible for the W3C standard. The Consortium was founded in 1994 at the MIT Laboratory.

What is usability? Usability describes the degree to which a product or service is suitable for use by a specific user in a specific application context.

What is the title tag? The title tag is the title belonging to a web page, which is located within the HTML code in the header. It is displayed at the top of the browser window or in the browser tab. It also serves as the title of a search result in the SERP snippet.

What is a theme? Definition: A theme is a collection of graphic elements that determine the appearance of user interfaces of operating systems, computer programs and websites. Within a system, a theme forms a self-contained unit that is outsourced and loaded individually. This approach makes it possible to replace the theme with little effort...

What exactly are templates? Especially in the field of web design, templates are files that describe the layout of one or more pages of a website, but provide placeholders for the content to be displayed. The placeholders in templates are dynamically replaced with content.

Definition: The Symfony framework is one of the best-known professional PHP frameworks, which is used as the basis for developing web applications and follows the model-view-controller approach. Symfony can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge and used for both private and commercial projects.

Why do you need scrapers? In most cases, scrapers are software tools that make it possible to copy the content of other websites and, if necessary, process it according to your own requirements. Only with the support of scrapers is it economically viable to maintain your own website purely or primarily on the basis of third-party content.

Responsive web design expresses a creative and technical paradigm of developing websites in such a way that they can adapt to the visual and haptic possibilities of the end device. The main reason for responsive web design is to arrange the page elements optimally for each end device or screen size in order to achieve the highest possible usability...

What is an editorial system used for? An editorial system is a computer application that allows the editorial maintenance of journalistic content. The central characteristic feature of an editorial system is the separation of content and its presentation. The class of content management systems (CMS) is a particularly popular form of editorial...

What are portals? Portals are web applications, particularly in the WWW context, that integrate various web services into one application in a customizable way. The start page of portals often serves as an entry page. The technology and purpose of portals are mainly the subject of research in business informatics, as they offer interesting...

What does PHP stand for? PHP is a scripting language that is often used to program dynamic websites or web applications. PHP is available as a PHP module, is free software and is distributed under the PHP license. Well-known web applications that have been implemented with PHP include Drupal, Typo3 and Magento.

Definition: Open source refers to a paradigm according to which knowledge is generally open and usable for everyone. In the narrower sense, this refers to computer programs and tools whose program code is freely accessible to anyone interested.

What is module development? Module development is about developing more extensive software not monolithically, but on the basis of modules ("assemblies").

Definition: The meta description is a short description of the content of the page. It is used to provide search engine users with more information about the search result.

What is a keyword? In the context of SEO (search engine optimization), a keyword is a search term or search phrase that search engine users use to find information on the Internet. Keywords play a central role in search engine marketing. The central task of search engine optimizers is, as a first step, to identify the keywords relevant to the...

What is an intranet? The word intranet is made up of the Latin: Intra = in, within and the English net = network and is a synonym for intranet portal.

Definition: Internet presence refers to the entirety of all web pages of an individual website. This can be a website that consists of HTML pages that are not generated programmatically. The content of such websites is predefined by the author and only changes on the author's initiative. This approach to websites contrasts with those with...

Definition: HTML is the abbreviation for Hypertext Markup Language, a markup language on the Internet. Together with CSS and other techniques, HTML is used to display web pages in web browsers. The task of HTML is to structure the content. CSS is responsible for the "design". In addition to the content, HTML also characterizes the meta information...

Definition: Views is a module for Drupal that allows different views of content to be generated. The PHP framework Drupal is based on a software architecture that can be functionally extended by modules (similar to plugins in other common CMS). A large number of Drupal modules are available for this purpose, such as the Views module. Views can be...

What is a domain? An (Internet) domain is a coherent part of the Domain Name System (DNS). A domain is a globally unique name that can be freely chosen as part of the domain allocation process. An example of a domain is example.com, where "com" is the so-called top-level domain (here not that of a country, but generic) and "example" is the freely...

The essence of documentation is to prepare, structure and preserve information of all kinds for use in the future. Even if documentation is still available in analog form, the total amount of digital material is increasing rapidly. Documentation also plays a particularly important role in private, profit-oriented companies.

What does deployment mean? Deployment (software distribution) refers to the semi-automated or fully automated processes for installing and configuring software on PCs and servers, typically in companies. The aim of a deployment strategy is to make aspects of IT management in companies more efficient. Companies use special software solutions and...

Definition: CTR is a key figure in online marketing and stands for Click Through Rate. It is calculated from clicks / impressions * 100%. Impressions are "impressions" of your pages as a search result, i.e. how often your result was displayed in a search within a certain period of time. If you had 1,000 impressions for your keyword in a month and...

Definition: CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is used to design websites for the "eye". While HTML is used as a structuring and markup language to build and structure the content of a page, CSS is used to program the design rules.

What is Contao? Contao is a free content management system based on PHP, formerly known as TYPOlight. Contao can be used to create medium-sized to large websites and conveniently maintain their content. In addition to numerous other features, Contao impresses with barrier-free (X)HTML output and a cross-browser CSS framework. Contao can be freely...

What is browser compatibility? Browser compatibility refers to the ability of selected web browsers to process or display the content of a website exactly as intended by its developers. Today's discussion about browser compatibility has its origins in the early 1990s. At that time, web browsers were created that in some cases only followed...

Definition: Anchor text is the German equivalent of anchor text. Other synonyms are link text and reference text. Below you will learn what you can use anchor text for, how it is technically structured and how it is used for SEO.

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AN ANIMATION? If the viewer is made to believe that the subject is moving by playing several individual images at a sufficiently fast speed, this is referred to as animation.

Do you have multiple web identities or accounts and want them to be secure? In this article you will find out whether your passwords have been hacked and how you can protect them.

"As a student of media informatics, there has always been a field for me that I believe represents the perfect symbiosis of the two main areas of my degree program: Web development..." Maximilian Rabus gives an insight into his internship with the Pirates.

Drupal is inherently suitable as a CMS for technically search engine optimized websites. Nevertheless, there are one or two cases that require additional modules for SEO. Such SEO modules are available for different Drupal versions. There are different modules for Drupal 8 than for Drupal 7, for example.

What is the difference between responsive and adaptive web design? We explain the facts and show you which solution is best for your website.

Testing is one of the most important tasks in web development. It is very convenient when tests are automated, as this saves developers a lot of time and effort. We use Behat in our projects. This article deals with how to make the best use of this form of behavioral driven development.

In this article, we would like to offer HostEurope customers solutions on how to upgrade their Drupal 6 site, which is currently running on PHP 5.3, to a newer, more secure and better performing version.

What is HTTPS, why do I need it and what advantages does it have over HTTP? You can find this and lots of important information about updating to HTTPS, including SEO, in this blog article.

Are you developing complex web projects in a team with Drupal 10 and looking for a new challenge? Then take a look at our website and apply. We look forward to hearing from you! You can find all the information here.

There are numerous ranking factors. One of them is pagespeed. You can find out why you should pay attention to the loading time of your website in this article.

The sentence that has just got me thinking and prompted me to write this article is "ALL sites that are NOT mobile friendly will be rated as Fails to Meet". Sounds kind of threatening. And maybe it is for you too. Let me explain what I mean.

Internet projects are made up of a website design, the functions (administration) and the template (theme). In the theming, HTML is programmed from the website image and made compatible with the functions. Read more.

Are you looking for an agency specializing in the CMS Drupal? Then arocom GmbH is the right place for you. We develop individual websites, portals, stores and intranet solutions.