There is a lot to know to add content to a webpage and it can seem overwhelming. Here are a few tactics to make your website more accessible, future-proofed, and user-friendly. These are small things you can do that have big payouts. No coding skill required! As an author of a website, you actually have […]
Starting the week of July 1, 2024, you won’t be able to access any Universal Analytics (the old version of Google Analytics) properties and all data will be deleted by Google. If you want to keep historical data, you need to export your data out of the Google Analytics interface. How to Export Your Data […]
In the CKEditor (this is the box you type in to add content to your website), you have the option to switch to the source code. This view will show you the HTML of your content. I use the source code view to troubleshoot unexpected layout or add classes to HTML elements. However, there is […]
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Preview Link
The preview link option allows you to share an unpublished page with stakeholders and not require them to log into the site. While there are other options for creating a review process in Drupal, this is the easiest ad-hoc option. Preview Link works with all types of content, however there is a catch. With our […]
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Authoring Basics in Drupal 10
A lot has changed with Drupal 10, with more robust layout options, easier ways to build out a webpage and more. If you’re someone who only logs onto your website a few times a year, a whole new system is a lot to learn. I’ve tried to highlight the most impactful changes for authors to […]
Layout Builder will replace Paragraph Bundles as the tool for building out webpages in OSU Drupal 9. We have also added the additional functionality of Bootstrap Layout Builder. This module gives us a lot more options than our paragraph bundles in Drupal 7 did. Hello 4 column layouts and much more! Creating Layouts My thought […]
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Configuring Sitemap in Drupal
A sitemap is instructions to a search engine telling it where to crawl your website. This will ensure that search engines will find all the relevant content of your site an display it in search results. Check out Google’s guide of how Google Search works to learn exactly how crawling works. If you create a […]
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Bulk Operations View
You can create a view that allows you to update multiple items at once. This functionality can be very powerful and can save you a lot of time updating content. While you can perform all these actions from the content landing page, it can be nice to create a view for a specific content type. […]
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CSS Teach Yourself Resources
General References Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has a great reference for CSS. Any property you want to know, it’s there. I use this for HTML Dog has a CSS reference. I like how they explain shorthand properties, such as background. I find their layout for those more complex properties more readable. The CSS Cascade is […]
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Basic Metadata Settings
In an ideal world, every page on your website would have perfect metadata to feed the algorithms. Since most of us are operating on limited time and resources, we need to be strategic about giving the royal treatment to pages based on how much they contribute to your website’s key strategies or if it will […]