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Designing for Archivability

Nicholas Taylor — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:56:24 +0000

Web archives are a great way to reference or recover deprecated site content. You can help to ensure that old versions of your website will be faithfully preserved by designing for archivability.

Scrum Resources: Learn about Agile Project Management

Linnea Ann Williams — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:00:22 +0000

Welcome back! We're kicking off the new year with a post on Agile Project Management. I've been speaking a lot to folks recently about Scrum and how to think about incorporating it into your team structure.

One form of Agile project management, Scrum is an iterative development process that focuses the development team on the highest priority work and increases the product/project manager's ability to forecast timelines and delivery. For Web Services, it has improved our project estimates and helped us to work in a more focused way on our larger projects.

Using Stanford Web Forms in Drupal websites

Caryl J Westerberg — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:03:31 +0000

Stanford provides a flexible, easy-to-use web-based form service - a great free resource for site owners. According to the Web Forms Service website:

"Stanford community members can use the Stanford Web Forms service to make contact forms, short surveys and polls, instructor evaluations, and other forms free of charge. No knowledge of HTML, Javascript, or SQL is required.

Drupal Resources at Stanford

Caryl J Westerberg — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:24:56 +0000

The advent of open source technology brings a whole new world of opportunities previously unaccessible to most people. From general tools like web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, to specific tools such as Audacity for editing audio, and Gimp for image editing. All of these tools are freely available through the internet.