Drupal 8 is the best tool out there for creating a multilingual sites. Unlike Drupal 7, Drupal 8 was built with multilingual in mind. But it isn’t a one-stop shop for translation. Drupal 8 allows translated content to be created or displayed on your site, but it doesn’t perform the actual translation of content for you. You’re going to need a Translation Management System (TMS) for that.
European food wholesaler Transgourmet hired 1xINTERNET, one of the biggest Drupal agencies in the EU and a Pantheon partner, to create a consistent, flexible solution that would enable the company to relaunch all of its websites.
That solution — Drupal running on Pantheon, plus a WebOps approach that enabled them to gradually make updates on a site-by-site basis — earned them not just a happy client, but an award.
My journey of discovering the web began in Japan in the late 90s. I was living and working in Takaoka as a high school english teacher and our school was able to participate in an early pilot of internet connectivity that fascinated myself and my students. Suddenly, learning a new language came alive for them as a way to communicate with anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Exciting things are happening in the world of Drupal! But with Drupal 8 reaching end of life, and Drupal 7 support now extended through 2022, it can be a bit confusing. We’ll break this all down in the following post.
Today marks the release of Drupal 9.1, the first new feature release for the web’s favorite enterprise-grade, open-source CMS. It also marks the next step in Pantheon’s evolution for supporting modern PHP development practices, with the availability of Drupal 9.1 with new Integrated Composer workflow.
According to the official statistics, there are nearly a quarter million websites running Drupal 8. With today’s official end-of-life date, a lot of people out there may be feeling a little nervous. We have quite a number of customers who are in this position, so I wanted to take a moment to provide some advice to everyone who is operating a Drupal 8 website today.
Tableau Software is an analytics and business intelligence solution that helps over 32,000 customers see and understand their data in visually compelling ways.
The company had just launched Tableau Public, a free service that enabled anyone to create and share data visualizations online. This was a groundbreaking service, but it required a lot of infrastructure and operational resources.
In the spring of 2020, a COVID-19 research project from one of OIST’s professors was published online; soon after, scientists from around the world were flocking to the OIST website. With Pantheon’s Global CDN, the majority of the massive traffic spike was directed to cached content instead of OIST’s servers. “We didn’t even notice that we had a nearly 650% increase in traffic.
One of L.A. Tourism’s major projects is creating the online guide to L.A.’s bi-annual restaurant week event known as dineL.A. While its primary site at www.discoverlosangeles.com serves as the online portal for Los Angeles Tourism, its sub site at www.dinela.com promotes hundreds of participating local restaurants, and at dineL.A.
Ergodyne’s website serves both B2B and B2C customers. The site is responsible for digital marketing campaigns, branding, and gated content for both customer segments. It is also a direct-to-consumer ecommerce site that supports a considerable number of transactions and revenue dollars each year.