Building Flexible Pages with Drupal
Michael Harris
This presentation will cover advanced content type configuration to allow for building more dynamic and interesting Drupal web pages, such as those seen on the new release of the Yale.edu website. Modules discussed include:
CCK Block
Field as Block
Display Suite
Paragraphs
Entity Reference
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CampusPress: Quick and Easy Website Creation with WordPress
Pamela Patterson
WordPress started as a blogging system and has evolved as a full content management system with thousands of plugins, widgets and themes. Limited only by your imagination and tech chops. – https://wordpress.org/about/
This session will show you how to create a WordPress site on Campuspress.... |
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Case Study: Chaplain and Hindu Life at Yale Sites
Christian Maxwell
Demonstration of these sites and how I adjusted the YaleSites themes and content to give them slightly different look.
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Chaplain Website, Hindu Life at Yale |
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Content Strategy: Establishing a Plan for Successful Website Content
Adriana Corona, Julienne Hadley
In this session, attendees will learn the importance of planning for the creation and governance of useful web content.
Presenters include Adriana Corona, Senior Experience Designer, and Julienne Hadley, Senior Digital Producer, who combine their knowledge of usability and project management to... |
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Drupal Rules
Elijah Davis
This session will focus on sending automated mass emails to users, that are triggered by things that happen within your website.
The example site I will be using is a system for connecting parents with babysitters.
Examples.
New job posted by parent. Email sent to all registered babysitters (... |
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Google Analytics - Basics
Josue Rodriguez
Learn the key concepts of Google Analytics for tracking the activity on your YaleSite.
In this session we’ll cover some key metrics, what they are, why they are important, and where to find them in Google Analytics. Metrics to be covered include
Users, new, returning
Bounce Rate and what is... |
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Google Tag Manager and YaleSites: The Next Step for Google Analytics
Steven Wieda
Google Tag Manager can revolutionize how you collect statistics on your YaleSite. But what exactly does it do, and how can you use it? This presentation takes a look at what Google Tag Manager does and specifically applies it to gathering web statistics. It includes a demonstration that will show... |
Yale University Library
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Harnessing the Power of Views
Alina Nevins
Views are an extremely powerful tool in Drupal. Add content to the site and configure it to display in a list as a page or anywhere you want as a block. No need to add a link to your content on multiple pages, Drupal can do this automatically for you based on a specific field of your choice. For... |
Harnessing the Power of Views - Slides, Harnessing the Power of Views - Slides with Presentation Notes |
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Institutional Search: Google Custom Search, Solr, and Drupal Default Search
James Tucciarone III
Session to provide an overview of YaleSites supported search technologies with a focus on Drupal’s core search, Google Custom Search, and Acquia Solr.
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Newsletters
Lisa Brennan
How to build a newsletter on your Drupal 7 site with a coordinating mailing from MailChimp.
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Fox International Fellowship Newsletter, The MacMillan Center Newsletter (Spring 2015), The MacMillan Center Newsletter (Fall 2015) |
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Project Lifecycle - It's Your Yale
Dana Lipnickas
Yale Finance, Human Resources and Administration sites will all combine into one web experience this summer. This presentation will review the project’s lifecycle. Video of presentation
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Selecting YaleSites Themes
Nancy Flowers-Mangs
YaleSites is launching 2016 themes in conjunction with the yale.edu redesign. Same layout and structure, but color and font styles that reflect the new design. I’ll show you the themes and demonstrate how to change from the existing sites.
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Using ReactJS and Drupal to build an interactive kiosk
Harry Shyket
This presentation will look at ideas for building a kiosk with React and Drupal. React is an open-source JavaScript library developed by Facebook to build components for displaying in HTML. We will explore building the frontend features with React and then pulling down content that was created... |
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Visual Design Principles
Mark Saba
I will highlight the basic principles of design and how they apply to web design, including considerations of balance, hierarchy, and color, as well as the density and appropriate use of text and images. As our digital world becomes more complicated, simplicity, brevity, and clarity become more and... |
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Web Accessibility for Content Creators
Michael Harris
An overview of web accessibility, including some helpful tips for content creators.
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