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Sat, 04/03/2021 - 07:33

Storage Entities: More Elegant Content Modelling Through the Drupal UI

One of the strengths of Drupal has long been its ability to easily model complex content architectures. The ability to quickly configure and manage a variety of content types with distinct collections of fields and other configurations makes Drupal an excellent choice for structured and robust handling of a multitude of different kinds of data.

Wed, 10/28/2020 - 07:35

Building on Drupal's Admin Experience: In-Context Content Creation

When I think about the admin experience of Drupal, I often think about context. 

As a longtime Drupal user, it's easy enough for me to know that wherever I am in a Drupal site, there's a predictable spot in the admin menu where I can select a content type and start creating content. For people new to Drupal, or even new to the concept of managing website content, this is nowhere near as obvious. Training will help, but we can also employ the principle of multimodal interaction to provide additional options in ways that will be more obvious.

Tags

  • Admin Experience
  • Drupal
Mon, 10/26/2020 - 14:17

The New Faces of Drupal: Theming with Sascha Eggenberger

The designer behind Gin and a key contributor to Claro talks about the future of Drupal's user interface.

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  • Drupal
Sat, 10/24/2020 - 11:58

Exciting Developments in the Drupal Tech Stack

The JAMstack seems to be what's getting a lot of press lately, but there's actually a lot to be excited about in the Drupal technology stack of late.

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  • Drupal
  • PHP
Sat, 10/24/2020 - 10:28

Interview with Code Enigma

We talked about Drupal, community, leadership, and more. 

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  • Drupal
Thu, 10/08/2020 - 14:57

Thoughts on the Drupal Admin Experience (AX)

Something I've been passionate about for a while has been the admin experience we create to support the sites we build in Drupal. I remember a while ago noticing that particularly for site I was building for less technical clients, I would often spend at least as much time making the content editor experience easy to use as I spent on the public face of the site.

There were a few key principles that guided me:

Tags

  • Admin Experience
  • Drupal
Thu, 10/08/2020 - 12:10

Using Cockpit to Manage Your Linux Server

As part of my recent work in setting up a Raspberry Pi as a web server, I came across mention of the Cockpit project as an easy-to-use, browser-based UI to help manage your web server.

Tags

  • Linux
  • Raspberry Pi
Wed, 09/30/2020 - 07:54

Making A Pi Server

The idea: set up an inexpensive Raspberry Pi as a web server, for personal projects.

Upcoming Talks

Simplifying Your Admin Experience

When
Sat, May 1 2021, 10 - 10:45am
Where
Stanford WebCamp 2021

We often talk about UX as a focus on making a site intuitive and easy-to-use for anonymous visitors, or perhaps registered users who need manage their account, make a purchase, and so on. But what about the people who will use your site most? While an engaged visitor might return to your site 3-5 times a month, a site admin use the site that many times a week, or more!

Site Search and Relevance (BOF)

When
Sat, May 1 2021, 12 - 12:45pm
Where
Stanford WebCamp 2021

For many sites, internal search is critical functionality and heavily relied upon by visitors. But often, there's little consensus about how and when to test the quality of results, or the best ways to optimize the results on an ongoing results. I have specific example to share that relate to Drupal and Solr, but intend to discuss principles that should apply more broadly to a variety of technologies.

Recent Talks

Add a Robust Events System to Your Drupal Site in Minutes

When
Fri, Apr 16 2021, 10:35 - 11:05am
Where
DrupalCon 2021

Managing dates and times can be complex: with timezones, daylight savings time, leap years, and even regional formatting differences, there's a lot to manage. On top of all that, the editors on your site are familiar with feature-rich calendar software from the likes of Google, Apple, and Microsoft, and will expect your site to follow their conventions.

Manually Curated Solr Search Results

When
Tue, Apr 13 2021, 11:45am - 12pm
Where
DrupalCon 2021

Drupal has a mature and robust integration with Apache Solr for enterprise-quality site search. That said, some competing search solutions give editors the ability to manually curate results for popular searches.

The Search Overrides modules allows you to offer this functionality with Drupal. Anyone with the necessary permissions can promote or exclude content for specific searches, and drag-and-drop multiple results to provide the exact set of results that will best meet the needs of your visitors.

Manually Curated Solr Search Results

When
Thu, Apr 8 2021, 4:30 - 7:30pm
Where
SFDUG

Drupal has a mature and robust integration with Apache Solr for enterprise-quality site search. That said, some competing search solutions give editors the ability to manually curate results for popular searches.

The Search Overrides modules allows you to offer this functionality with Drupal. Anyone with the necessary permissions can promote or exclude content for specific searches, and drag-and-drop multiple results to provide the exact set of results that will best meet the needs of your visitors.

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