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Posted by John Bickar on Friday, February 13, 2015 - 2:00pm Adaptive Architecture: Leave Room to Evolve
Posted by Zach Chandler on Friday, December 12, 2014 - 6:55am All forward-thinking technologies share one attribute: the original designers intentionally build in opportunities for future users to innovate. It requires humility and a belief in the creativity of others. This is true for buildings, computers, networks, and other tools.
As...
Doing more with the editor, Part 1, adding CSS styles
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. ...
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...
How I learned the hard way to create reusable classes
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 9:00am Drupal is (in)famous for providing an egregious amount of class selectors to target every layer imaginable in its rendered HTML. Some superstar culprits are Field Collections, Field Groups, and complex Views. When we see so many handy, available selector classes, it's so tempting...
Troubleshooting the Field Group 7.x-1.4 Update
Posted by John Bickar on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 7:11am In July, 2014, the Field Group module was updated from 7.x-1.1 to 7.x-1.4 on Stanford Sites. This update has the potential to cause issues with CSS, as certain types of markup were removed from the HTML output of the page.
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Agile Project Management and its flavors: where does Scrum end and Kanban begin?
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 1:18pm Agile has become a big buzz word recently in the project management world. In this post, I'll try to clarify where some of the lines are being blurred between terms like Agile and Scrum, and what some of these terms actually mean.
Keep in mind while reading this that I am...
Using Display Suite to provide field-level permissions
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, July 28, 2014 - 8:00am Have you ever wanted to show only selected information on a content type to anonymous users and more information to authenticated users? It turns out that you can use Display Suite to provide field-level permissions for an entity.
In this post we'll show you an example...
Cherry Picking - Small Git lesson
Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 9:56am Small commits allow for big wins.
Something that I have been using a lot lately is GIT's cherry-pick command. I find the command very useful, and it saves me bunches of time. Here is a quick lesson on what it does and an example use case.
What...
Module of the Day: Path Redirect Import
Posted by John Bickar on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 6:02am Today we're going take a look at the Path Redirect Import module, which lets you import redirects in bulk into your Drupal site.
All of the modules described in this post are available on...
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