By james, 3 December, 2025
An important aspect of every website project is accessibility, and an important part of that is giving your images meaningful “alt” text to describe their contents. At this year’s European DrupalCon in Vienna, AmyJune Hineline and Chris Vickery discussed aspects of alt text images, with many examples, mostly from their favourite album covers.
By james, 1 December, 2025

So first, an apology. I have failed in my original plan. A nasty cold/flu thing sapped my energy, and I wasn’t organised enough to make it work.

The plan was to have initiative leads nominate people who have made an important contribution to their projects, and to feature those “People of Drupal” behind the doors.

Think you to all the people who made great suggestions, and thank you to the people they suggested who responded positively, but we’ve run out of time to make it work.

By james, 24 November, 2025

For the past three years, the Drupal Advent Calendar has spotlighted shiny new modules, clever projects, and all sorts of open-source goodness.

This year we’re hanging up our “new module smell” stockings and doing something different.

It’s time to celebrate the people, the elves, reindeer, and magical snow-folks who keep the Drupal project running behind the scenes.

By james, 24 December, 2024

Welcome back for the final door of the 2024 Advent Calendar. We’ve already covered all 22 tracks of the Starshot initiative, as well as some non-track aspects. For our final door, we are looking at something that is absent from the initial release of Drupal CMS, but is hoped to come to fruition in 2025 and revolutionise website theming.

By james, 23 December, 2024

Welcome back for the penultimate door of this year’s Drupal Advent Calendar, and today we’ve recruited the legendary Mike Anello to bring us up to speed on a big topic, the AI track of Drupal CMS.

By james, 22 December, 2024

Once more, we welcome you back to the Drupal Advent Calendar, to see what’s behind door number twenty-two. Today we are welcoming back an old friend, the Gin Admin Theme which was covered all the way back in Door 1 of the 2023 Drupal Advent Calendar.

So why feature it again? Well back then, Gin was something of a rebel, for use on cutting edge Drupal sites, but perhaps a bit too “punk” for respectable production sites.