Blogs tagged with: 'drupal'

Chapter Three will be heading down south for some warmer weather (we hope) and a little Texas charm. We'll be attending DrupalCamp Austin, November 19th and 20th, 2011.

You’re a developer who has to write a user migration tool for a client. The right answer is to the use the surprisingly simple Batch API. Everything is going great. Except that for every migration, there are seven (seemingly random) users that aren’t migrated. Hmmm.... What is going on and how do you find out?

There are a lot of great things about being a Drupal Trainer. My favorite is getting to see -- first hand -- how the code we write affects the community.

I noticed that with the release of Drupal 7 - the demand for training on theme development increased dramatically. It took me a while to figure out why - exactly - but after a night of heated Debate in IRC with chx, mikey_p, HedgeMage, heyrocker, and yoroy (among others) we may have arrived at a conclusion.

Open Academy is an easy to use Drupal product from Chapter Three specifically designed to create university department websites. Over the past few years, we have worked closely with the nation's leading universities - including Stanford, UC Berkeley, NYU, USC, and UCSF - to help them build great Drupal websites.  We now distilling down that knowledge down and offering it as a fully functional Drupal 7 powered "Departmental Website in a Box" package. Open Academy is currently being refined in a closed alpha/beta with an initial group of users, but will be rolling out more widely this summer. If you are interested in participating in our beta process, sign-up for our beta-list and follow @chapter_three for more updates. 

As a best practice departmental website, Open Academy lets you quickly and simply create a new departmental website by entering some basic information about your site in our installation wizard which sets everything up for you. For starters, we baked in critical functionality around departmental news, faculty profiles, publications and presentations, events and calendaring, courses, resources and links, video, social media, and degrees and programs.

In addition, we have built in a state of the art administration dashboard, basic SEO rules, WYSIWYG editing functionality, 508 Accessibility Compliance, and drag-and-drop page layout from the always amazing Panels module. All of this has been developed on a cleanly extendible Drupal 7 install profile with Features-based, Kit Compliant functionality and a well documented starter theme you can modify and extend to meet your particular needs.