Darren Fisher, Creative Director at Pivale Drupal agency - a bearded man with dark hair and glasses.

Darren Fisher

Creative Director

Darren is our creative director, responsible for our design and frontend development team as well as managing the majority of our website and multisite builds. Darren is a graduate of the University for the Creative Arts achieving a bachelor's degree in Digital Screen Arts.

Articles by Darren

A hacker with red binary code projected on to her face.
Article

Hackers 1995 & other hacker movies reviewed and rated!

2 July, 2025
#Just for fun
#Security & compliance
#WordPress

Looking for some great hacker movies like Hackers 1995? Being both a developer & movie fanatic I thought it would be fun to make a list!

A woman smiling because she is happy she's found the content management software that works for her.
Article

Content management software. What CMS should I choose?

15 July, 2024
#Advice
#Drupal
#Insights
#Review
#Security & compliance
#SEO
#User experience
#WordPress

Struggling with choosing which content management software or system you should choose? We put 18 of the best CMSs head to head to help you decide.

A woman photographer wearing a blue sleeveless dress takes a photograph for a free stock photography website.
Article

15 FREE stock photography websites for high quality images

12 July, 2024
#Advice

Looking for high quality free stock photography websites? Explore this list of our favourite open source, creative commons and free stock images websites.

A frustrated CSS developer eating her BEM CSS with ABEM & BBEM acronym soup!
Article

BEM CSS naming conventions including ABEM & BBEM

8 July, 2024
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript
#Insights

BEM CSS. ABEM CSS. BBEM CSS. What does it all mean? We explore front end developer naming conventions and component driven design.

CSS nesting is here - front end developers represented as hungry chicks in a nest.
Article

Native CSS nesting is here. Is it time to ditch SCSS?

4 July, 2024
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript

CSS nesting has finally arrived in native CSS and we're so excited. Could 2024 be the year that we finally ditch SCSS in our frontend workflows?

The new Pivale website showcased on an Apple iMac.
Article

Pivale launch a bold new website for ambitious brands

27 March, 2024
#Press

Our bold new website aims to further our mission to empower business leaders to unlock the full potential of their websites and software.

A boy looking very confused and scratching his head.
Article

What is Pattern Lab and why should I care about it?

11 September, 2018
#Frontend
#Insights

Our front-end developer discusses why you and your business should be considering Pattern Lab for your next Drupal project.

Atomic design components from atoms, through molecules, organisms, templates, pages to Drupal.
Article

10 lessons from using Drupal 8 + Pattern Lab + Emulsify

22 August, 2018
#Drupal
#Frontend
#Review

The musings of our front end developer after the launch of our first Pattern Lab + Drupal 8 project via the Emulsify base theme.

An aerial view of the Danube through Vienna at dusk.
Article

We went to DrupalCon 2017 in Vienna

4 October, 2017
#Drupal
#Press

This year's European Drupal conference took place in Vienna, Austria ahead of the news that there will be no DrupalCon Europe 2018.

The Sass and CSS 3 logos offset in a pattern across a design grid.
Article

Using Sass and CSS3 Flex as a grid system

3 April, 2017
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript
#Tutorial

We used to be big fans of using singularity to create responsive grids on which to craft our web layouts but we've been converted to CSS3 flex and here's why!

Real Life Digital merchandise stand at DrupalCamp London 2017.
Article

We went to DrupalCamp London 2017

6 March, 2017
#Drupal
#Press

DrupalCamp London celebrated its fifth birthday this year, and for the first time Real Life Digital were official sponsors of the CxO day.

Drupal SEO - the Drupal logo and the word 'SEO' with the 'O' replaced by the Drupal icon (druplicon).
Article

SEO in Drupal: an introduction

26 January, 2017
#Drupal
#SEO
#Tutorial

Drupal is absolutely the best CMS platform when it comes to SEO, but our clients don't seem to be aware of this so we finally decided to break it down.

The Convention Centre Dublin (CCD) - a large glass cylindrical building situated on Dublin's River Liffey.
Article

We went to DrupalCon 2016 in Dublin

3 October, 2016
#Drupal
#Press

Once again this year we had the ultimate pleasure of being guests in another exciting European city as we attending the first ever Drupal conference in Dublin.

Google Analytics running on an Apple MacBook.
Article

12 SEO top tips for better ranking with Drupal

1 June, 2016
#Drupal
#SEO

SEO. Search engine optimisation. Where to begin with the elusive task of search engine optimisation, around which an entire industry has formed?

A collection of screenshots from various online CSS resources.
Article

16 Awesome CSS Libraries and Resources

23 May, 2016
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript

In his usual wacky style Darren presents his 16 favourite resources for writing better CSS, streamlining your workflow or just having some good old fun!

The Drupal 8, Sass, Singularity, Breakpoint, Live Reload and Gulp logos in a row.
Article

How we got a custom Drupal 8 theme up and running with Sass, Singularity, Breakpoint, LiveReload and Gulp

11 April, 2016
#Drupal
#Frontend
#HTML, CSS & Javascript
#Tutorial

Can Drupal, Sass, Singularity, Breakpoint, LiveReload and Gulp all play nicely together? It took us a while to crack it so we thought we'd share our findings.

The attendees of DrupalCamp London 2016.
Article

We went to DrupalCamp London 2016

18 March, 2016
#Drupal
#Press

Every year the Drupal community meet up at various conferences and more localised camps. This weekend we attended one of the largest camps in the country.

Four female hurdle sprinters are leaping over the hurdles along the race track.
Article

Responsive Design Part 4: the drawbacks of responsive and how to overcome them

25 January, 2016
#Frontend

Are there any drawbacks of responsive design and if so what can we do to minimise the impact? We explore many of the concerns we've heard from clients.

Darren Fisher, Creative Director at Pivale digital transformation agency - a man with dark hair, a neat beard, moustache and glasses.

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