Decoupling with Drupal has been a topic of much discussion in recent years. With the shift towards more projects being built for multi-channel experiences including mobile apps, wearable devices, digital signage and others, Drupal’s powerful capabilities of flexibility around structured data and editorial experience have worked hard to adapt.
We are developing our Drupal 8 contribution module, Cloud by practicing Scrum for Agile software development. I'll introduce the background story of the reason why we could successfully achieve our super-fast paced development with higher productivity.
The Agenda:
Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. It is a faster and less-complex version of Drupal 7 with more features you want, and fewer you don't.
This session will highlight the Backdrop Mission, it's intended audience, and it's guiding principles.
We'll explain the decision making process, introduce the Project Management Committee, and expand on how the project's direction is set by the needs of the whole community.
We'll cover topics like how we handle Security and Stability, and talk about how we're trying to decrease the cost of long-term website ownership.
Come see Backdrop CMS in action.
This session will demonstrate some of the kinds of things you can do with Backdrop core alone. We'll walk through site-building tasks that showcase some of the differences between Backdrop and Drupal, but mostly you'll see how similar the two projects are.
University Communications is currently developing a new Stanford-branded WordPress theme, Redwood, which will be available to the Stanford community later this year. Redwood will replace the Cardinal and Lagunita themes as the recommended theme for Stanford-branded websites. Redwood is built with Stanford's new pattern library, Decanter.
A session highlighting best practices around presenting data visually.
Have you noticed that most website homepages and landing pages look like layered cakes with content stacked one after another? How are these layered content pages built and managed?
In this session, I will discuss the use of Drupal blocks for prototyping page layouts, paragraphs for enhancing the content editing experience, and features for standardizing page layouts across multiple websites.
We will cover some basics on how to think about accessibility, followed by demos of websites with and without accessibility considerations, and round out with tips on how to design websites with accessibility in mind.
If you use the Paragraphs module and wish there was a way to more easily control the layout of referenced paragraphs on a particular node, this might be just what you were looking for. Entity Reference with Layout (ERL), a new module for Drupal 8, combines structured content (a la Paragraphs) with expressive layout control (a la Layout Discovery in core). Now you can quickly add new sections without leaving the content edit screen, choose from available layouts, add text or media to specific regions, drag them around, edit them, delete them, add more, and so on.
