Wayne State Web Team

Wayne State University Web Team Blog

Getting down to business

Over the past two months have been slowing down our client work in an effort to focus on the universities main homepage and central university tools. Being the second day of work things seem to be going as planned, we squashed a few bugs in the homepage and are discussing additional features to the child pages. All of the pages are going to essentially be mini portals, giving the user aggregated information relative to the pages content, kinda like Google Adsense but not for profit.

Cleaning up our sloppiness left over from 2007 is also underway. We are starting out with our file server, it store all the active, archive and tools for projects. Starting out by archiving all the old stuff and updating all the current projects has been tedious but necessary.

In addition our server move is almost complete, just two sites left to go and cwis-1 will be re purposed. Unfortunately they are some high traffic sites, the Public Relations (opens new window) site and the Board of Governors (opens new window) site. Getting those off the old server means we will no longer have to support two versions of our CMS (opens new window) and we can stick to updating just one in a single environment.