All Things Web - Free Online May 2-3 2024
Have you noticed that most website homepages and landing pages look like layered cakes with content stacked one after another? How are these layered content pages built and managed?
In this session, I will discuss the use of Drupal blocks for prototyping page layouts, paragraphs for enhancing the content editing experience, and features for standardizing page layouts across multiple websites.
We will cover some basics on how to think about accessibility, followed by demos of websites with and without accessibility considerations, and round out with tips on how to design websites with accessibility in mind.
If you use the Paragraphs module and wish there was a way to more easily control the layout of referenced paragraphs on a particular node, this might be just what you were looking for. Entity Reference with Layout (ERL), a new module for Drupal 8, combines structured content (a la Paragraphs) with expressive layout control (a la Layout Discovery in core). Now you can quickly add new sections without leaving the content edit screen, choose from available layouts, add text or media to specific regions, drag them around, edit them, delete them, add more, and so on.
The Stanford Event Calendar (events.stanford.edu) is a homegrown Java web application. In this session, I will demo and discuss a current project to breath new life into a long-running web app with a front-end redesign using modern tools and UX principles. We’re moving from a front-end built in Bootstrap over 3 years ago to one based on a new Stanford pattern library, informed by user research, designed in Figma and built with Stanford’s new responsive front-end codebase called Decanter.
The new version of the site is scheduled to go live on May 17.
It's been seven years since the initial launch of Stanford Sites, the university's free and centrally-supported Drupal platform available to everyone at Stanford. Join us to learn more about plans for adding Drupal 8 as a service to this platform that hosts over 2,000 websites for groups and departments of all sizes as well as individual faculty, students, and staff.
The days of only developers building the web are long gone. Many of our faculty, staff, and students are looking to claim their own corner of the web. Learn how to equip the folks outside of IT with the resources and skills necessary for them to build confidently with the same standards we set for ourselves. This session will include a detailed demo of VPTL's Stanford Domains.
Panel discussion from the Stanford User Experience Community.
Please come to Happy Hour @ the Treehouse following the last session.
The Treehouse is located downstairs straight ahead, by the red umbrellas and lighted area.