Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Two years and 25000 web pages

It’s been a slow start to the blogging year in the Web Office, but I’m happy to belatedly start the ball rolling for 2011 with a quick update on what we've been up to recently.

It’s now two years since the first Web CMS-published website went live, and six months since my previous round-up post. Quite a few more sites have gone live in that time:

Quick stats

The amount of content now being published by the CMS is vast: over 25000 web pages and almost double that number of related files. That’s over 7Gb of data, published by more than 500 people who have been trained to use the system.

Coming up

There’s more still to come too, including in the near future:

  • A complete revamp of student recruitment sites
  • Lots of staff- and student-facing content from the Academic Registry
  • New pages from the Accommodation Office
  • New Finance Department pages

Other projects

I should add that I had virtually nothing to do with any of the sites above and almost all the credit belongs with other folk in the Web Office team. I’ve been kept busy with a few other things, including:

  • developing a public-facing view of Pure, the University’s new research database
  • building an online community site for alumni and friends of the University
  • bringing a CMS-perspective to plans for an integrated digital signage system for campus

Despite the slow start to the year on the blog, there are hopefully more posts to come and I’ll cover these projects in more detail in future posts.

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