2017 Sessions

Past Sessions: 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013
Presentations and supporting links can be found below.

Presentation Slides
Image Annotations using Drupal & Mirador
Harry Shyket, Seong-June Kim
Exploring the IIIF implementation of the Mirador viewer using Drupalfor the Life of the Buddha and Ten Thousand Rooms sites.
Basics of Accessible Configuration and Development
Michael Harris
Yale is home to a diverse group of students, faculty, and staff. The Yale community includes individuals of different countries, cultures, religions, language proficiencies, races, genders, sexualities, abilities, and disabilities. Learn about this diversity and how to craft content that is... more
Designing and Sub-theming for YaleSites
Dana Lipnickas, Mark Saba, Chao Hang Lu
Dana will talk about doing legwork and meeting with clients to present idea of building off of YaleSites. Mark will talk about determining cost-effective ways of producing visual designs based on those themes. Chao will show how you sub-theme for a specific design.
How Visible Are your Events
James Tucciarone III
How visible are your events? Do you currently maintain an independent, siloed calendar? Maintaining your group’s calendar events through the primary university calendar system allows for improved publicity, event submission processes, and sharing of events. Join this session to learn how the... more
Online News Best Practices
Zoe Keller
3 Topics in Online News Readership and Best Practices • How people find, read/watch, and share online news • Impact of social media and mobile usage • Headline length and article length
Social Optimization
Mark Stricker
As social media (especially Facebook) drives more traffic to websites, learn how to optimize your site to ensure that its content can be easily shared on various social media channels.  
State of YaleSites
Franz Hartl
Take Your Best Shot
Kimberly Pasko, Christine Mongillo, Attila Tobias
Learn about images, photography and websites in this session so you can learn how to take your best shot. Kimberly will be speaking on techniques to consider when taking your best shot. Attila will talk about challenges in dealing with large images, as with the It’s Your Yale homepage. Chris... more
The Future of Drupal and Content Delivery
Harry Shyket
Looking at the future of Drupal 8 and how content can be deliveredto different platforms
The Hidden Rules of our Digital Life
Andrew Golis
Learn how platforms and technology can create hidden rules for our identities, communities and institutions. Discover how to identify andwork around those rules to build things that really matter.
Usability Testing: The DIY Method
Sylvia Perez
  UX Researcher explains the basic components of usability testingand leads an exercise demonstrating how to conduct a test on yourown.   UX Researcher explains the basic components of usability testingand leads an exercise demonstrating how to conduct a test on yourown.  
Why choose Yale Sites?
Danielle Casioppo
Thinking about a website for your department or group? Join me as I map out my experiences with YaleSites over the last four years beginning with building our website in 2013 (having no previous web experience) to updating to the 2016 themes for a fresh look and feel. And most recently completing... more
YaleSites Themes: Building for the User
Carris Toupin
User experience is about providing easy and enjoyable interactionsfor your users. This presentation will discuss UX best practices toconsider when working with a template or theme.