Web Services College of Life Sciences / College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing Andrew Millar, Web Services Manager

Web Team Pre March 2012 o CLS = 2 web posts, CMDN = 1 web post o CLS on Drupal, CMDN on T4 o Very little, if any interaction Post March 2012 o 4 web posts shared across 2 colleges. o 2 core funded, 2 funded by income. o Cross college collaboration and sharing of best practice.

College Web Team Merger CLS/CMDN Web Team

Core Principles 1.Mobile first, desktop second. 2.Create once, deploy many. 3.Integration not duplication.

Our Approach The problem o 1 size doesn’t fit all o Best tool doesn’t necessarily scale Our solution o Standardise on a versatile platform (Drupal) o Instance per project The Benefits o No danger of new functionality or upgrades breaking existing sites o Users can have as much freedom or restriction as they wish. o Agility Drawbacks o Lots of individual sites to maintain o Content Sharing

Aegir & Drupal

Core (e.g. 7.17) profiles sites all modules themes libraries sitename modules themes libraries PLATFORM

Updates Drush and makefile drush generate-makefile ; This file was auto-generated by drush_make core = 7.x api = 2 projects[] = "drupal" ; Modules projects[] = "ctools" projects[] = "cck" projects[] = "context" projects[] = "date" projects[] = " " projects[] = "features" projects[] = "filefield_sources" projects[] = "link" projects[] = "references" projects[] = "uuid" projects[] = "uuid_features" ; Themes projects[omega][subdir] = "sites/all/themes" ; This file was auto-generated by drush_make core = 7.x api = 2 projects[] = "drupal" ; Modules projects[] = "ctools" projects[] = "cck" projects[] = "context" projects[] = "date" projects[] = " " projects[] = "features" projects[] = "filefield_sources" projects[] = "link" projects[] = "references" projects[] = "uuid" projects[] = "uuid_features" ; Themes projects[omega][subdir] = "sites/all/themes"

Platform 2Updates Platform 1 Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5