Earlier this week, we updated WordPress (the platform that powers sites.middlebury.edu). Along with updating the WordPress codebase, we also updated all the Midd blog themes and a number of plugins. There were many changes made to the backend of Midd blog themes to make them more flexible and easier to use.
Options have been added for […]…Continue Reading WordPress Update
Tag: Web Application Development
Website Performance: Pressflow, Varnish, Oh-My!
Executive summary:
We’ve migrated from core Drupal-6 to Pressflow, a back-port of Drupal-7 performance features. Using Pressflow allows us to cache anonymous web-requests (about 77% of our traffic) for 5-minutes and return them right from memory. While this vastly improves the amount of traffic we can handle as well as the speed of anonymous page-loads it […]…Continue Reading Website Performance: Pressflow, Varnish, Oh-My!
MiddLab
http://go.middlebury.edu/middlab
MiddLab is a new section of Middlebury’s website with no precedent: an academic network, uniting all of the… blah, blah blah.
Truth is, MiddLab has been hard for us to explain ever since we heard the idea. A research network featuring discussions and blogs, and linking together disciplinary themes? How does that […]…Continue Reading MiddLab
DrupalCon 2010 Trip Report Day 1
Hello from San Francisco! I was waylaid in Chicago and missed the morning presentations, but I wanted to share what I’ve learned so far at DrupalCon. First, a quick bullet point summary for those who don’t want to dive into the details:
Drupal now powers over 1% of the total websites, closely tied with Joomla. Wordpress […]…Continue Reading DrupalCon 2010 Trip Report Day 1
New Online Course Catalog
The LIS web application development group has created a new online course catalog. Below is a screencast describing how to use it.
Adam Franco was the lead developer of this project. Comments/feedback/suggestions welcome.
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Supported Web Browsers
I was asked as a member of the LIS Website Team to put together a quick post on supported web browsers for our site. In general our guideline for supporting a browser is to keep support for it for as long as the browser’s manufacturer is supporting it. This means we will try our best […]…Continue Reading Supported Web Browsers
Website Improvements #4: Previews
As I said at the start of this series, I aim to do at least one thing each week that improves our website for someone. Last week we had a number of improvements to the performance of the site that had a dramatic effect for everyone. Not every update to the site is quite that […]…Continue Reading Website Improvements #4: Previews