Weekly Web Updates – March 27, 2017

We upgraded the server that runs omeka.middlebury.edu. This server is now using the Chef server configuration tool to manage settings so that we can ensure proper change management over its setup.

The WordPress project is conducting a poll about the editor you use when writing posts:

We’ve upgraded the Google Custom Search engine used on our Drupal sites to version 2 of their API, now that version 1 is no longer supported. A few styles were cleaned up, including removal of the double underlines for links in search results, but there should be no major changes with this upgrade. Please let us know if you experience issues with search on our Drupal sites.

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Removed the field labels for the caption and subtitle fields on the Davis UWC profiles.
  • The “simple HTML” text format in the Middlebury Drupal site, used for event blurbs, now allows setting text styles, such as “fine print”.

Ongoing Work

  • Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
  • Building out the configuration of our  CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
  • Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
  • Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).