I provide web project strategy and guidance for Stanford departments looking to hire a vendor for custom web development. My clients receive a full-service experience that includes business analysis, technical review, needs assessment, research and writing, agency recruitment,...
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Getting Your Priorities in Order: An Agile Product Owner Overview
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 9:00am Last December, my coworker Zach Chandler wrote a great blog post on the core principles of Agile Project Management and how to think about them in relation to web development at Stanford. In Zach's "Be Careful What You Ask For" section he...
Getting Started on Sites: How to Add Images to Your Content
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, March 22, 2013 - 11:32am Welcome back! This is the fourth blog post in a series on how to create a Drupal 7 personal website using Stanford Sites....
Getting Started on Sites: How to Attach Documents to Your Content
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, March 15, 2013 - 9:00am Welcome back! This is the third blog post in a series on how to create a Drupal 7 personal website using Stanford Sites....
Less is More
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 5:17pm 
When it comes to reaching your readers, less is more. When you are adding blocks and content to your site, ask yourself, "Does this help my...
Getting Started on Sites: Configuring Your Personal Drupal Site
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, March 8, 2013 - 9:00am This is the second post in a series on creating your personal Drupal 7 site using Stanford Sites, a free service provided by Stanford Web Services. In the...
Expository Sketch is the New RFP
Posted by Zach Chandler on Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 9:56am At SWS, I have developed an improved method for vendor selection over “traditional RFP”, but it can take a little explaining—to clients and vendors alike—as to why it’s better, and why its worth the time investment.
Why change? To be honest, a couple of years ago we were pretty happy...
Getting Started on Sites: How to Request a Personal Drupal Site
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, March 1, 2013 - 9:00am This blog post is the first in a series on setting up your personal Drupal site on Stanford Sites.
The Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service is a free service for the Stanford community that provides centrally-maintained and...
Menu Tricks #1: Improve Site Navigation with Menu Blocks Module
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 2:59pm The main menu in Drupal is a very powerful tool when partnered with the right modules and configurations. The menu can be used to automate URLs, build breadcrumbs and create secondary navigation.
In this post, I'll be walking through a module that can help you use...
Things to ask before starting a website project
Posted by Sara Worrell Berg on Monday, January 28, 2013 - 5:11pm In my role as manager for Stanford Web Services, I'm often the first on our team to meet with faculty and staff who are interested in building a new website. Our team helps to support the Drupal 7 CMS "Stanford Sites" as a self-service tool, and we also...
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