Sharing Our Thoughts on All Things Digital

A list of essential modules for your Drupal 9 projects.

At Evolving Web, we love getting people excited about using Drupal. If you know someone who’s about to take their first steps with our favourite open-source CMS, we want to help you help them get started!

When someone comes to your website needing specific information, they have two options: they can either use the site’s navigation to get where they need to go, or they can use the search function. We’re going to focus on the latter for this article.

Many of us do dozens or even hundreds of searches per day without even thinking about it: searching for an email, searching for that song on Spotify, figuring out what to make for dinner, looking up a contact on your phone, finding a word on this page. 

We just expect search to work—but that’s easier said than done.

There’s always a desire to start from scratch. Whether it’s the development team saying that the architecture is fundamentally flawed, the design team looking to add a new brand system, or the leadership team looking to make a big impact or justify a budget-spend, starting a digital project from scratch is appealing. 

And sometimes starting over is justified—for example:

When I first meet a new client and start imagining how we can improve their digital strategy, their content, and the user experience of their website, I start by asking about their target audiences. The questions are simple, but they can be hard to answer.

What do you want to accomplish with your website? Who is your website talking to? Who do you want to be talking to?

We look at some real-life examples of health information website UX and define 5 essential design guidelines for getting crucial healthcare content to the right audience.

Find out what the main differences between Drupal and WordPress are in 2021, from the perspective of a content editor.

Looking back at 20 years of open source creation with Drupal—and my hopes for the project's bright future.

Learn how to build and successfully implement a web accessibility governance plan that accounts for your school’s numerous sites and unique content creation challenges.

What’s the best university CMS in 2021? We put together a handy evaluation framework to help you choose and used it to compare 5 top content management systems: WordPress, Drupal, OU Campus, Cascade CMS, and Adobe Experience Manager.

Discover the three most important changes you'll need to adapt to in the newest version of Google Analytics: the evolution of Sessions, improved collection of cross-device data, and new and improved insights and reporting features.

Our developers have written extensively about planning, executing, and optimizing Drupal migration projects over the years, and all that content is more relevant than ever. If you're planning to migrate your site to Drupal 9 in 2021, add this collection of expert guides to your bookmarks.

Learn how to audit your site's Core Web Vitals and find out how to interpret the data in order to make the most impactful changes for your SEO.

Learn the most up-to-date method for migrating content that was previously translated with Entity Translation to Drupal 8 or 9 with this step-by-step tutorial.

Learn how to turn Google Analytics events into goals in order to get a better big-picture understanding of your traffic and content performance.