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RSS on TLC Website

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Since we switched to Drupal to power the department website recently, we're able to have RSS feeds to keep up to date on stuff as it gets added to the site. It hadn't been exposed previously, but I just took a few minutes to expose 3 of the "main" feeds for the site.

I also used my blog within the site to describe what I'd done. My first non-hello-world blog post on our site (although only marginally non-hello-world, but still, it counts).

Here's the goods on our main feeds:

It's the first time I've had RSS available from my employer's website. It's a small thing, but a huge shift.

TLC Website “fixed”

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I just finished the first pass at "fixing" the TLC website. Now, it's not nearly as slick or effective, but is chock full of compliance. mmmm…. compliance… please, sir? may I have another?

TLC Website – with UCalgary "B" template

University of Calgary’s Website Now Powered by Drupal

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

The U of C threw the switch over the weekend, and the new Drupal -powered website is now live. It's got some (temporary) gaps, as content is migrated over from the old site, but it's much nicer than the previous whack-a-mole navigation we had previously. And, since it's managed by Drupal, content updates are likely to happen more often.

IT is testing the waters with the homepage migration – the site is authored/published by Drupal, but is exported as static HTML and that's what is living on our main webserver. As they get more comfortable with hosting Drupal and with performance/scalability, they'll start rolling out dynamically-driven sites rather than HTML snapshots.

Here's what the site used to look like. The arrows lined up near the bottom are the whack-a-mole faculty navigation links.