November 17, 2022
What’s new in the new system?
(We call it: “Drupal Cloud”)
Your hosts:
- Colin Murphy: colin_murphy2@brown.edu
- Ken Zirkel: kenneth_zirkel@brown.edu
New components:
- New look and new ways to present information [example of old] and [example of new]
- new multimedia capabilities in the page (and easier to maintain)
- Many components (ie, accordions, slideshows, certain callout boxes) can be edited right within a page instead of being entirely separate components
- Components can dynamically link to internal pages just by typing their name: [example]
Improved image handling
- image size doesn’t have to be precise (as before) but does need to fall within a certain range.
- Images can be cropped and re-cropped right in your page
- New looks possible; icons and illustrations from stock.adobe.com
New architectures possible:
- News and People can be tagged to appear in various places in your website
- Smaller centers can be integrated into their departments (to take advantage of shared assets)
- News from Brown and “in the news” items can be manually imported more easily