What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free community supported framework for creating, organizing, presenting and managing a website. It powers millions of websites and applications all over the world. Drupal makes it easy for contributors to publish to websites and easy for developers to deploy new sites as well as add features to existing ones. 

Development

I've been doing this for a while. I've worked on Federal sites, State sites, Publishing sites, Corporate sites, Social sites, and more. Whether you need someone to do it all for you or help you get it done we'll put a plan into action! 
Read more...

Training & Consulting

NASA, The US Federal Court, The Indiana Department of Education, Highlights Magazine for Children, The Ohio State University, Butler U., Temple U., Penn State, and many others have counted on me to deliver Drupal Training & Consulting in a practical and engaging way. Whether onsite or remote, let me help you leverage the power of Drupal to meet your goals.
Read more...

Doug Vann's Blog

Adding regular text into the Drupal Date Format field
Q: "Can you add simple text to a Date Format value in Drupal?" A: YES! [This was news to me]Preamble:I was teaching a Drupal 8 class last week and a student asked if we could enter regular text [like the word "date"] into the Date Formate field. I tried it and, of course, some of the letters were...
Read More...
Easily Install Drupal 8 on Pantheon for FREE
It's been 19 months since my last blog!What better way to break the silence than with a new blog post with a video!?!?! My goal for 2018 is to create a couple Drupal 8 videos a week and announce them with a blog post here at DougVann.com. Module reiews, How-tos, Demos, & MORE. I'm also taking...
Read More...
FYI: Not going to DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
As DrupalCon New Orleans gets closer, I'm getting asked more frequently if I'm going. I'm honored to have so many hit me up and ask me directly via Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Google HangOut, etc.The answer is NO. And here's why...Business is going super-dee-duper well and I can barely breathe....
Read More...
Drupal Promotes An Ownership Society, but does Drupal 8 threaten that?
Those who know me at all likely know that I have a few catch-phrases I use when trying to explain the impact that Drupal has had on the market for organizations and individuals needing quality web sites. DRUPAL PROMOTES AN OWNERSHIP SOCIETY is a phrase that I have used for years and years. When I...
Read More...
Delivering Training On Drupal 8 Site Building And Pantheon Workflow At TexasCamp2016
It's 2016 and pretending like Drupal 8 doesn't exist is not an option. Which is why you will find me in Dallas this weekend spreading the love for Drupal 8! Almost 5 months out from its November 2015 launch it is gaining more traction and visibility at Drupal events. I am still seeing many many...
Read More...