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A better search for Drupal

Shea McKinney Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 11:00am

Drupal comes with a built in search module that provides some pretty basic search options. Like everything else we do, we ask ourselves, "how can this be better?" One of our recent projects has given us the opportunity to evaluate some new options for search. 


Note: This...

Getting Started on Sites: Adding Google Analytics to Your site

Posted by Joe Knox on Monday, February 2, 2015 - 9:00am

Google Analytics gives you critical insights that help drive innovation and evolution by showing you exactly how people are using your site. Understanding how your site is being used can aid in identifying where improvements can and should be made. This post will cover how to add...

Rock your Resolution: Tips on self-directed learning

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Friday, January 16, 2015 - 9:00am

Welcome back! It's a new year, and that means you probably have some New Year's Resolutions on a sticky near your computer (I have about ten). If one of the goals on your list to learn Photoshop or how to code, then as a seasoned overachiever – I mean, self-driven, life-long...

Happy Holidays from Stanford Web Services!

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Friday, December 19, 2014 - 8:15am

2014 has been a blast. We are so grateful to get to work with so many talented and dedicated colleagues around the university (and beyond!). We wish you happy holidays over the winter break, and we'll see you in 2015!


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Designing With Emotion and Personality in Mind

Posted by Joe Knox on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 8:50am

In this post, I'll share one of my take-aways from reading A Book Apart's Designing for Emotion, highlighting how infusing personality into the things we create can help produce emotionally engaging experiences that make long-lasting impressions on our...

Getting Started on Sites: Creating a New View Mode

Cynthia Mijares Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, December 5, 2014 - 8:21am

Drupal has a couple of standard ways to display content using a Default view or a Teaser view display. Stanford Web Services uses View modes to create multiple image/Field Collection displays and allows the site builder to change how fields will be displayed. 


Enabling...

Doing more with the editor, Part 1, adding CSS styles

Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Friday, November 21, 2014 - 8:18am

Have you ever wanted to put a border on an image or highlight a link for more information in a text field? It is possible to configure the  Styles dropdown menu in your WYSIWYG editor to allow you to add styles to the content in a text field. ...

Stanford Sites Updates, December 2014

Posted by Joe Knox on Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 10:57am

University IT will perform updates for all websites hosted on the Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service on the following dates:


  • Friday, December 5th, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

  • Saturday, December 6th, from 4 a.m. - 8 a.m.

  • Sunday, December...

Hey BADCamp-ers! Want to work at Stanford?

Sara Worrell-Berg Posted by Sara Worrell Berg on Friday, November 7, 2014 - 7:16am

Are you at BADCamp this weekend? Want to talk about opportunities for web-savvy folks at Stanford?


We want to talk to you, too!


It’s a great time to be working on the web, particularly in Drupal, at Stanford - there are over 100...

Roundup: Getting Started on Sites

Posted by Joe Knox on Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 9:00am

Need to build and manage a website for university work? Want responsive and accessible themes that work well on phones, tablets, and desktop browsers? Looking for a self-service tool that requires little technical expertise and has all patches and upgrades handled at no cost?...

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