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While awaiting finalization of the athletics templates, we were able to migrate the following departments:
Additionally, we were able to add the Master of Arts in Relgious Studies program to the site. The MES degree will be migrated later since an area other than my own currently maintains that content.
At this stage we have just over 30% of the site migrated. When we complete Athletics, we believe we will have just over 50% of the site completed and hope to be able to provide an estimated timeframe for completion.
We will start Athletics next week and hope to have it complete by the end of the second week in August. Progress will once again be slowed due to vacations during the first week of August.
This week we successfully migrated the following areas into LCMS v3:
Additionally, the Experience Taylor section is now fully migrated -- with the Fresh Perspectives and Family Forum pages migrated with the assistance of Information Technology. (Those pages are now being dynamically generated -- easing the maintenance efforts required by Online Communications.)
The rendering issues have been resolved. The site should look normal again in Internet Explorer.
After conversations with Ted Bowers, we will be starting the Athletic content migration on July 10.
Next week we will migrate the Registrar's office in preparation for the new catalog and curriculum guides that are being updated this summer. This should set us up to be able to update departmental curriculum while we migrate academic departments. We may also migrate several other miscellaneous departments as well as completing an urgent project related to AQIP.
The week of July 3rd will not see much progress on actual content migration due to vacations. However, work on templates and training will continue.
This week we successfully migrated the following areas into LCMS v3:
- Alumni
- Parents
- Giving
- William Taylor Foundation
- Additional Experience Taylor content
- Search, Directory, Calendars
Everything went well, and I have a better sense of how long it will take to migrate areas of differing sizes.
For the rest of this week, we are working to resolve a few remaining rendering issues -- including a major issue with Internet Explorer indenting content in the main body area -- as well as preparing for the migration of Athletics. I hope that we will be able to start Athletics next week; however, that is yet to be determined.
We are also very close to completing the Experience Taylor section which has taken longer because of its many interactive components. Chris Swiontek (Information Technology) is putting the finishing touches on a script that will make the creation of the Chapel, Fresh Perspectives and Family Forums Web pages much easier.
This week we successfully migrated the following areas into LCMS v3:
- President's Office
- Inauguration
- Provost's Office
- University Relations
- Conference Services
- Most of Experience Taylor
These areas were migrated first since Online Communications is currently responsible for maintaining their content. If we would be asked to update them during the migration, it will now be much easier and quicker for us to do so.
Next week we plan on migrating the Advancement area, including Alumni, Parents, Giving and the William Taylor Foundation.
I apologize for the lack of recent updates. Between the conferences mentioned earlier, end-of-year vacations, the events surrounding the van accident, and a delay in our project (see below), we haven't had many updates to post about.
That ends today. :)
A frustration for many departments over the past two years (since the public site redesign) has been the inability to develop or maintain their own sites.
The reasons for this are many. (If you ever want the full story, please arrange a lunch meeting with me, and I'll be happy to explain.) But the short answer is that because of the state of our current software for managing the Web site and portal -- Luminis Content Management System v2 -- and the need to upgrade that software "soon", I and others involved with online communications felt it best to limit the number of people that could contribute content into LCMS.
After two years, this limitation is nearing the end. I am very happy to announce that Online Communications and Information Technology have started the "LCMS v3 Implementation Initiative." While planning has been happening in earnest since last fall, actual technical implementation of the new system has started with actual migration of content from the old system to the new system set to begin in just a few weeks.
What does this mean to you?
