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Overcoming the Departmental Site Challenge:
How to Unify a University’s Web Platform With Drupal 7
Jennifer Hols, Director of Sales & Marketingimagexmedia.com/jennifer
@jhorocks
Toronto Drupal Summit: December, 2 2011
@jhorocks
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ü Started in 2001 in Vancouver, BC. Exclusively Drupal since 2006. Presently specializing in Education, Non-Profit & Media Publishing.
Who Is IXM?
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Locally in 2007 - Delta School District
o Wanted an effective online community tool.o Faced funding challenges and declining enrollment.o Wanted multi-language support.o Needed an easy to use CMS suited for future growth
How We Got Involved in EDU
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ü Since then we’ve had further opportunities: ASU, UCSF, UC Berkeley, NPC, VSB, BCIT, UBC & Others
ü Sites that are easy to manage, scalable, customizable BUT don't cost a fortune to maintain!
ü Discovered a BIG need within EDU for better looking and better working websites.
The Realization
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The Facts
SOURCE: Noel Levitz 2011 E-Expectations Report
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ü Your 2011 Student Enrollment x 17% = # of students that discounted your school just because of your website.
ü 57% of parents may chose another school over yours because of your website.
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Majority of Higher Eds Run
ü Duplicated effort to manually update content on platforms that don’t interact.
ü Wasted costs in technical staff maintaining content that non-technical people could easily do with the right tools.
ü Spending more than necessary to train & support the specialists required to manage all the different platforms.
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ü System can power 1 to an infinite number of
websites, unifying multiple websites on one single platform.
ü Site admins can create new sites with a few clicks of a button
ü Powerful theming & branding capabilitiesü Syndicated news server to push content across some
or all sites.
What We Built for PSU
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Problem: "How can we minimize the time required to implement and configure new sites and integrate them with the existing platform?" Challenge: Need to add new fully-functional sites quickly and easily.
Solution: Create install profiles, layout and configuration options.
Install Profiles / Deploying New Sites
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Branding DashboardProblem: "Departments are going in all sorts of directions in terms of design and it’s difficult to maintain a unified brand.”
Challenge: Need for consistent branding university wide.
Solution: Create a flexible theme platform wide
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Style Guide / Templating System
@glennhilton
Problem: "Template layouts are boring and don't allow for uniqueness or for departments to properly highlight and showcase what they do.”
Challenge: As a department, need for unique identity.
Solution: Create a number of customizable layouts
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Problem: "How can we disseminate content across the university, or across certain sites, from one location and easy to use system.”
Challenge: Need easy, flexible way to update content across some or all sites. Solution: Phase I - Rebuild of the syndication server.Phase II - Content from sites to server.
Syndication Server
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ü Updating or unifying their current web infrastructure.
ü Taking a survey to provide insight on your present needs.
IXM is currently seeking EDUs interested in…
www.imagexmedia.com/drupal-education
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www.imagexmedia.com/drupal-education
@glennhilton
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Overcoming the Departmental Site Challenge:
How to Unify a University’s Web Platform With Drupal 7
Jennifer Hols, Director of Sales & Marketingimagexmedia.com/jennifer
@jhorocks
Toronto Drupal Summit: December, 2 2011
@jhorocks
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