Deploying an Ecosystem to Serve the Public: A Strategy for California’s Trial Courts Overview We’ve been working over the last year to help the Judicial Council of California move the infrastructure and design of various California court sites (as we've said elsewhere, the California Judicial Branch is the largest legal system in the country). This ongoing effort is grounded by several desired outcomes: Mike Madison October 15, 2021 ..read more

Let’s Rethink Multi-site, ok?​ Drupal multisite is the method used to host many sites using one Drupal installation.  This concept and ability have been around since the beginning of Drupal.  It solved lots of problems at the time but created many new ones.   A well-discussed topic within the Drupal community and hosting agencies is: What is the right way to host multiple Drupal sites?  No set answer has emerged; there are lots of ways to do it. Chapter Three has found a better way. John Faber September 14, 2021 ..read more

Google Maps View with Custom Overlays Maps are a common feature many websites want to implement, and depending on requirements, often it is enough to simply embed the map. However, what if you want to create map markers using your own site data or use custom overlays to display additional geographic information? Drupal makes this quite easy with modules like Views and Gmap for Drupal 7. Gabe Guevara September 02, 2021 Drupal 7 ..read more

Next.js and Drupal go together like peanut butter and jelly! Ok, sounds weird, but it’s true. Imagine for a moment using Next.js as the decoupled front-end of your Drupal site. Imagine it worked well and was transparent to your content editors. Use the power of Drupal, with built-in JSON API’s to feed all the content you can think of to the front-end. Use Next.js to build out hyper-performing front-end experiences. This approach opens up new possibilities for your developers and your website to deliver content quickly, securely, and across multiple platforms. John Faber August 26, 2021 Decou ..read more

Drupal & Pretty Paragraphs: Build better content with Layout Paragraphs What are Layout Paragraphs? According to their project page, Layout Paragraphs provides an intuitive drag-and-drop experience for building flexible layouts with paragraphs. Paragraphs are the preferred method of dealing with complex content structures inside of Drupal, and Layout Paragraphs are for dealing with complex layout structures in those paragraphs.  Phil Boden June 14, 2021 User Experience Site Building Drupal 8 Drupal 9 How to ..read more

Site Migration and Refresh: Improving Access to the Research Resources of SIREN at UCSF The Siren Network at UCSF’s mission is to “improve health and health equity by advancing high quality research on health care sector strategies to improve social conditions.” This research initiative, supported by Kaiser Permanente and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a leader in the creation, curation and dissemination of research that explores the intersection between health and social determinants that often play a critical role in the health outcomes of individuals and communities.  Mi ..read more

Creating a New Self-Help Portal for the California Courts California's court system is the largest in the nation and serves a population of more than 39.5 million people — about 12 percent of the total U.S. population.  Mike Madison March 10, 2021 Development Case Study ..read more

The Best Part Is No Part I once sat on a mountain and deeply contemplated the mysteries of Drupal development. Actually, I live on a mountain, so I do this every day, and the title of this post isn't a Zen revelation, I stole that from Elon Musk. I'm not trying to build rockets and send humans to Mars, and I don't want to draw too many parallels between what I do and the complexity of that enterprise, but we do solve some complex problems of critical importance to our clients. Every efficiency we can gain improves outcomes. Calvin Tyndall January 14, 2021 Development ..read more

An Experiment: GraphQL in Twig While experimenting with Gatsby + Drupal and doing research for my previous posts here, I came across the GraphQL Twig module. This module is beta and hasn't had a lot of activity. I'm not sure how it addresses some deep Drupal theme issues, but it presents an interesting idea: Calvin Tyndall December 03, 2020 Drupal Development ..read more

Drupal Backender Learns Gatsby: Core JSON:API vs GraphQL 3 At BADCamp 2019 I attended Michael Schmid’s presentation on decoupled web site building and hosting. There, I learned about the GraphQL module that's been developed to do decoupled Drupal, instead of JSON:API. When I first started experimenting with Gatsby I decided to try it, not really knowing anything about GraphQL at the time. Calvin Tyndall November 18, 2020 ..read more