Joe is a Web Designer for the Stanford Web Services team. He joined the Stanford Web Services team as a Customer Experience Specialist in 2014, and has been at Stanford since 2012.
Joe is passionate about creative exchange, human-centered design, food, travel, health, and sports. Connect with him on Twitter @josephgknox.
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*
You can do a lot to improve the performance and user experience across your site by making use of your Google Analytics account. In this post, we'll cover five valuable standard reports that you can view for your site right now.
This post aligns with the Google Analytics set up and menu structure as of September 22, 2015.
Our team treasures productivity power tools and applications. Of all the tools that we’ve adopted, the one that has consistently proven critical to our workflow is GitHub. In this post, I'll share a few use cases related to why we luv Github and highlight an upcoming level-up opportunity.
When learning something new — no matter what it is — many of us move through the same levels of competence. In this post, we'll look at this progression of learning, and discuss how a focus on practice can lead to a more sustained level of self-awareness.
Have you ever wanted to try something new on your site, but wished you could view and experiment with it before making the change(s) live? You can! All you need is a development site. In this post we'll talk about how to request a dev site and why you might want to have one.
Google Analytics gives you critical insights that help drive innovation and evolution by showing you exactly how people are using your site. Understanding how your site is being used can aid in identifying where improvements can and should be made. This post will cover how to add Google Analytics to your Drupal site.
In this post, I'll share one of my take-aways from reading A Book Apart's Designing for Emotion, highlighting how infusing personality into the things we create can help produce emotionally engaging experiences that make long-lasting impressions on our audience.
University IT will perform updates for all websites hosted on the Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service on the following dates:
The changes are significant and include security patches and upgrades for both Drupal 6 and 7 sites. See below for a complete list of module updates.
We’ve got a first timer here! I attended the Higher Ed Summit at my first ever BADCamp this year. I learned about Drupal’s presence on numerous college campuses, software as a service, building tools, project management, and Drupal communities. Here are just a few of my take-aways.
Need to build and manage a website for university work? Want responsive and accessible themes that work well on phones, tablets, and desktop browsers? Looking for a self-service tool that requires little technical expertise and has all patches and upgrades handled at no cost? Stanford Sites is for you!
Post updated on May 20, 2015.
The Stanford Sites Drupal hosting service has many of the most popular Drupal modules and unique Stanford themes pre-installed. It’s customized for our academic environment and is available to current faculty, staff, and students free of charge, so you can use it to build your personal and department or group website.
As of fall 2014, there are more than 1,400 websites hosted on Stanford Sites, and all are monitored and securely maintained by University IT. Training and support are available as well.
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