OISTチームは、クラウドネイティブのWepOpsプラットフォームを探していました。これにより、チームの限られたリソースで、増え続けるサイトのコレクションと拡張された権限を管理できるようになります。 DCBDチームは、パンテオンの採用を選択するにあたり、ユーザーエクスペリエンスに重点を置くために、コラボレーションの改善、定期的なサポートとメンテナンスのオフロードを目指しました。
まず、Drupalのコアとモジュールのアップデート管理の負担を減らすために、CMSのアップデートの検出、テスト、および デプロイが全て制御できるPantheonのマネージドアップデートの導入を決めました。
Like many universities, Princeton used to run their sites on premises with their internal IT team focused on server maintenance and performance issues. Some things were easy to track and fine-tune and others not so much.
Read one developer’s story about navigating the stormy waters of developing websites for colleges and universities for more than a decade.
The web was born in the world of higher education and research institutions. Starting first as a tool for sharing information among researchers and educators, it has expanded in the three decades to connect to practically every portion of our lives.
In a recent webinar Aaron Baker, Associate Director of Content Strategy for Harvard University Public Affairs and Communications, and Kyle Unzicker, Creative Director at Modern Tribe, walked through how they collaboratively transformed Harvard University's homepage.
Before diving into specifics on the RainU story itself, we’d first like to introduce Pantheon partner agency Mediacurrent and the best-in-class Drupal solutions it offers to its clients.
If content management systems were toys, Drupal would be Lego. It’s infinitely customizable. If you can dream it, you can build it. The one downside? You have to put it together brick by brick.
Drupal can be an ideal CMS for university websites. In addition to the customizability, it excels at managing complex content ecosystems. Content like, say, a main university page with dozens of department pages, student life pages, all with multiple content types interacting in multiple ways.
2020 permanently changed the way students, prospective students, parents, donors, and educators use university websites. Some would argue that the pandemic gave higher education the push it needed to make a serious investment in digital transformation (DX) as the future of learning. Still, there is a long way to go.
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is the largest school system in Virginia and the 10th largest in the United States, with more than 200 schools and centers serving 186,000 students. To keep this large community of students, parents, teachers, employees, and the general public informed, FCPS is building out a network of 195 school websites.
Two weeks ago at WPCampus Online I presented Automated Testing for EDU. This session was a high level overview of different types of automated testing and when to use them. I structured the presentation to show how automated testing can be added at different phases of a project’s life cycle, starting with old sites where motivation to add new processes may be low. I ended with the planning stage when tests can help define the project scope and goals. Along the way, I tried to dispel myths and excuses that can stop a team from using automated tests.