Redesigns for the new year: WKU, Pitt, ACC
August 31, 2009 in Websites
The Pitt News at the University of Pittsburgh didn’t just move off of College Publisher and redesign their site. They built a CMS from the ground up the site using Drupal as a base. (as Daniel Bachhuber noted in the comments, if you view the source code of the front page, the site is actually built on Drupal, not a custom-built CMS – ed.) #
Editor-in-Chief Drew Singer said: #
We have a Web editor (a student) doing all of our coding, and it’s been a true collaberation on how we want the website to feel. #UPDATE: Online editor Victor Powell confirms that Drupal is the CMS behind pittnews.com, and shared the site’s iPhone friendliness in the following screenshot: #As of now, it’s functional and ready for daily publication in the school year, but it’s by no means finished. Our next step is to improve our blogs, build message boards and other networking tools and also improve the general look and feel of pittnews.com. #
Building our own website from scratch has been quite the experience, but its versatility and simple back-end makes the whole process worthwhile. #
The Western Kentucky University College Heights Herald redesigned their web site and also switched to a WordPress CMS. Their design is based on the commercially-available Gazette Edition theme by Woo Themes. #
Austin Community College’s Accent redesigned over the summer with a move to College Publisher 5.0. Adviser Matthew Connolly says: #
We love the flexibility of the new interface, and the new visual options. The College Publisher team was also great to work with, although we are still working through some issues that arose as a result of the data migration from the old CP4 site. #
Reminder: If you’ve redesigned this summer or moved hosting services, drop me an e-mail to be featured in this continuing series: scmurley -at- gmail.com. #
Are you sure the Pitt News is built from the ground up? It looks awfully like Drupal….
That is true, as I noted in the corrected post. I didn't view the page source before writing the post.
How does it look like Drupal? It's a custom theme.
I actually looked at the page source code to see the /drupal/ folder structure, then the editor e-mailed a correction. A lot of wordpress installs "look" like wordpress when you look at the individual post pages, specifically the comment input part.
Ditto what Bryan said. The theme looks beautiful; I just looked at the source code when the post said it was a custom CMS.
How does it look like Drupal? It's a custom theme.
I actually looked at the page source code to see the /drupal/ folder structure, then the editor e-mailed a correction. A lot of wordpress installs “look” like wordpress when you look at the individual post pages, specifically the comment input part.
Ditto what Bryan said. The theme looks beautiful; I just looked at the source code when the post said it was a custom CMS.
How does it look like Drupal? It's a custom theme.
I actually looked at the page source code to see the /drupal/ folder structure, then the editor e-mailed a correction. A lot of wordpress installs “look” like wordpress when you look at the individual post pages, specifically the comment input part.
Ditto what Bryan said. The theme looks beautiful; I just looked at the source code when the post said it was a custom CMS.