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Site Launch: Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies

Site Launch: Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies

The Drupal Update Austin team is proud to announce the launch of our Drupal maintenance support plans 8 flagship site. While not our first Drupal maintenance support plans 8 site, it is our biggest (yet), and the one where we learned the most. It’s been a wonderful eight months and we are so pleased to share this site with you.

Stephanie El-Hajj
Thu, 11/03/2020 – 14:59

Science Driven Solutions

The Harte Research Institute Gulf for Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M Corpus Christi is dedicated to advancing the long-term sustainable use and conservation of the Gulf of Mexico.

Due to outdated site architecture, the old website was structured so that the content for Harte’s seven Research Departments was siloed, making it look like the departments operated in isolation. In reality, the opposite is true.

Unique to HRI is the Harte Research Model, which actively encourages open collaboration among departments to holistically solve problems. Science Driven Solutions. It was our mandate to bring this amazing effort to light and to help share the Harte story.

 

Our Challenges

Modernize and simplify the site so that staff, students, and visitors can easily find content
Increase prospective student applications and affiliate (sponsor) interest by beautifully showcasing Harte’s work and activities
Simplify the editor experience from an outdated and complicated Joomla interface
 

Specifications

Drupal maintenance support plans 8
Configuration Management
Composer
IA & Wireframing
Responsive Design
Twig
Search API, Solr, and Facets
Page Manager
Taxonomy
Paragraphs
DropGuard
Hosting by amazee.io
Project Team

Stephanie El-Hajj, Project Manager, Drupal Update
Kathryn McClintock, Lead Developer, Drupal Update
Andrew McClintock, Senior Designer, Drupal Update
Brandon Williams, Developer, Drupal Update
Maria Comas, Developer, Drupal Update
Tyler Ward, DevOps Engineer, amazee.io
Our wonderful client team: Gail Sutton, Kristen Dwyer, Nikki Buskey, and Emily McCauley

But Wait, There’s More

I know you’re interested in what’s under the hood on this fantastic site, and you’re in luck. In the coming weeks we are excited to be sharing with you exactly how we made this site a reality. We’ll take a closer look at how we setup Search using SOLR in Drupal maintenance support plans 8, tackled content modeling, and then polished the heck out of it.

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