Here are just a few sneaky features that I use that help editing and updating pages go a little bit more smoothly. Resizing the Layout Builder sidebar You can resize the Layout Builder sidebar to give yourself some more breathing room working with all the settings. I’ve circled in red where you can click and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are 1,0001 newsletters out there for front-end web work. It can get overwhelming to not only choose, but if you subscribe to those 1,001 newsletters, your inbox will get even more overwhelming than it already is. Honorable Mentions I don’t subscribe to these, but have in the past. It isn’t because these are “bad.” […]