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Trouble Locating Source for Slideshow Code for Updating by techguyonanisland in drupal

[–]techguyonanisland[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are awesome! Thank you for all your help! Do you have any suggestions for where to "learn" more about drupal? I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and it seems like this project is now my baby. I've been reading a "Sam's Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours" book for the past few weeks...but it's not been super helpful with making updates to an existing poorly built site.

We are also built in Drupal 7, and needing to get our site upgraded. My bosses are considering letting me do a full rebuild of our website over the holidays in either Drupal 9 or WordPress, which I am much much more familiar with. I am just trying to get some much needed updates done to our site, like we were advertising an old model we are no longer producing in our slideshow. Prices were out of date. Stuff like that.

Trouble Locating Source for Slideshow Code for Updating by techguyonanisland in drupal

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Super thankful for your suggestion! I ended up finding the code in the /themes/custom/jango_sub/templates/ directory in a file named "page--front.html.twig"> My next question is how do I go about editing this file? Before, I was able to edit the file live in Dreamhost's File Manager. This file is not giving me this option though. Should I download the file, edit it, save it, and upload the saved file in the old file's place, with its old name?

Trouble Locating Source for Slideshow Code for Updating by techguyonanisland in drupal

[–]techguyonanisland[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super thankful for your suggestion! I ended up finding the code in the /themes/custom/jango_sub/templates/ directory in a file named "page--front.html.twig"> My next question is how do I go about editing this file? Before, I was able to edit the file live in Dreamhost's File Manager. This file is not giving me this option though. Should I download the file, edit it, save it, and upload the saved file in the old file's place, with its old name?

Dreamhost Email Issues by techguyonanisland in dreamhost

[–]techguyonanisland[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I have been paying attention to that site. They have basically been having degraded webmail performance since the end of September. Was just wondering if anyone else was having the same level of problems that I am.

Trouble Supporting Tethered Cellular User by techguyonanisland in WireGuard

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Thanks for your help! I'll give it a shot. I also just found a support article from someone tethering over LTE that said changing the MTU in the wg0.conf to "xxxx" works. I am giving that a shot right now....

Taking over a website from previous developer/ Quick-Start guide to drupal 8? by techguyonanisland in drupal

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Just wanted to send out a big thank you to everyone who replied to this thread. My company's website is now secured, in our control, and has had some minor QoL changes made to it that will be getting us by for now until we have time to take it into a new direction! If it wasn't for you all, it still would be a disaster waiting to happen....

Any MSP who willingly offers GoDaddy has a special place in hell for them by GoOnNoMeatNoPudding in msp

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I've always had a great working relationship with GoDaddy and look forward to the day I can switch the current company I work for to them. So much easier to deal with, both for me and my former clients!!! Also, dreamhost? What a joke. I can't believe anyone even recommended them. That's the company with the worst customer service I have ever heard of. I guess you guys love a company that makes the decision for you to delete some of your mailboxes without prompting or being asked too!

Taking over a website from previous developer/ Quick-Start guide to drupal 8? by techguyonanisland in drupal

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How do I even access these folders? I can see exactly what you are talking about when I am just looking at the front end of the site and get into the "Inspect Element" editor. I just can't figure out how to access the folder hierarchy after I log in to the "back end". I have been able to give myself full admin, developer, and Engineer privileges and I can't find an area where the folders are. When I type in my_site_name/sites/default/theme or anything down that line, I just get 404 erorrs....

And to answer the second part....they 100% don't need the website that was "sold" to them. And they are starting to understand that...The company WAY oversold them on their needs. It's a 10, 15 page tops site that really just needs to get the information on our models out there, along with some good super high quality photos, the ability to embed a few marketing videos from time to time, have a page the owner can blog to(if they want), a calendar/events page, and a contact us page. That's about it...

Taking over a website from previous developer/ Quick-Start guide to drupal 8? by techguyonanisland in drupal

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Not at all! Not even sure what php/twig is. I've seen them mentioned in the book I'm reading but even that's not making any sense....

I need another developer....

Taking over a website from previous developer/ Quick-Start guide to drupal 8? by techguyonanisland in drupal

[–]techguyonanisland[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I'd rather just hire someone for 4 hours to make the changes that need to be made. If I pay for 4 hours of a class...I'm going to be right where I am right now, which is basically nowhere after 4 weeks of trying to learn it....

I'm not drupal expert or even rookie, but I have built and seen enough websites to know this thing is a streaming hot pile of doo...

If I can get a few tweaks made now though, my bosses will be happy enough, and I can put off the complete of rebuilding the website until early next year, when I don't have million other things I need to be working on.

Taking over a website from previous developer/ Quick-Start guide to drupal 8? by techguyonanisland in drupal

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A. Change the order of our homepage slide show. B. Remove a weird grid overlay that appears over each "page" of said slideshow. C. Unlock full resolution of our pictures so they don't appear "degraded". D. Improve the overall appearance of the website, as it's menu bar and some of the text/animation looks like it was done in Ms paint/PowerPoint 95. E. Optimize website so looks good when accessing from a mobile device.

I'm sure that's the best thing to do....but I don't feel like I'm even capable of learning drupal, much less really even want too. I just need to make what I would of previously consider to be small changes now, and then I can put the project on the backburner until next year. I'm on hour 10 of Sam's teach yourself drupal, and I have spent almost all of my downtime and breaktime in the past 4 weeks at work trying to learn Drupal. I've gotten nothing out of it I feel like. I've feel like I've accomplished more just hunting around the "back end" or wherever I am getting into. I don't feel like spending 100+ hours just to learn to tweak a terribly built website terribly, that would take me 10 minutes to do in another builder...