[Webinar] Penn State News: Pivoting to Decoupled Drupal with Gatsby

Penn State is a top-ranked research university in the United States with an enrollment of over 80,000 students. When Penn State News, the marketing and communications division of Penn State, needed to modernize their legacy site, they turned to the combination of Drupal, Gatsby, and a best-in-class project team for groundbreaking open source based solutions.

In this webinar, we partner with Penn State and the Drupal Association to give an inside look at how Drupal and Gatsby were leveraged to create a digital storytelling platform with the ability to scale throughout Penn State.

[Webinar] Penn State Scales Static Drupal to New Heights

Penn State News, Penn State University’s most prominent communication platform, gets millions of annual page views, has over 250 content editors, and 66k articles. It’s a big project.

The Penn State News team had an ambitious goal to build a faster and more dynamic site by adopting a decoupled Drupal architecture. Not an easy task. In this webinar, learn how Gatsby and Mediacurrent partnered with Penn State to deliver on the challenge and successfully scale Penn State News.

[Webinar] Decoupled Drupal and Gatsby in the Real World

Drupal and Gatsby are a proven power couple for decoupled websites, offering incredible flexibility, security, and performance. At Mediacurrent, we’ve refined our decoupled approach through real-world experience, starting as early adopters on our own site.

In this webinar, we'll explore tips, pros and cons, and our lessons learned from a first-hand Drupal/Gatsby case study.

[Webinar] A Better Way to Build and Manage Sites with "Rain" for Drupal 9

Good news: if you’re setting the groundwork for a Drupal project, you don’t have to start with a blank slate. Rain CMS, an open source distribution for Drupal, can be used as a “starter” for your next Drupal project.

In this webinar learn how Rain CMS, now shipped with Layout Builder, puts power and control into the hands of marketers and editors while saving time and simplifying processes for IT and web teams.

[Webinar] Best Practices for Moving to Drupal 9

Upgrading to the next major Drupal release can be complex—even stressful. In this webinar, we’ll show you how to take the pain out of the process and get your Drupal 6, 7, or 8 site up and running on D9—the latest and greatest Drupal release.

Joining Damien McKenna, Community Lead at Mediacurrent, is Acquia’s Ryan Picchini, Director of Product Marketing, and Matt Wetmore, Director of Web Operations.

[Webinar] Guide to Component-Based Theming for Drupal 8 & 9

Contrary to the top-to-bottom theming we have been doing for years, the component-based approach enables us to theme Drupal websites by breaking down the UI into self-contained, reusable parts. This presents many advantages over traditional theming: less code repetition, easier to maintain CSS, less risk of regressions, and reusable code.

This webinar is an introduction to the concept of Component-Based Theming. Explore the different phases for building successful component-based websites. 

You'll learn how to: