Version Agnostic

The currently supported releases of PHP are 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2.  8.0 will reach its end of life on November 26, 2023.

Per Georgia Tech's accessibility requirements, certain fields likely need additional explanatory text accompanying them:

Video Fields (e.g. YouTube)

Any publicly available video must be captioned for end-users. MediaSpace and YouTube automatic captions are not enough to meet full guidance: any automatic captions must be manually reviewed and corrected.

While carousels were traditionally seen as a good way to squeeze more content into a limited amount of screen space, research studies (see Should I Use a Carousel?) show that site visitors are most likely to ignore anything beyond the first slide, and a poorly built carousel can irritate users, leaving them with negative feelings towards your site and your organization.

Kevin Pittman has written a blog post called "So, You Blew Up Your Drupal 8 Site - Now What?" that covers multiple methods for recovering a dead Drupal 8 (or later) website (on the assumption you hadn't made a backup right before it died).

Editor's Note: In spite of the title, the blog post applies to all recent versions of Drupal: 8, 9, and 10.

You can find Georgia Tech's license for Font Awesome 5 on Github.

Recommended Usage

We strongly recommend utilizing the SVG icons for usage in your Drupal website, due to accessibility and compatibility concerns.

User Interface (UI) design refers to the forward facing look and feel of a website.

User Experience (UX) design refers to how users will interact with and navigate through a website.

This section provides details about useful tips, tricks, and tools relating to both areas of website design.  Accessibility is related to UI and UX, but is covered in its own section of the handbook.

2017 Meetings

• August 16 2017 - 4 attendees
• September 20 2017 - 1 attendee
• October 18 2017 - 4 attendees

This section contains guides for creating and editing page content using CKEditor, the popular What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) text editor, which on some sites is packaged as the GT Editor.  Additional related guides can be found in the Creating and Managing Pages section, and additional content editing topics can be found in our All About Blocks section and our Photos and Videos section.

This section collects useful tips and tricks for administering a Drupal website.

Guides and Resources

Logging details about your site's usage can be very valuable, but if not configured properly, can also be a huge resource drain.  The following articles provide useful best practices for managing your Drupal site's logging functions.

Logs and Logging Guides and Resources