Discover how a university web team and a digital agency came together to build a dashboard that helps 500 editors manage 130 Drupal sites—and what you should consider when designing dashboards for your own users.
What is a Stanford subtheme? Why is it useful? What kind of problems does it alleviate? Who is it best for? Come along on a subtheme journey from someone who just implemented one.
As more time passes from Backdrop CMS's fork from Drupal 10 years ago, in many ways the projects retain some solid similarities (content types, taxonomy, views, etc.) but in certain areas the projects have diverged more dramatically. Drupal marches further away from a post-end-of-life Drupal 7 and new features for Backdrop often answer the same questions in different ways (although not always).
University websites are full of valuable content, yet serving the needs of diverse audiences - from school-leavers to seasoned academics - remains a major challenge. How do we present the right information, in the right way, for everyone? And how can hundreds of content editors maintain consistency across such a digital ecosystem?
Let's review how to create a more effective design and improved user experience. First we seek to understand the user, content, and context, then we begin to define our IA. How? We ask thoughtful questions and assessing value to those questions. Once we develop a functional understanding, we conduct research, facilitate exercises, and create guiding artifacts. This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we will work adaptively to be more strategic.
This presentation helps move beyond theory and identifies the work you and your team can do to be more successful!
You will likely get many different answers if you asked any one person on a development team, designers, subject matter experts, or key stakeholders: "How do we measure the success of this project?" That can be a problem because people are working from too many directions to be considered a team effort.
Mercury Editor is a suite of Drupal modules that combine drag-and-drop editing, Drupal core's layout API, and the Paragraphs module to provide an accessible, easy-to-use authoring experience. Designed to empower marketing and editorial teams everywhere, Layout Paragraphs offers a WYSIWYG interface for publishing highly visual, long-form content.
In this session, we'll show how we’ve used Mercury Editor to empower marketing and editorial teams to build beautiful landing pages in Drupal.
Backdrop CMS famously forked from Drupal after version 7, but there is still an ongoing, informal conversation between the projects, and many developers that use Backdrop also have projects that use Drupal.
