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Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Wordpress 2.5 was released today and we decided to do an upgrade to see how the upgrade process worked. Wordpress is used by thousands of people online and with its simplicity and straightforwardness we assumed the upgrade process would be the same.
We were right, upgrade was a snap, backup, disable plugins, upload, run script, enable [...]

iCal makes its debut on the events calendar

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We are proud to announce you can now subscribe to any calendar via iCal or save any individual event in iCal format. This will allow anyone to keep up with university events without having to check site every day. Just subscribe to a category of event you are interested in or a specific calendar.
Subscriptions
You can [...]

CMS sheds its baggage

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

For some time we have been moving our sites to a new enterprise level server environment. Transitioning sites between servers meant keeping our CMS in two environments and bounce between depending on which site was being edited. This became quite a task to keep both CMS’s up to date since one was php4 and the [...]

Site Updates: Admissions, Parents and Campus Map

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

The admissions homepage grows every semester, new programs being promoted and others ending. For most prospective students this is the first or second (wayne.edu or a print piece being first) impression of the university. Making the page engaging is key since getting them to the site is half way to applying. Including a random student [...]

Code Update: PHPSimpl 0.8.4

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

The newest version of PHPSimpl has been released and we have updated the code on the production web server. The release bring some much needed features to the framework and a few bug fixes.
We know this is not a widely used framework because we take an active role in its development and feature set. (We [...]