WebTech Work 2010-2015

WebTech History

• Historically part of central IT under ATUS

• Homepage design of 2010-2011 merged marketing, design, and technology groups in cross-campus design team

• After homepage launched the web services group became an independent department, Web Communication Technologies, bridging technology and marketing, but reporting to marketing (Steve Swan).

• We still serve the central campus and produce tools for everyone to use.

New Designs for Western

• Homepage 2011

• Six Colleges 2012 to now (mobile-friendly)

• Western Template 2012

• Western Responsive Template 2013 (mobile-friendly)

• Library launch 2014 (mobile-friendly)

• Admissions 2014 (mobile-friendly)

• WordPress 2015 (mobile-friendly)

Clean modern design that represents Western

Processes & Tools for Western

• Jenkins testing server

• Build automation for our Drupal clients

• JIRA ticketing service: tickets, agile boards, and year-end metrics

• Forms project for surveys and contact forms for static websites

Residences, Admissions, AS, the Library, and other units on campus are starting to use these tools

Frontend Design for Others

• CAS and Password Change (2011)

• myWestern (2012)

• Mobile App (2014)

Front-end Projects we’d like to do

with ADMCS

• Admissions Visit

Registration (front-

end)

• Transfer Equivalency

(front-end)

• Registrar’s Calendar

(integration to their

website)

Upcoming New Work

• Majors Pages

• Final two Colleges

• WesternToday and NewsCenter site

• Drupal for Offices (Registrar, HR, etc)

Clean modern design that represents Western