News and Updates

Stanford Sites Update, July 2018

Alyssa Hislop — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 19:02:54 +0000

Starting July 12, new group and department websites requested on Stanford Sites will live in the cloud. These websites have new modules available to them. What are they and what do they do?

We're looking to hire a student intern!

Cynthia Mijares — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:14:48 +0000

Are you excited about the web and looking to learn more about how web products and projects unfold? Join the friendly and collaborative Stanford Web Services team!

Stanford Web Services (SWS) is an on-campus web design and development team offering:

web design, development, and production services;
oversight of university web branding, including themes and style guidelines; and
project consultation and guidance

Learn more at webservices.stanford.edu

Welcome to Stanford Drupal Camp 2018!

Sara Worrell Berg — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:41:05 +0000

Stanford Drupal Camp 2018 is already upon us!

The ninth annual Stanford Drupal Camp will be hosted at the Stanford Law School on April 6-7, 2018.

https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/

Happy holidays from SWS

Sara Worrell Berg — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:04:25 +0000

As 2017 draws to a close, the Stanford Web Services team is closing sprints, cleaning our desks (mostly), emptying inboxes, submitting our final timesheets, and hoping no one reports a bug in the next 24 hours. Goodbye 2017, hello winter break!

Drupal Camp 2017 Retrospective

Grace Kiburi — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 19:23:54 +0000

Stanford Drupal Camp is a two-day annual event that connects people in the South Bay who work with websites. The Camp started in 2009 to discuss the many facets of web design and development, as well as learn about Drupal, an open source content management system. The camp places an emphasis on introductory sessions for beginners, as well as use cases of Drupal in higher education. Beginners sessions take place on Fridays, while Saturday's sessions are designed for more experienced Drupal users.

Stanford Sites Updates, May/June 2017

Grace Kiburi — Tue, 23 May 2017 21:17:37 +0000

Websites on sites.stanford.edu and people.stanford.edu will be receiving updates from May 30 to June 1. University IT will be updating Drupal modules to maintain the security of all websites on Stanford Sites and ensure everyone continues to benefit from the latest community contributions. Updates start around 10PM Pacific and usually wrap up around 4AM, during which time your site may be unavailable for approximately 1 minute.

Stanford Sites Updates, December 2016

Kellie Alison Brownell — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:22:00 +0000

University IT will be rolling out a round of updates December 6th through 9th to all websites hosted on Stanford Sites. Updates start around 10PM Pacific and usually wrap up around 4AM, during which time your site may be unavailable for approximately 1 minute. If you have questions or experience issues with your Stanford Site, please contact us through University IT's new Services Portal at: https://stanford.service-now.com/it_services.

New Modules on Stanford Sites, September 2016

John Bickar — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000

As part of the Summer 2016 updates to Stanford Sites, we recently added several new modules that bring enhanced features and functionality to all users of the Stanford Sites service. This post is a highlight of the new modules added; detailed posts on several of them will follow.

New releases for Stanford Drupal themes, August 2016

Joe Knox — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:10:57 +0000

We’re excited to announce the August 2016 release of our updated mobile-responsive Drupal 7 themes:

Open Framework 7.x-2.5
Stanford Framework 7.x-3.2*
Stanford Wilbur 7.x-3.0*
Stanford Jordan 7.x-3.0*

Jumpstart User Guide 2.0

Alyssa Hislop — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:45:46 +0000

Today we’re launching our new Jumpstart User Guide! It’s now live at: https://sites-jumpstart.stanford.edu/jumpstart-user-guide

We revamped our User Guide, originally built in 2013 on the first version of Jumpstart. Since Jumpstart has experienced tremendous growth over the past three years, we implemented today's Jumpstart features and enhancements into our new User Guide.

Stanford Sites Updates, Summer 2016

John Bickar — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:00:00 +0000

(Post last updated on: 9/6/16, 10:30AM)

University IT will perform maintenance on all websites on the Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service approximately bi-weekly from July 26th through September 23rd. Details on what is included in each update window are below, and we will update this post as we have more information.

Stanford Sites Updates, June 2016

Sofie Van Creveld — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:00:00 +0000

University IT will perform maintenance on all websites on the Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service on the following dates:

Tuesday, June 28th (10PM to 4AM June 29th): Personal sites on people.stanford.edu
Wednesday, June 29th (10PM to 4AM June 30th): Group and department sites on sites.stanford.edu
Thursday, June 30th (10PM to 4AM July 1st): Group and department sites on sites.stanford.edu; development sites on sites-dev.stanford.edu and people-dev.stanford.edu

These changes are significant and include updating Drupal core to the latest release, as well as security-related module upgrades for both Drupal 6 and 7 sites. See below for a complete list of updated modules.

JSE Quick Strike or: How We Launched a New Stanford School of Engineering Website in 10 Weeks

Jamie C. Tsui — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:16:25 +0000

Three days after Stanford’s commencement on June 12th this year, we quietly launched a completely new website for Stanford’s School of Engineering. From start to finish, the web project took 10 weeks. This project included new design, new feature development, content migration, and feature and browser testing. In the end, the site launched smoothly with no downtime.

A Simply Awesome Markup Language

John Bickar — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:01:00 +0000

The modern web developer has a variety of markup languages available for use in different contexts: XML, HTML, YAML, Markdown - the list goes on and on. Yet each has its limitation(s), whether that be performance, readability, or ease-of-use.

That all changes today with the introduction of the Syntactically Accurate Markup Language (SAML).

Announcing Stanford Drupal Camp 2016!

Caryl J Westerberg — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:55:15 +0000

We are excited to announce that registration and session proposals are now open for Stanford Drupal Camp 2016!

https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/user/register