A content audit is the basis for ensuring great user experience. It helps align your organization’s brand, message, and objectives with the needs and expectations of your site visitor.
Session Archive
The Collaborative Content Audit
The D8 Group module
We will explore the Group module in D8; how to set it up and configure your groups. Discover the power of a module properly using the D8 Entity API and the flexibility and usability that comes with it!
The Ethics of Privacy and Technology
As developers, we are capable of many amazing feats. We can create experiences that touch the lives of millions, brings aid to the corners of the world, empowers new businesses and bring a voice to the voiceless.
The Evolving User Experience (UX)—Using Digital Analytics and User Feedback to Drive Continuous Improvement
Improving the user experience is more than making one update after another - it’s an ongoing, data-driven process. One where everything is considered an interconnected part that ultimately helps us better achieve our website goals.
The Fast and The Repeatable: The Site Audit Reports Edition
How do we make site results more transparent, easy to understand, and repeatable?
How do we provide a solution to alleviate the stress of making sure customers have all their site information at their fingertips?
The Forgotten Task of the Product Owner: Feature Value Monitoring (or, The suprising way in which one Product Owner faced site bloat and won!)
Session Recording: https://youtu.be/WwuccGKnQHI
The Future of Content
Content! It’s everywhere! It’s displayed on websites and in apps. It’s streamed to smartphones, televisions, and watches. It’s heard on podcasts, read aloud by voice assistants, and explored in immersive, three-dimensional virtual realities.
The future of content management: how Drupal fits into the landscape of digital experience platforms
Drupal has long been known as a top-notch content management system. It’s well-know for its flexibility, meaning that you can customize it to fit your content model, and also build custom features around that content.
The future of Drupal MultiSites
Drupal MultiSites are great, at least they initially sound great:
The Human Side of DevOps: How to Enable More People to Break More Things
We all know DevOps is about tools, right? Download a few open-source packages, rev up your CI/CD engine and you're off to the races! FINALLY, we can have 100% error-free software deployments every 11 seconds with nary a human being involved!
The journey of a module from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
Session Recording: https://youtu.be/cMA-QXq7JHE
The Joy of Open, Agile Government Security Compliance
Learn how you can turn a cumbersome, soul-sucking security process into one filled with joy!
The Missing Link: Designing and Building a Website Without a Back-End Developer
Is good collaboration possible without a full internal team? This session will present a unique perspective on an agency team’s collaboration methods throughout Drupal web build completed without an internal backend developer.
The MOST Important Agile Role NO ONE is Talking About
This might not be a popular opinion, but the Scrum Master is NOT the most important role on an Agile team - GASP!. If not the Scrum Master, then who?
The Principled Developer: Walk the Talk
Object Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms are not enough to guide us in developing maintainable software systems.
The Question Is Moot! Accessibility and Dataviz Is NOT an Either/Or: How to Design Accessible, Usable Data Visualizations
“Regarding accessibility, how do you determine situations in which a data visualization is not feasible?” This question came to us from a client.
The Single Node Website: Rapidly Producing Microsites
Have you ever wanted to create a single Drupal instance that hosts multiple Microsites—without using the “Drupal multisite” paradigm? We wanted to allow content managers to create basic websites for Conferences, so we did exactly that.
The State of Drupal 9
What is the state of Drupal 9? What can I do now to prepare for the upcoming release?
The State of the Union('s Data)
Open Data drives evidence based policy and decisionmaking, supports transparency and accountability, and is the language through which our institutions speak to each other and to the public.
The Useful Backlog and Other Mythical Creatures
For most teams working in an Agile environment, the backlog is the central artifact for planning, measuring, and tracking our work.
Thoughtfulness in the Drupal Community
How does thoughtfulness guide decisions in the Drupal community? See how it is applied to: Drupal Core, governance, camp organization, project management, marketing, and recruiting.
Transitioning your Drupal 8 Site to ES6
JavaScript had it’s biggest release since 1996 with ES6 (ECMA2015), and new features are being added with regular releases. Have you begun the process of transitioning your coding style on your Drupal sites?
Twelve Steps for a Successful Conversion
Based on knowledge gained from working with teams who are moving or upgrading, we'll review the right people to bring onto the redesign committee, guidelines and goal-setting, the minimum viable product, an approach to structuring content,…
Twig in the Wild: Customizing Markup with Minimal PHP Knowledge
UPDATE: Demo site with presentation and examples: http://jpresentation.dev.bixal.net/
Two Perspectives on Audio Description
Larry Gillick (DOI.gov), Scott Horvath (USGS.gov) & Paul Tsao (Fig Leaf)