Sarah Durham (00:02): Hey everybody. Welcome to today’s webinar. I am Sarah Durham, and I am going to briefly introduce my colleagues. They will talk a little bit more in a minute and also we’d love you to introduce yourself as people start to arrive. If you are comfortable doing so, you’ll see a …
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Adding a WYSIWYG to text fields in Drupal 8 and 9
Need to convert from plain text to formatted text? Learn how to add a WYSIWYG editor to a plain text field in Drupal 8 or 9 with a few lines of code.
Read more »How can you make your website friendlier and more accessible?
Sarah Durham and Amanda Luker discuss how to constantly improve your website, create different ways to experience content, and run accessibility audits of your nonprofit’s website. Learn how you can make your website friendlier to all users, including those who are differently-abled. Sarah Durham: Welcome to the smart communications podcast. I’m Sarah Durham and I’m …
Read more »Facing Drupal 7’s end-of-life like a tech rockstar: a nonprofit’s guide to success
Things aren’t going the way you planned. We’re now in a recession, the pandemic has caused unexpected challenges, and your budgets have been cut. Welcome to the summer of 2020. Still, your website is more important than ever. Your donors, clients, members, and advocates are expecting it to be up-to-date, easy-to-use, and bug-free. To add …
Read more »What must your website convey right now?
With COVID-19 dominating the news and our lives, we simply cannot go about business as usual. Your nonprofit doesn’t need to be in the healthcare sector to feel the pressure to translate programs and services, events, or volunteer coordination to an online experience. Given that your website is the first place people are turning to …
Read more »The Advomatic Team Reflects on Drupalcon and NTC 2018
Two weeks ago, the Advomatic team divided up and went to both Drupalcon in Nashville and the Nonprofit Tech Conference in New Orleans – they happened at the same time this year. (A few of us went to both!) The short story is: We had a great time and met a lot of people and …
Read more »DrupalCon Baltimore 2017: Thoughts on the community
I was fortunate enough to get to Baltimore for this year’s DrupalCon. Here’s a few takeaways regarding Drupal’s open-source community. The community is still strong. There has been some major turbulence recently with the dismissal of a community member from his position as DrupalCon track chair. It’s had repercussions about issues of both governance …
Read more »Infographic: Site Building in Drupal 8
We just launched our first Drupal 8 website for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA). During our project retrospective, a few of us brought up how nice it was that so many contrib modules that were part of the D6 site weren’t necessary in Drupal 8 – this was a major factor in making it possible to launch …
Read more »Building Sites in Drupal 8: First Impressions
We recently finished building our first Drupal 8 site for a client. So I wanted to ask our team, “What did you like about working in Drupal 8?” These were some of the topics they touched on. Content editing Amanda: The UI for editing content is very good, with contextual links much more useful …
Read more »Drupal 8: Migrate from Drupal 6 with a custom process plugin
When migrating a site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, we had to write some very basic "Plugins". Since plugins and some of their related pieces are new to Drupal 8, here is a walk-through of how we put it together
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