Every Yes Was Reasonable. The Site Is Still a Mess.
Somebody asked for an orange button on one page. Three years later there are nineteen button styles and a redesign quote nobody expected. How drift happens, what it costs, and...
Read Article →Drupal Published a Day of Advisories. Most of Them Were for One Module.
Membership applications, event registration, abstract submissions, the ethics form. On most association Drupal sites that is all one module, and on September 23 it had a bad day.
Read Article →Google Is Offering Your Marketing Team the Keys to Your Donation Page
A banner in the Google account offers to upgrade something involving Tag Manager, and your marketing coordinator wants to know whether to click it. On any page that takes a...
Read Article →The Nonprofit Privacy Exemption That Does Not Exist
The belief that nonprofits are exempt from state privacy laws is the most common misreading we encounter. Most trade associations sit in 501(c)(6), and a statute exempting (c)(3) organizations does...
Read Article →The Exploit Needs an Administrator. You Have More Than You Think.
The flaw cannot be triggered by a visitor, a member, or an Editor. It needs an administrator, signed in, to open a link. So the length of your administrator list...
Read Article →Most Association Digital Strategy Is a Website Redesign With a Better Name.
The board asks for a digital strategy and gets back a sitemap and a launch date. Here is the definition we work from, the six areas it covers, and five...
Read Article →The Modules You Installed to Restrict Access Were the Way Around It.
Ten Drupal contrib advisories landed in a single day. Eight are access bypass, and the critical ones sit in the modules you installed to gate member-only content. What to check...
Read Article →Website Governance for Associations: Who Owns What After Launch
Your website launched six months ago and it already shows signs of neglect. The homepage features a past event, two departments uploaded competing pages, and nobody knows who owns what....
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