We just launched the new website for the Teaching & Learning Centre at The University of Calgary. It’s been a long time in the making, with heavy use of themes, custom CCK content types, events, signups, views, and a bunch of other Drupal modules and tricks. King worked his usual magic in putting together the CSS for our theme, which uses the same HTML templates as the official www.ucalgary.ca site.
The new site should make it much easier for us to keep content up to date. We’re also planning some potentially cool community features for down the road a bit, once the dust starts to settle after The Big Website Launch.
Also, it’s currently running on our aging PowerMac Quicksilver dual 1GHz G4 server, so is a bit slower than it should be. We’ll be moving it to a shiny new-ish XServe ASAP.
TLC Website in Drupal
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Awesome read. Really handy info.
That looks great. I’m setting up a Drupal site for a school of Education at the University of East Anglia. I talked about it at Drupalcon06 in Brussels. See http://www.dominiklukes.net/drupalcon06 for audio and PDF of PowerPoint. I would like to know about some of the modules you used, if possible. I’m think maybe a continued discussion on the http://groups.drupal.org/drupaled-distro would be a good idea.
Hey D’Arcy, who is this King fellow, you should introduce me, his work speaks well of him!
Looks really slick D’Arcy, nice work! Who do I talk to about the content in the Resource Library section? – TLC’s not working with the biggest resource library on campus with that list. You’ve got at least one title that our catalogue doesn’t know about, and a couple of titles to which we have purchased subscriptions…
Hi D’arcy:
Here at UBC we use plone for the library staff website. What would be the advantages of using Drupal over Plone? Or more specifically why was Drupal chosen?
Cheers,
Patricia
Patricia, we’re using Drupal for a few reasons. For one, it was chosen as the official web content management system at the U of C, so all faculties and departments have IT support to use it. It’s amazingly flexible – which is both a blessing and a curse. It’s lightweight (no heavyweight install, just copy some .php files to a server). It’s got great theme/template support. There are modules to do just about anything you can imagine. It’s got an awesome and mature open source community. etc…
I guess I’ve inherited that list. I’ll drop you a line. Thanks!
Wonderful stuff! Best EDU site I have ever seen … we WILL be copying you as we roll out our new site in the coming months.
Drupal is an excellent choice, I use it on several websites too.