Another automation we did for Programming Librarian, a site for librarians to plan educational programs, involved events. They wanted to always feature 3 events on the home page, and the most important events were in the future. If their schedule is full, they wanted 2 future and 1 past event visible -- but they don't always have upcoming events, so there might be 0, 1 or 2 future events, and 3, 2, or 1 past events.
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Automatically show this month and next month in a perpetual calendar
One of our clients is Programming Librarian, a site for librarians to plan educational programs. Programs, like many events, are often seasonal, oriented around holidays and seasonal activities.
🕑Aug 24, 2024 🖋John Locke
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The rising costs of site ownership
How much do you spend on your website? I'm not asking how much it cost you to create/build -- I mean day to day, what does it cost to own and maintain your site?
And what happens if you stop paying that?
🕑Apr 16, 2023 🖋John Locke
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Deploying blocks and content to other site environments
If you have a current Drupal site (built in Drupal 8 or later) you no longer need to entirely rebuild your site -- ever again. That doesn't mean it couldn't use a freshening up now and then.
🕑Aug 28, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Progressive Enhancements: Manage data
Websites can do more than "just" present information. Do you have some sort of data management task that involves a lot of manual work?
🕑Aug 23, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Progressive Enhancements: Improve data entry and user interactions
Websites can do far more than just present information. Many business applications have moved onto the web, and with a CMS like Drupal in the back end, your website itself can be an integral part of your business.
🕑Aug 17, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Expressing complex systems of information
It's great to boil down information into simple bite-sized chunks. But for so many kinds of information, it's just not that simple. Ecological systems. Policy decisions. Your body. Your website.
🕑Aug 08, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Progressive Enhancements with VueJS and Drupal
In April I gave a talk about Progressive Enhancements at the national DrupalCon 2022 conference in Portland. Here's a recording of the full session, which was targeted towards Drupal developers.
🕑Apr 06, 2020 🖋John Locke
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Technical Debt and CMS maintenance
As we onboard a slew of new clients due to our joining
🕑Feb 27, 2020 🖋John Locke
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WordPress vs Drupal is like Word vs Excel
Seems like every day this month I've answered the same question: Why should I use Drupal instead of WordPress? And this is the answer I've come up with. They are entirely different applications, about as different as Microsoft Word is from Microsoft Excel.
🕑Jun 11, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Layout Builders versus Content Management - are you making this mistake?
Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.
🕑May 08, 2019 🖋John Locke
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Assessment of May 8 Drupal Security update SA-CORE-2019-007
New versions of Drupal core dropped today, to fix a file handling issue.
After assessing the patches, statements, and risks associated with this update, we have decided this is an important update to apply, but not urgent for most of the sites we manage.
