Model Aviation Library | Justin B. Keiser

When I arrived, this site was on Drupal 7 and had not had a security update in five years. The site used an install profile that was no longer supported. After a series of incremental updates I removed the install profile and got the site running current Drupal 7. Phase 2 involved upgrading the site to Backdrop CMS.

The site holds roughly forty years of the Model Aviation magazine. Every page is a scanned image. As a result of this project I ported the S3 File System module from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS. This lowered the storage requirements for hosting the site because the images were in an S3 bucket separate from the site files.

Model Aviation Library

Academy of Model Aeronautics

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Migrating URL Aliases from Drupal 7 to 10: A Journey with a Twist

Developer migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10, with broken and fixed chain links symbolizing the resolution of URL alias issues.

Migrating from Drupal 7 to 10, I faced issues with URL aliases. After troubleshooting with ChatGPT and updating an old module, I successfully imported the aliases and solved the problem efficiently.

Migrating from WordPress to Backdrop CMS

Learn how to migrate from WordPress to Backdrop CMS, leveraging built-in tools for easy content transfer and theme customization, all without needing paid plugins.

Total Solar Eclipse

When I attended the Florida Drupal Camp in February I did a Lightning Talk about my experience during the 2017 eclipse. I lived in Jacksonville, FL and drove...

Creative Comments

A few months back I was working on a Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 migration. I also migrated a WordPress blog into the site. Some of the content dated back close to a decade and was littered with inline styling. Think style tags inside the content setting the font size and font-family. I wanted to...

JPL Intranet

The library has an Intranet site for the library called JPL Neighborhood. I've been working with the site since 2012. Small edits to the site have been made over the years in addition to adding content. The circulation procedure page was formerly an old fashioned HTML Table of Contents. I used JQuery UI to make the page slightly more modern with accordions.