Drupal Site Building

Video: Kim's DrupalGov Canberra 2014 presentation.

Get started with some quick and easy ways to improve the content editor experience, using contributed modules.

Our client had some very specific requirements for their project. They needed to be able to insert links to files and they needed to keep the same URL for those files even if the file changed. Those familiar with Drupal will know that by default, Drupal will suffix the newer version of the filename with _0, _1 etc which obviously breaks the URL. Here's how we worked around the issue...

Pamela Barone presents her DrupalSouth Wellington talk at Jam's (virtual) DrupalCamp.

User Experience is a much misunderstood discipline. For a start, in software and web development, we generally think of it as a design task, for design wonks, or some kind of process prior to real development where we determine some user needs or requirements. In particular, within web development, user experience is treated either as a step in a process, or a specialised skill, but almost never as a holistic development vision.

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Like everything in Drupal, there is a slight learning curve when you make the leap to using Panels for your Drupal sitebuilding. This article aims to give you a brief and broad introduction to theming practices used when using Panels and its popular helper modules as your main site-building tools.

aGov is a Drupal distribution built to address the accessibility, security and design guidelines for Australian Government sites. In a previous blog, I talked about some of the benefits aGov has for public sector agencies trying to do more with less in the online environment. In this post, I'm going to show you are practical example of building a micro-site using aGov, to show you how easy, and quick, it is to get up and running.

We're going to be building a site for a government initiative, but you could easily use the same methodology for a smaller public sector agency, a special event, an informational site, or a minister.

aGov is a common, open platform for digital publishing, providing real incentives for public sector agencies to collaborate and innovate.

With a broad feature set covering compliance basics, such as WCAG, AGLS metadata, and basic security improvements, aGov also has some very nice features which help agencies to meet those requirements in a more effective way. PreviousNext Drupal Consultant and public sector specialist Chris Skene explains how...