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Getting Started on Sites: How to Add Images to Your Content
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, March 22, 2013 - 11:32am Getting Started on Sites: How to Attach Documents to Your Content
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Friday, March 15, 2013 - 9:00am Welcome back! This is the third blog post in a series on how to create a Drupal 7 personal website using Stanford Sites....
Expository Sketch is the New RFP
Posted by Zach Chandler on Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 9:56am At SWS, I have developed an improved method for vendor selection over “traditional RFP”, but it can take a little explaining—to clients and vendors alike—as to why it’s better, and why its worth the time investment.
Why change? To be honest, a couple of years ago we were pretty happy...
Menu Tricks #2: Automating Page URLs Based on Menu Position
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Monday, February 25, 2013 - 12:48pm In my last post on Menu Tricks, I outlined a module called Menu Block, that...
Styling on Sites: Introduction to CSS Injector
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 2:55pm This is the second post in my series titled Styling on Sites. Last time, we looked...
Menu Tricks #1: Improve Site Navigation with Menu Blocks Module
Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 2:59pm The main menu in Drupal is a very powerful tool when partnered with the right modules and configurations. The menu can be used to automate URLs, build breadcrumbs and create secondary navigation.
In this post, I'll be walking through a module that can help you use...
Things to ask before starting a website project
Posted by Sara Worrell Berg on Monday, January 28, 2013 - 5:11pm In my role as manager for Stanford Web Services, I'm often the first on our team to meet with faculty and staff who are interested in building a new website. Our team helps to support the Drupal 7 CMS "Stanford Sites" as a self-service tool, and we also...
Need to Sort a View in a Specific Order?
Posted by Cynthia Mijares on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 1:44pm Often we run into a common problem where clients want to have their Staff listed in a particular order not just ascending or descending alphabetically. We can easily solve this using a great module called Draggable Views. I love using...
Creating Proportional Typography Using Webfonts on Sites
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, January 7, 2013 - 5:17pm It's a great time to be a web designer, as we have this explosion of web fonts at our finger tips. Tools such as Google Web Fonts make these available for free, and integrating them is easy on your site, even on...
Content Comes First
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, December 17, 2012 - 5:07pm Often when we hear that little voice in the back of our minds, "Wouldn't it be great to have a new website?" what we're really thinking is, "Wouldn't it be great to have a new look for our website." While getting a fresh style or "skin" for your site is absolutely a valid reason to want...
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