Tag Archives: Development

Making Connections: Twitter, Facebook, Feedburner and WordPress

By NUAMPS on 7 Mar 2011 – 5:39 pm
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Twitter and Facebook have been around for quite some time now, but it seems like everyone has really embraced the culture and has started to use them at true channels of content distribution (and consumption).  All of the blogs that we produce are built using WordPress, which gives us tremendous flexibility for extending the functionality [...]

Global Health Portal Phase 2 Launched Today

By NUAMPS on 14 Feb 2011 – 5:12 pm
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The Global Health Portal at Northwestern University is a site that we launched in May 2010, today we are happy to have launched the second phase of the portal.  Which include a new Media Archive and Article Archive.  The site is now using WordPress for the blog section of the site and the main site [...]

Drupal: Context and why its better than just using blocks

By NUAMPS on 14 Oct 2010 – 2:58 pm
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One of the best things about Drupal is that there are many different ways to do the same thing, I would probably say that this is one of the curses of Drupal as well.  I would guess that 95%+ of the Drupal powered websites use Drupal blocks for some elements of the site.  Blocks are [...]

Building a Website Should be Hard

By NUAMPS on 5 Oct 2010 – 8:55 am
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Building a (good) website should be hard, because building a good website is hard. With all of the technology, user-friendly platforms, and GUI tools available today, we often forget this. Building a good website takes an awful lot of work. It’s time consuming, and at the end of the day regardless of what CMS we [...]

Drupal: Modules you can’t live without

By NUAMPS on 1 Sep 2010 – 9:15 am
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Drupal is rapidly becoming one of the most widely used content management systems in the world, reportedly running 1% of the internet worldwide.  (Still less than WordPress, but impressive none the less). One question that I tend to hear often is “what modules do you recommend for every site?”  This question is not easily answered, [...]

MyOncofertility.org Version 2 Launched

By NUAMPS on 23 Feb 2009 – 5:50 pm
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NUAMPS has spent the last few months working on a migration of MyOncofertility.org from a Flash based site to a Drupal based site.  This has been an exciting process!  Drupal is an amazing platform which we hope to continue to utilize when it fits the project. Check out the version 2 of MyOncofertility.org here.

Gridiron Flow Public Beta is awesome!

By NUAMPS on 19 Feb 2009 – 1:07 pm
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The Gridiron Flow public beta has been a long time coming, but looks to be well worth the wait! Geared towards video production professionals, as well as graphic designers and Photoshop artists, it looks like it may soon become an industry standard. The basic idea of Flow is to simplify the locating of assets related [...]

Drupal is spreading: Recovery.org

By NUAMPS on 18 Feb 2009 – 12:45 pm
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Until recently one of the largest sites using Drupal was the Onion.  The new White House sponsored site, Recovery.org, has been built using Drupal.  There is an excellent article at techPresident about what this means: “Second, it shows that the White House isn’t putting much stock in the argument that collaboratively-built software isn’t stable or [...]

Science in Society Blog Launch

By NUAMPS on 17 Feb 2009 – 12:14 pm
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The Science in Society Blog launched this morning.  The blog is a supplement to the current Science in Society website.  The blog will feature multiple authors, writing about a variety of issues regarding, science, eduction, energy and much more. The blog was built on the WordPress platform.  And is using the following plugins: Addicted To [...]

13+ Excellent WordPress Plugins

By NUAMPS on 11 Feb 2009 – 12:50 pm
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Blogs have become extremely popular in the last few years.  And WordPress is the Cadillac of blogging platforms.  This is a list of the essential WordPress plugins. Addicted to Live Search -  Putting the debate of whether an internal site search is needed, if you would like to provide a search on your site, this [...]

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