Have you ever had to put multiple events in the calendar at events.wayne.edu that were so similar you wished there was a way to just copy your event instead of re-entering all that data? We’ve been working on an event copy feature and now it’s available for you to use.
Want to copy an event?

When you [...]

If you use the online Campus Map to directly link to a building you will notice some changes today with the building and category list page. We added some additional information about every building on the map. Check out the old version (left) and the new version (right) above. Here is also run down of [...]

For the past year we have been present on quite a few social networks. We started out with Twitter last year then moved to Facebook and beyond. We made it a point to not promote our presence on these sites and see how fast they grew organically.
Recently I have been going around campus talking with [...]

Looking for a place to eat on campus?
Well search no further, check out Wayne State Campus Map for food venues around campus!
If you are not familiar with our campus map, click here

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You probably have not noticed but we made a slight change to the flash panel on wayne.edu. In the top drawer we place success stories from around campus. But before you get to the stories it was designed to display a branding image.

Why this made sense then
It made sense when we first launched because it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]