There are many ways to deploy a website. Because I work on my own, I usually use a shell script and rsync.

My front-end development workflow.

If you’re designing in your browser it’s handy to have a visual colour picker. Before CSS preprocessors arrived, ColorZilla was my tool of choice. This is a simple way to copy the Sass code for a colour instead of a hex, rgb or hsl value.

How to configure any device that’s on your network to view a development website on a Vagrant box. Making sure LiveReload will work on all devices.

I set up a virtual machine using PuPHPet to run PHP 5.4 and Drupal 8. Unfortunately the site proved to be very slow to respond.

I really enjoyed DrupalSouth. I wasn’t sure if I would; I’ve often found Drupal 6 and 7 front-end development frustrating and time-consuming. It turns out that Drupal 8 may help ease the pain. The conference also generated some seriously positive vibes for the Drupal community.

In the past I have used MacPorts on my MacBook Pro for development. I decided to set up a virtual machine using Vagrant and found it easy to set up.

Steve Hickey has written an excellent tutorial for creating flexible grids using Sass.

Use the keyboard to start and stop the playback on LMS.

Using CakePHP, Zurb Foundation and LiveReload on a Mac.