Drupal 7.32 was released on October 15th to fix a critical security vulnerability. All Drupal 7 sites on sites.stanford.edu and people.stanford.edu were upgraded that day. On October 29th, a further...
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Hard vs soft configuration: Designing your distribution
Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Monday, October 27, 2014 - 8:30am In this article we are going to talk about what hard and soft configuration is and how to decide between the two when creating a distribution.
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Designing for Archivability
Posted by Nicholas Taylor on Monday, October 20, 2014 - 8:56am Web archives are a great way to reference or recover deprecated site content. You can help to ensure that old versions of your website will be faithfully preserved by designing for archivability.
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Stanford Sites Critical Update, October 2014
Posted by Sara Worrell Berg on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 12:29pm A critical security update for Drupal 7.x was released today, October 15. University IT is conducting unscheduled maintenance for all websites hosted on the Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service to mitigate this vulnerability, and no further...
Module of the Day: Stanford MetaTag NoBots - Hide your site from search engines!
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, October 13, 2014 - 9:00am When we launch a site at Stanford Web Services, we open the doors and roll out the red carpet for the search engines to index the site. However, before launch we like to keep the content under wraps and ask the search engines not to index the site. To do this, we use a module...
Stanford Sites Updates, October 2014
Posted by John Bickar on Monday, October 6, 2014 - 1:16pm IT Services and Administrative Systems will perform updates for all websites hosted on the Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service on the following date:
- Thursday, October 9th, from 4 - 8 a.m.
In this update, the Linux server...
Styling on Sites: Header Image Fun
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Monday, September 29, 2014 - 8:00am Recently a couple of clients wanted to add a background banner image to their site. This is a great option for a site that is more text heavy. With the administrator role, you can use CSS injector to make your site look unique.
The instructions listed here refer to...
Sites Superstar: Laboratory for Social Research
Posted by Sara Worrell Berg on Friday, September 19, 2014 - 1:07pm Our next Stanford Sites Superstar is the Laboratory for Social Research. The Laboratory for Social Research is a cutting edge research facility serving the faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars of...
New on Stanford Sites: Stanford BEAN Types module
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 8:29am Over the last year Stanford Web Services has been building reusable modules to make website building faster and better, and then adding them to Stanford Sites. This post highlights Stanford BEAN Types....
Getting Started on Sites: Remove Users Account Privileges
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 8:47am Let's say your co-worker left Stanford or the grad student working on your website is no longer here. I'll walk you through the steps to either remove their editing privileges or cancel their account.
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