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Top 6 things to do while your cache clears on its own

Linnea Williams profile pic Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Monday, June 23, 2014 - 3:05pm

Caches are a great tool, they store your website's database and code information in a way that loads much faster. But they DO mean that your changes don't appear right away.


Where are my changes?


One of the things we here at Stanford Web Services get emailed about...

pushd, dirs, and popd

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Monday, June 9, 2014 - 4:49am

If you spend a lot of your day at the command line (as I do), you're constantly on the lookout for new tools and tricks to increase your productivity and efficiency. Today we're going to take a look at the pushd suite of commands...

Scaling Drupal for Higher Ed Institutions - SWS at DrupalCon Austin

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 6:40am

Linnea Williams and I participated in the "Scaling Drupal for Higher Ed" panel discussion at DrupalCon Austin on June 5th, 2014.


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Overriding Open Framework Styles: Responsive styling

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, May 19, 2014 - 8:57am

In this post, I continue my series on how to override Open Framework's default styles to get a more custom look-and-feel on your site....

Module of the Day: JS Injector

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Monday, May 12, 2014 - 9:09am

Today's "Module of the Day" is a handy little module called JS Injector that allows you to insert snippets of Javascript into your site.


In this post, I'll walk through how to enable and configure the module, use it to shout...

3 Tips for Making Your Drupal Features Highly Reusable

a face for radio Posted by Zach Chandler on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 8:00am

Dear Developers, if you follow these simple guidelines, your Drupal Features will be much more useful to institutions like Stanford over time. You will win friends and influence people. Drupal will live up to its...

Overriding Open Framework Styles: Block styles, Sidebar Menus, and Regions

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, April 7, 2014 - 9:06am

In this post, I continue my series on how to override Open Framework's default styles to get a more custom look-and-feel on your site....

Creating a Static Copy of a Website

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Monday, March 17, 2014 - 10:09am

The modern Web is a dynamic place. However, sometimes it's necessary (or desirable) to remove the dynamic functionality of a website, while preserving its static content.


Inspired in part by Karen Stevenson's excellent blog post, "...

Create a Page Title From the Views Exposed Filter Term

Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, March 10, 2014 - 8:18am

Suppose you're using taxomomy terms in exposed filters, and you want the resulting page to display one of the the terms as a title. Taxonomy term pages will give this to you very easily, but sometimes the taxonomy term page is not the right solution.  Here's how you can display...

Overriding Open Framework Styles: Customizing your typography

Megan Erin Miller Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, March 3, 2014 - 9:01am

In this post, I continue my series on how to override Open Framework's default styles to get a more custom look-and-feel on your site....

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