Webinars

June 16, 2022

Time:  

3:00PM - 4:00PM (EST)

One Bite at a Time: Incrementally Re-Designing the NIA Website Using the USWDS

Presenter:  William Hurley

Redesigning a site is a chance to take the lessons you have learned and applying them to make a better, more intuitive, easier to access site. Doing so now allows us to leverage the work that was done with the US Web Design System, built-in compliance with section 508 as well as the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act. But instead of re-building the site all at once, NIA is moving section-by-section, component-by-component.

In this talk you will learn:

• Advantages of re-designing incrementally
• Lessons learned about adopting the US Web Design System
• Tools and techniques to accelerate the redesign process and ensure consistency

May 25, 2022

Time:  

3:00PM - 4:00PM (EST)

Understanding Caching for Drupal 8 and Beyond.

Presenter:  Ashraf Abed

Drupal utilizes an advanced caching architecture to improve performance. It's actually one of Drupal's biggest strengths!

Join us as we discuss the critical elements of caching a Drupal 8+ website, including:

• Render arrays
• Cache tags
• Contexts
• TTLs
• Varnish
• CDNs
• And more!

March 17, 2022

Time:  

3:00PM - 4:00PM (EST)

Easy Intro to Using Composer with Drupal

Presenter:  Ashraf Abed

Use of Composer is vital to development in Drupal 8+. Simplify upgrades and improve stability & security by managing your site's dependencies using Composer, the package manager for PHP.

Attendees Can Expect to Learn how to use Composer for:

• Strategies to simplifying upgrades.
• Security improvements
• What the php package manager does
• How to manage your sites dependencies
• And how using composer will assist in over all site stability

February 17, 2022

Time:  

3:00PM - 4:00PM (EST)

Deploying an Ecosystem to Serve California's Justice System

Presenters: John Faber & Mike Madison

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. The state's court system is in the middle of a multi-year process of deploying a shared infrastructure and design system that will eventually serve dozens of affiliated court websites. Chapter Three is helping guide the technical and strategic rethink of how to run a modern, multi-tiered court system online.

January 27, 2022

Time:  

3:00PM - 4:00PM (EST)

Content Management: From Docs to Components

Presenter:  Yanko Ivanov & Madison Taylor

Headless Drupal enables content distribution from one central authoring point to many front-end user experiences. To enable full flexibility for tailored user experience, we need to ensure that front-end applications are able to request and consume only relevant components of the content. In this webinar, we will explore the journey from a CMS as a tool delivering complete web pages to a CMS that is built around content components that can be assembled in many different ways to deliver that coveted customized end-user experience.