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March CIDUG Meeting 03-09-2017 - Drupal 7 and Web Components
Feature Presentation: Drupal 7 and Web Components: Taking advantage of emerging web standards to simplify our Drupal-lives.
Web components is an emerging standard to create reusable components made up of HTML, CSS and JavaScript for quicker and easier front-end development.
Learn how web components in Drupal can be be used to help simplify our lives.
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February CIDUG Meeting 02-09-2017 (TONIGHT!) - PLAY DATE with DRUPAL 8!
February CIDUG Meeting 02-09-2017 (TONIGHT!) - PLAY DATE with DRUPAL 8!
Agenda
7-8 pm: Open discussion - bring your Drupal problems, frustrations and head-scratchers
8-9 pm: Feature Presentation: PLAY DATE with DRUPAL 8!
We will spin up at Drupal 8 sandbox using one of several free hosting platforms and play around with Drupal 8.
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Help with Rules (Data Selectors) in Drupal 8
Anyone in these forums able to guide me through some issues with Rules, specifically 'data selectors', in Drupal 8?
I'm mid-way through migration of a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8 and would like to replace a big part of my old D6 custom module with Rules. Nothing too fancy, but I'm having no luck defining Rules in D8.
Read moreJanuary CIDUG Meeting 01-12-2017 - Code is Magic
Feature Presentation: Code is magic
Arcane passages of strange symbols seem to create magic when combined in just the right ways. Prestidigitation, transfiguration, divination, healing, creation and destruction are all made possible with secret magical languages: code is magic.
December CIDUG Meeting 12-08-2016 - Social Time
With all the chaos around this time of year, we don't really have a topic for this month. So, instead, we are going to cancel the formal presentation and meet at Brick City Grill starting around 7pm. We can do our normal bring your questions or ideas to share, but instead it will be with beverage and appetizers instead of laptops and projectors.
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Free websites built by University of Michigan grad students
We are seeking clients for a class at the University of Michigan School of Information. Students in this class break into teams to build websites.
We have about 30 students in the class this winter, so we need 10 sites to create.
That’s where you come in.
Do you know anyone that needs a site (re)built that would be a good candidate for our students?
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Drupal Multisite Dev with single site production and git
I support a number of D7 sites. Most of them share a common theme, the modules in use in each site can vary.
To save space and sanity, I set up local multisite on my dev box. In test and production all of the sites are single site installs. I have little or no control over this decision.
Read moreOctober CIDUG Meeting 10-13-2016 - Maps
Feature Presentation: Maps
ISU Extension and Outreach have recently put maps on some web sites. Bonnie Le Page and Kristi Elmore will talk about the two different ways we did this.
On the www.visitiowafarms.org website, we used a Drupal Module called OpenLayers. The other method uses geojson files and GitHub to embed the maps, see http://netctech.org/current-board/
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September CIDUG Meeting 09-08-2016 - Accessibility and Usability Testing
Website accessibility is starting to gain interest among web communities by becoming an important component of website development. Resources and guidelines are becoming more relevant and available than ever before. We will take a walk through the WCAG quick guide and some online tools to assist with testing your site for compliance.
We will cover the following:
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