Talking Drupal #525 - Drupal for Designers
Today we are talking about Drupal for Designers, site builder certifications, and getting more designers in Drupal with guests Dave Pickett & Kelly Smith. We'll also cover Sitewide Alert as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/525
Topics
- Designing for Drupal: Challenges and Insights
- Site Builder Certification Journey
- Starting the Journey: Taking the Course and Exams
- Understanding Drupal: Post-Certification Insights
- Challenges and Complexities in Drupal
- Team Collaboration and Training Benefits
- Practical Applications and Personal Projects
- Preparing for the Certification Exam
Resources
Guests
Kelly Smith - kesmith Dave Pickett - civicactions davidmpickett
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross
MOTW Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to post and manage sitewide alerts on your Drupal website? There's a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Oct 2019 by Chris Snyder (chrissnyder) of Phase2
- Versions available: 2.2.1 and 3.0.1 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 25 open issues, 9 of which are bugs against the 3.x branch
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- With the module installed, you can create Sitewide Alerts as a new entity type
- By default, alerts are displayed at the top of the page sitewide regardless of theme, but there is an option to exclude admin pages and an optional submodule will render the alerts in a block that you can place in a specific place that might meet your site's needs better. There is also an option to specify that an alert should only be shown on specific pages, and can be configured to be shown and hidden at specific times
- It's worth mentioning that alerts are dynamically inserted into the pages by front end code that checks a custom endpoint on a configurable schedule, so new alerts can be displayed without waiting for
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