Yesterday, I spoke in a webinar on how colleges can retool their websites to reach more students, encourage admitted students to enroll, and attract graduate students who have more options than ever. If you'd like to see the recorded version of this webinar, we've just posted the video.
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Jason Smith
Sep 28, 2011
Brandeis University partnered with OHO Interactive to launch two new websites: BrandeisNow and the Brandeis Magazine site. The sites mark a shift to publishing and archiving more content online to reach a wider audience.
The Brandeis Magazine website is the merger of two print magazines and accompanies the redesign print magazine. In addition to feature articles and department columns, the Magazine contains an extensive online class notes section. The Magazine will be published quarterly in print and online.
BrandeisNOW is the centralized hub for all of the news content for the university. It is targeted at the Brandeis community, student, parents, alumni, and the broader national audience. The site contains:
- Feature articles
- Extensive video content
- Slideshows
- News releases
- Upcoming events
Both sites were built on Hannon Hill Cascade CMS solution and on extremely aggressive timelines. OHO Interactive worked as the project lead with a team at the Office of Communications, and provided the following services:
- Information Architecture
- Visual Design
- HTML/CSS Javascript
- Cascade CMS Build
- Traning and Launch
A third web project is underway and due to launch later this fall – stay tuned.
Jason Smith
Nov 04, 2010
Update! Meet up with OHO at DrupalCon 2010 this week!
Many enterprise IT organizations are looking to manage a wide range of web properties with a single content management instance. Drupal provides three options for multi-site management. One of the better options is the Domain Access Module.
Benefits of the Drupal Domain Access Module
- Maintain multiple Drupal sites with one install of Drupal on one server
- Using Domain Access, there is one master web site and any number of sub-site domains.
- Each sub-site domain can have its own navigation structure and visual design or it can inherit the navigation structure and the visual design from the master.
- Content can be shared (or affiliated) from the master with all or some of the subdomains. This allows content editors to edit content on the master and automatically push it out to the sub-sites.
- Not all of the sub-sites need to share the content. Each sub-site can be customized to use (or not) content from the master.
- Content management permissions to edit or to publish content can be restricted so that users are allowed to edit content on just a sub-site.
Examples of the Drupal Domain Access Module
- Content editors and writers can edit master content in one centralized location and have this populate across some or all of the sub-sites
- Allows for easy updating of contact information or footer navigation
- Financial services and banking organizations can update disclaimer information easily
- Allows a brand to maintain a presence in its sub-brands through the use of persistent top header or other design element.
- Organizations can maintain one calendar of events and push these events to sub-site domains. On the sub-site domain, the calendar could either show all events or just events related to this sub-site domain.
Practical Applications of the Drupal Domain Access Module
Colleges and universities can deploy a master Drupal instance and then use the Domain Access module to create sub-site domains for departments or programs allowing all sites to have integrated brand and marketing messages. With the distributed permissions, each department has access to editing and maintaining its departmental content.
Jason Smith
Mar 12, 2010
