UTA’s Shorthorn gets a CMS
August 26, 2007 in Tech Talk, Websites
This spring, Adam Drew from University of Texas at Arlington was one of the attendees at our workshop in Nashville. We spent a good part of Friday night talking about content management systems and the way the Shorthorn put their content on the web. The Shorthorn has always hosted their own site (since 1997), but was still inputting content manually into static web pages every issue. #
This week, Adam told me (via Facebook wall, believe it or not) that the Shorthorn now has a new content management system – Joomla. Click on the image above to cruise around their new site. If you want a sense of what the old site looks like, you can go to the archives page. One thing you might also note is that the Shorthorn is at a .com domain, while the archives are at uta.edu. Don’t know if that was part of the migration to a new CMS or not. #
For those who don’t know, Joomla is an open-source CMS. Open source means it’s free to download and modify. For those with the technical savvy and the want-to to do so, it’s one of the ways to get online I outlined almost one year ago here: Options for hosting an online news site. #
I didn't explore The Shorthorn's new site beyond the main page, but it looks great! Very slick utilization of Joomla.
I really like this Joomla! template: very clean with navigation pushed to the top and out of the main display area. Today's (Jan. 28) home page is much more attractive than the snapshot posted here on ICM because it leads with a photo slideshow box with teases. Well worth a look. Nice work, Shorthorn!
I really like this Joomla! template: very clean with navigation pushed to the top and out of the main display area. Today's (Jan. 28) home page is much more attractive than the snapshot posted here on ICM because it leads with a photo slideshow box with teases. Well worth a look. Nice work, Shorthorn!
I really like this Joomla! template: very clean with navigation pushed to the top and out of the main display area. Today's (Jan. 28) home page is much more attractive than the snapshot posted here on ICM because it leads with a photo slideshow box with teases. Well worth a look. Nice work, Shorthorn!