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Nonprofit Website Redesign: Bringing It All Together

April 29, 2019 by Brad DeForest Thinking in: CMS/Websites, Design

Nonprofit Website Redesign Elements

In previous blog posts, we’ve talked about Breaking the “Brochureware” Mindset and the Identity+Brain connection. Bringing all of it together will get us to a successful website design. Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it looks like & feels like. Design is how it works.” When talking about websites, my version sounds… Read More

Nonprofit Website Redesign: Identity + Brain

April 29, 2019 by Brad DeForest Thinking in: CMS/Websites, Design

Nonprofit Website Redesign: Identity

Developing Your Interface In a previous blog post, we talked about Breaking the “Brochureware” Mindset and thinking about your organization’s Constituent User Interface (CUI) as an interactive hub. Now, we are going to focus on two primary concepts that can help you develop your CUI: Your Organization’s Identity: Your public “persona,” the face you’re presenting… Read More

Nonprofit Website Redesign: Breaking the Brochureware Mindset

April 29, 2019 by Brad DeForest Thinking in: CMS/Websites, Design

Website Redesign - All Trails Integration

When you think about redesigning your nonprofit’s website, what comes to mind? Often, organizations start with a list of information they need to share — facts, figures, operating hours, maybe a donate button. It’s time to move on from this “brochureware” approach. We’re here to suggest a totally new mindset that will help you establish… Read More

Using Cross Filters on Reports

April 25, 2019 by Paul Keogan Thinking in: CRM/AMS, Salesforce

Have you ever had a need to search for something that hasn’t happened or doesn’t exist in Salesforce? Try cross filters. Here’s how.

A Better Way for Managing Drupal Content Pages

April 22, 2019 by Brent Delperdang Thinking in: CMS/Websites, Design

Drupal Content Management Page

You’ve built a lot of content pages into your nonprofit Drupal site and have started to notice that finding pages through the admin interface can be a challenge. By utilizing the power of Drupal views, managing your content can be a much easier and pleasant task. Let’s look at a before and after. Before: The… Read More

How to Setup SEO Metadata in Drupal 7 & 8

February 26, 2019 by Brent Delperdang Thinking in: CMS/Websites

Google Search Results BackOffice Thinking

Requirements. First you need to have these installed: Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 Metatag module The Metatag module supports tags for common items such as your meta title, meta description, Facebook’s Open Graph, and Twitter cards. Why does your website need metadata? Website metadata bridges the gap between human and machine. Machines need the data… Read More

Big Increase in Salesforce Data Storage Limits

February 14, 2019 by Paul Keogan Thinking in: CRM/AMS, Salesforce

salesforce data storage

With Salesforce’s Spring 2019 release, the base data storage limit is increasing from 1 GB to 10 GB. Up until now, many nonprofits needed to be careful about their data storage limits and several of our clients needed to purchase additional data storage, so if you have purchased additional data storage, please check with your… Read More

Nonprofit Website Redesign: Backpacking Through a Website

November 9, 2018 by admin Thinking in: CMS/Websites, Design, Strategy

Backpacker

How to Lose and Confuse Your Visitors. What does backpacking have to do with a website? It practically has nothing to do with it, except, sometimes that is what your users are doing when they visit it. Some synonyms for backpacking according to thesaurus.com is wandering, rambling and hitchhiking. Yikes. Is this potentially how a visitor feels… Read More

How to Prevent Broken Links in Drupal

March 18, 2018 by Brent Delperdang Thinking in: CMS/Websites

Have you ever experienced a broken page link or broken image display on your Drupal website? Reduce the number of broken urls and image references by following this Drupal tip. You’ll experience fewer broken links and prevent these issues from happening in the future. What is a broken link? A broken link is among the… Read More

Salesforce Tip: Switch Your Lightning Page to a Different Template

March 18, 2018 by Linda Wu Pagano Thinking in: CRM/AMS, Salesforce

Salesforce Lightning Page Template Change

To some, this might be a small change.  However, it’s a small change that can save you lots of time! Have your business needs changed?  Have you decided that you need more page “real estate” for some of your sections than originally planned?  Do you want to change the layout of a Lightning page because… Read More

Is your Nonprofit Organization considering a Mobile App?

February 13, 2018 by Brad DeForest Thinking in: CMS/Websites, CRM/AMS, Design, Strategy

Construction Employees Association App

Perhaps your nonprofit wants to keep your constituents “in the loop” and updated on your organization’s latest efforts, impact stories, and events. Maybe you are doing that now using letters and newsletters through postal mail and emails. Perhaps you publish an annual report in PDF format or on your website. Maybe you even write regular… Read More

Integrations and Salesforce duplicate rules can cause data loss

December 17, 2016 by admin Thinking in: CRM/AMS, Salesforce

Active Salesforce duplicate rules can conflict with third party integrations that insert records into your Salesforce organization.  When the third party product inserts a new record into Salesforce, the Salesforce duplicate rules are run.  If a duplicate is found, the record is not inserted into Salesforce and you may not know.  Most of the third… Read More

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