For our first sponsored contribution time, we will be focusing on efforts to improve the usability of Drupal’s administration UI. We chose this because there are some deliverables we beleive we can achieve within six months that will make Drupal better and benefit our existing clients.
There are many good reasons for Drupal-focused organizations to contribute to Drupal, but for Lullabot, it comes down to these:
When Microsoft killed off Internet Explorer in June of 2022, front-end developers breathed a sigh of relief. IE's death meant that the development of lots of exciting features in CSS could now be fully supported across all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) without worrying about IE compatibility.
Keeping a Drupal site up-to-date can be tricky and time consuming. Host Matt Kleve sits down with three people in the Drupal community who have been working to make that process easier and faster.
It's been in progress for awhile, but now you might be able to start using Automatic Updates on your Drupal Site.
One of the nice things about front-end web development as a career choice is that the software and coding languages are available on every modern machine. It doesn’t matter what operating system or how powerful your machine is. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will run pretty well on it. This lets a lot of us in the industry bypass the need for formal education in computer science.
Unfortunately, this also has the side effect of leaving little gaps in our knowledge here and there, especially in strategies like bitmasking, which are seldom used in web development.
In our previous article, we went over the basics of how Drupal handles revisions and content moderation. But one of Drupal's strengths is what we call "structured content" and its ability to implement complex content models, as opposed to a big blob of HTML in a WYSIWYG field. Entities can have lots of different fields. Those fields can refer to other entities that also have lots of other fields. It is easy to establish content relationships.
Out of the box, Drupal offers some great tools for content moderation and basic editorial workflows. It is simple and flexible by design because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for every organization and editorial team. Drupal prefers to provide the tools. Your team can figure out how best to use those tools.
Publishing workflows and strategies are complex subjects, but we'll go over the fundamental concepts of how Drupal handles these concepts.
In this episode Matthew Tift talks with Angie Byron, the Principal Community Manager at MongoDB and a Drupal Core Committer. They discuss a wide range of issues related to cultivating well-being in open-source communities, such as:
One of Drupal's biggest strengths is the ability to define structured content, then display and edit it in a variety of ways without duplicating development or design work. "Display Modes" have always been a big part of that power. One piece of content can be displayed as a Teaser, as a Full Page, as a Search Result, and so on — each with its own markup and field presentation.