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Getting Started on Sites: How to Add a Google Map to Your Website
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 9:07am Getting Started on Sites: Inserting Images in Your Content
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, July 26, 2013 - 10:02am Welcome back! This is the fifth blog post in a series on how to create a Drupal 7 personal website* using Stanford Sites....
Using Context to Add Blocks to a Region
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, July 8, 2013 - 9:00am You may be asking yourself, how do I add a block to a sidebar or other region, and how do I get it to display on the correct page? In this post I'll explain how to use the Context module to do just this.
Blocks are a great way to display content in a more structured way on...
Menu Tricks #3: Automating Virtual Menu Position for Specific Content Types
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 9:00am As a serious navigation advocate, it drives me crazy to have an active "Blog" or "Calendar" link in my main menu when I'm looking at the overview pages for that section, but then the active link goes away when I look at a specific Event or Blog Post. Am I in the Calendar section or not?
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Tips for selecting a Drupal vendor
Posted by Zach Chandler on Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 9:12am I provide web project strategy and guidance for Stanford departments looking to hire a vendor for custom web development. My clients receive a full-service experience that includes business analysis, technical review, needs assessment, research and writing, agency recruitment,...
Twitter and Facebook Widgets for Your Website
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 2:50pm Social media could be said to be the new "press release," a concise way to get your latest updates out to an interested audience. If you're using Twitter or Facebook, here are a couple of quick and easy ways to integrate your social media content into your website.
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Styling on Sites: Awesome Icons using Font Awesome
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, June 3, 2013 - 9:00am This is the fourth post in my series, Styling on Sites. In my last post we looked at the new responsive theme Open Framework, and how we...
Handling Spam in Drupal
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Friday, May 31, 2013 - 9:00am "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam". ~ Monty Python
Named after a lunch meat made of spiced ham, "spam" is used to describe unsolicited and unwanted bulk messages which are usually some sort of advertising. Sure you might be able to find a...
Styling on Sites: Introduction to Open Framework
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 9:00am This is the third post in my series, Styling on Sites. Last time we looked at how to use the great and powerful module, CSS Injector. In this post I'm going to introduce you to our new...
Using Display Suite to Place Node Fields in Blocks
Posted by John Bickar on Monday, May 20, 2013 - 10:25am Have you ever looked at a page layout and thought, "Hm, that sure is one long list of fields. It would be nice to be able to place some of that information in a sidebar (or in the footer, etc.)"
In this example, we want to move some of the "Contact Information" fields of an Event node...
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