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You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!

Day 17 - Error Identification and Suggestions

You're checking out on an e-commerce site. You click Submit, and the page reloads with an error message at the top: "There were errors in your submission." That's it. No indication of which fields have problems. No explanation of what's wrong. You start hunting through the form, checking each field, trying to figure out what went wrong.

This frustrating experience is unfortunately common, especially on e-commerce sites, membership portals, and complex forms. But it's also completely avoidable - and fixing it makes your site accessible and more usable for everyone.

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ECA model showing how to pull in an AI Chat action to moderate comments on a website

Day 23 - Automatically moderate comments using AI

When you allow the general Internet to post comments, or any other kind of content, you're inviting spam and abuse. We see far more spam comments than anything relevant or useful -- but when there is something relevant or useful, we want to hear it!

With the AI module and the Events, Conditions, and Actions module, you can set up automatic comment moderation.

Like any use of AI, setting an appropriate prompt is crucial to getting a decent result. Here's the one we're trying out:

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Do people who visit your website become your customers?

The reality is that a website visit does not necessarily actually lead to more money in your cash drawer, unless you are conducting e-commerce or selling ads. Admittedly, this website visit has some value regarding awareness. However, customers are being inundated with information in today’s society. The best websites take existing website traffic and turn these visits into potential new customers. This process is called “Website Conversion”.

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Getting the group into the URL with Purl

The corners of Drupal 8 that aren't there are quickly dwindling, but there are still some that need to get worked out. While upgrading our internal issue tracker, we hit a new one -- getting a group context set via a URL alias, and generally keeping posts within a group.

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