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Photo of John Bickar 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 software will be upgraded from Debian "Squeeze" to Debian "Wheezy".

No downtime is expected.

If you experience issues with your website hosted on Stanford Sites, please submit a HelpSU request. We will respond as soon as possible.

Cynthia Mijares 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 themes where header background image is not an option.  If you are using the Stanford Light theme, you can easily add a background image to the header from the theme options.

Preparing the image

There are a couple ways to host your image online:

Sara Worrell-Berg 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 Stanford’s Sociology Department.

Linnea Williams profile pic 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.

Cynthia Mijares 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.

After logging in the your website, navigate to the People page.  In Stanford Sites Jumpstart products, go to the Site Actions menu and choose Manage Users.

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