Talking Drupal #424 - Web Sustainability Guidelines

Today we are talking about the Web Sustainability Guidelines, How
sustainability applies to the web, and how your website can be
more sustainable with guests Mike Gifford and Andy Blum. We’ll
also cover LB Plus as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/424
Topics

What are the Web sustainability guidelines

Do they only apply to environmental impact

When we think about sustainability we think of funding, does
WSG speak to that

Why are the WSG important

What is the best way to implement WSG

How do the WSG’s apply to Drupal

Have the WSG’s been finalized

Are they open source

How can someone get involved

Resources

Web Sustainability Guidelines

Carbon footprint of your website

Eggcorns

Andy’s blog post

w3c/sustyweb

Sustainable web design working group

Green Web Foundation

Guests

Mike Gifford - mgifford.medium.com @mgifford
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Layout Builder Plus


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to make Layout Builder easier and
more intuitive for content creators? There are a few modules
that can help with that, but today we’re going to talk about
one called Layout Builder Plus



Brief history

How old: Originally created in Apr 2022

Versions available: 2.0.1 release, compatible with Drupal
10 and 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained, latest release just a week ago

Number of open issues: 2, both bugs, but both marked as
fixed



Usage stats:

9 sites



Maintainer(s):

Tim Bozeman of Tag1



Module features and usage

Provides an overhaul of the Layout Builder UI, to make it
easier for content creators:

Show a curated list of promoted blocks with icons, with
lesser-used blocks available in a separate tab

Once a block is placed it shows automatically generated
content, instead of asking the user to fill out a form before
they can see what it will look like

Editing the content of a block happens in an overlay
instead of the settings tray, so it can use more of the
screen

Moves the Save Layout and other action buttons to the
bottom of the page

Also adds some nice capabilities to Layout Builder,
including:

Drag and drop entire sections

Change the layout of an existing section, even if it has
blocks in it

Clone and update existing blocks

Finally, it includes a submodule to integrate with the
Section Library module, which allows for a section within a
layout to be saved so it can be reused again and again

I’ll also note that this is a module nominated by one of
our listeners in the #talkingdrupal channel of the Drupal
slack workspace, so if there’s a module you’d like to hear
about in this segment, drop us a note in there