When Digital Solutions teams said goodbye to 2022, we left behind one of the most productive and successful years in our history.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...oh wait, that opening has been taken. Allow me to start again.
Portal Theme
Themes are the part of Drupal that you, and anyone else visiting your Drupal powered application, see when they view any page in their browser. It’s also the set of files that define the visual look and feel of your site.
This blog was updated in February 2022
An example of how our team utilizes an Agile/Scrum process:
The Problem
A web manager notices that on video cards, it shows a square shape instead of a triangular one. That manager submits a ServiceNow ticket.
We Are Digital Commons is a limited quarterly event where the Digital Solutions team shares with the community updates on the migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9.
What fantastic turnout we had for our first ever 'virtual' Digital Commons 2.0 event! Over 80 of you joined to hear more about our migration to Drupal 8, a demo of the landing page content type, and lots more.
New Digital Solutions Director
Five sites are now on the Drupal 8 Digital Commons platform, and 2 more in progress. We appreciate the willingness of these initial agencies to take this journey with us.
Front-line digital responders - pay attention to detail
Three months into 2020 and we are living in a new reality.
improving, and growing… one website at the time… for very happy customers!
Digital Solutions team is facing a tough task of migrating 60+ websites to a new Drupal platform. Our small but mighty team is well prepared to face many challenges that come with migrations.
The most important person to ensure the success of an agency website may never log into the website. We call that person the Strategic Website Owner, but Website Champion may be a clearer title.
The migration of websites from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 involves moving 60 websites from one platform to another.
The only way we’re all going to stay sane is to find ways to simplify this process!
The Digital Solutions team works in an Agile methodology. For the D8 project, we first developed the features that are needed by all the agencies. Next, we began developing features that are used by many agencies.
North Carolina maintains an archive of government websites and social media pages
This program is run in partnership by the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina.
According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web.
When we hear about accessibility, many of us who work with websites assume that means making content accessible for people who are blind or have other vision impairments. But it’s more than that.