The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
The first feature release of Drupal 9 includes the new experimental Olivero frontend theme and various additions to the Claro administration theme. Installer performance is improved 20% and full Composer 2 and PHP 8 support is available. Images with known dimensions are set to lazy-load by default to improve frontend performance.
Source: Drupal 9.1.0 is available
Looks like PHP 8, Composer 2, Symphony 4,5,6 will get us to Drupal 9. Upgrades paths from Drupal 7 are stable.
What a Drupal website for distance learning should be like? We will talk about technologies for students’ assignments, collecting statistics on the work done, functionality, Drupal modules, and distributions for its work.
Source: Drupal for e-Learning websites
Here’s a list of JS tour libraries that are open source and currently maintained. Tour libraries provide a way for site designers to create guides that will show the features of a website via a walk through of pop-up dialog boxes. They’re really handy for complex sites.
In a fast moving industry like ours, it is imperative that we have tools that allow us to build environments (front and back-end), quickly, while providing consistency all across. The same way we have DevOps processes for quickly spinning off a complete Drupal built with composer, drush, Drupal console and more, we need a system that automates the process of creating Drupal themes which include all the essential tools needed for a modern, best practices and standards compliant environment.
Source: Mediacurrent’s Drupal Theme Generator | Mediacurrent
This looks intriguing. While the demo highlights generating a Drupal 8 theme the underlying tool chain is general enough that it should adaptable for other platforms or straight web theming. Best of all, no Ruby required, making it a bit easier to run on Windows and elsewhere.
H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content – all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.
Source: Set up H5P for Drupal
We are happy to announce the release of DLAW 5.0, an open source website management solution for building effective and beautiful public information websites.
Source: DLAW 5.0 Released: Open source platform for public information websites | Urban Insight
Drupal 7.50, the next release in the Drupal 7 series, is now available for download. It contains a variety of new features, improvements, and bug fixes (no security fixes).
Drupal and Alexa: The Next Big Thing? | Linux Journal http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/drupal-and-alexa-next-big-thing
Drupal 8.1.0 is now available | Drupal.org https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-8-1-0
Firm up that Backend: Easy Exercises for a Usable Admin Interface | Palantir.net https://www.palantir.net/blog/firm-backend-easy-exercises-usable-admin-interface
