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- UD officially acquires Chrysler property in Newark
- United Way campaign concludes with contributions topping $196,000
- UD launches Center for Political Communication
- Education professor inducted into Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi
- UD awarded funds for cyberinfrastructure development
- UD figure skaters excel at Eastern Sectionals
- Princeton anthropologist addresses human language and art in Darwin lecture
- Violinist Xiang Gao to lead China tour in June
- Delaware art history grad student honored for best paper
- MSERC programs in math education receive continued funding
- UD Library Associates elects officers for 2010
- Richards to return to faculty in College of Health Sciences
- UD Police seek information about injured student
- For the Record, Nov. 20, 2009
- UD in the News, Nov. 20, 2009
- UD planning teachers institute in cooperation with Yale National Initiative
- PCS, Academy of Lifelong Learning receive award
- Record 334 students receive General Honors Awards
- Vaughan elected interim president of national education organization
- Lambda Chi Alpha completes annual food drive
- Second Life Outsider art show seen a success
- Dec. 2: Former RNC chairperson Ed Gillespie to speak
- UD Collegiate Figure Skating Team wins Cornell competition
- UD students tour CIA headquarters
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center established
- American Vacuum Society honors UD doctoral student
- UD hosts annual Delaware Space Grant Research Symposium
- UD ranks among top institutions in study abroad
- UD's second hydrogen fuel cell bus carries special guests
- Junior Chefs Rockfish Cook-Off accepting entries
- More News >>
- Dec. 2: Former RNC chairperson Ed Gillespie to speak
- Nov. 30-Dec. 4: College School schedules book fair
- Dec. 1: LGBT community to mark World AIDS Day
- Dec. 3: Center plans Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
- Dec. 6: New Castle County Alumni Club plans Winterthur holiday event
- Dec. 6: UD alumni events planned in Baltimore, Philadelphia
- Dec. 6: 'Jams for Jimmy' benefit concert to be held in Wilmington
- Dec. 7: Black Student Union to present program on racial stereotypes
- Dec. 12: Blue Hens men's basketball team plans toy drive
- May 7: Phi Kappa Phi plans ceremony
- Oct. 11-Nov. 29: International Film Series offered Sundays at Trabant
- Sept. 9-Dec. 2: 'Assessing Obama' series to feature faculty, national speakers
- Sept. 9-Dec. 2: 'Research on Women' fall lecture series announced
- Sept. 18-Dec. 18: Library's 'Lion Awakes' exhibition looks at reggae, Marley
- Sept. 26-May 1: Take in an opera at the Met with UD matinee tickets
- More What's Happening >>
- UD calendar >>
- Nov. 24 is final enrollment day for Flexible Spending Accounts
- Jan. 6, 28: Employee Nights at UD basketball games set
- Changes ahead for recognition of student honors
- Bicyclists, motorists need to watch out for one another
- Nominations sought for Redding Award recognizing campus diversity efforts
- Nov. 30: Chemical hygiene, lab safety survey deadline
- Princeton Review announces student survey
- UD's Winter Faculty Institute kicks off Jan. 5
- State offers UD faculty, staff free health risk assessment
- Upgrade to Windows 7 available for UD students
- More Campus FYI >>
2:43 p.m., June 1, 2009----Are you planning to revamp your Web site this summer? Effective June 1, the University of Delaware's Office of Information Technologies (IT) is extending the UDrupal service to more departments who want to use the Drupal open source content management system to develop or update Web sites.
The UDrupal service is flexible enough to allow both sophisticated and simple Web sites and offers Web developers the opportunity to separate content from design, making it easier to implement best practices in Web development.
As a pilot this spring, about 35 Web sites began development on the UDrupal service, a Drupal software installation designed and hosted by IT for UD departments to use. IT now invites other campus Web developers to bring their sites to UDrupal this summer.
Why use Drupal?
Drupal offers a department the opportunity to organize its Web efforts to take full advantage of staff expertise. That is, a CITA or other Web-savvy staff member can design a Web site's appearance, incorporate appropriate UD-branding, set up the site's structure and set user roles to allow others to add or edit content.
These “content providers” can update the site without learning HTML or other programming or design tools. This process allows the people closest to the content to update a site quickly, helping keep the Web site current and fresh.
How can I get started with UDrupal?
Beginning this month, IT has launched a UDrupal documentation site and is offering training classes designed to introduce Drupal to a wider group of campus Web developers.
- Web Presence and Web Strategies: Web Presence and Web Strategies: Learn about framing your online message by making best use of your own content, of your own staff and their skills, of the tools supported at UD and of those available on the Internet. (First offered: June 3)
- Drupal: Site Administrator I: Hands-on training for site administrators in site creation and configuration. This session includes access to a temporary Drupal site. (First offered: June 10)
- Drupal: Content Provider I: Hands-on training for content providers about adding content to a Drupal site. This session includes access to a temporary Drupal site. (First offered: June 19)
A complete list of classes is available online. Select Calendar and Class Registration from the top of the middle column.
Also, directions for requesting a UDrupal site are available online. Select “Request a Drupal Site.”
Who is using Drupal?
See who is using Drupal around the world and at the University of Delaware.