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Migrating Types of Pages
- 24 March 2009
Thinking this morning about the different types of pages (Trillium and otherwise) we will be migrating to the new website and our new content management system, LiveWhale, I decided to make a list online here at the redesign blog:
- Page content that can be moved to LiveWhale’s PAGES section on the new server with no problem and no changes necessary
- Page content that can be moved over but obviously in need a bit of updating on your part
- A news item that will be moved into LiveWhale’s NEWS section
- A calendar item that will be moved into LiveWhale’s EVENTS section
- Content from an email-only template that does not really belong in News or Events: Ignore, archive, or delete
- Tilde “~” sites of central importance: Ignore, but we will make a “landing page” in LiveWhale for us to link to first, before users go to the tilde site
- Tilde “~” sites of lesser importance: Ignore for now
- Gallery pages within Trillum: move into LiveWhale IMAGE and GALLERY sections
- Gallery pages on external sites like Smugmug or Picassa: Ignore
- Law and CAS alumni directories: Ignore for now
An interesting subset to all these is the use of forms. For the most part we will migrate the current forms over to the new site as is, though RSVP forms will now be handled directly within the LiveWhale EVENTS section.
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And I suppose I ought to add a number 11 item: Special pages, things that are just weird enough not to fit into any of the above list items!
Good to know that most content will just transfer over - but what about generating whole new pages which we in APP do at the rate of roughly 1/week? When do you envision training staff on how to use/update/create/publish pages in Live whale? Or is it just so easy that training would be silly?
And if alumni directories are being ignored - does that mean they don’t exist all of a sudden or what?
There is a livewhale EVENTS section? Whoa - maybe APP and NM should meet so you can educate us on what this will look like?
Can’t wait for June 8th! Are you sure you didn’t choose the 8th because on that day in 1995 was the first use of PHP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
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Boot,
I answered some of your questions about training, talked about our partnership with IT Client Services and the future for the alumni directory elsewhere. Check those out.
Regarding your questions about the events module in LiveWhale — yes, we can get you hooked up to play. It’s fairly straight-forward, but does have a basic registration feature that will probably be welcome to your and your team in CAS Alumni.
As to the date selection, it didn’t occur to me that this would be the same day as the first use of PHP, but all the better. We actually chose it due to timing in relation to commencements and admission cycles.
Thanks,
David