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NUIT A&RT Presenting @ CMSEXPO 2013

By Harlan Wallach on 15 May 2013 – 6:26 am
Location: (42° 2' 42"N x 88° 18' 44"W)

Traveling all the way to downtown Evanston this afternoon to present at the 2013 CMS EXPO at the Orrington Hotel. The name of my talk today is “Using Drupal in Higher Education: A Flexible Tool in a Mixed CMS Environment“, and you can read about it here.

Looking for a web design – UX job ?

By Harlan Wallach on 9 Mar 2012 – 3:59 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

    WEB Specialist | Designer UX | Northwestern University Information Technology Work in a dynamic development shop in one of the top universities in the world. Great work environment and benefits. Exciting and varied projects serving the pedagogical and research enterprise. We need a great designer to work with our teaching and research project [...]

Great Chicago Fire Website Permalinks

By Gus Childs on 14 Dec 2011 – 9:27 am
Location: (41° 52' 41"N x 88° 22' 12"W)

As described in a previous post,  alongside the improvements to the Chicago Fire iPhone app were a number of additions to the website, The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory. The primary focus of these updates were to create permalinks for every object found on the site. This was done for two reasons: To [...]

iBradley Master Class: Web and Interactive Design

By NUAMPS on 29 Apr 2011 – 3:13 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

Chris Free and I will be presenting the Master Class for Web and Interactive Design at 4pm today.  We wanted to make or slide deck and assets availble to everyone, so here they are.  The sessions will be recorded by the IM students and we will hopefully have the session online when they make that [...]

DrupalCon 2011

By NUAMPS on 8 Mar 2011 – 11:15 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

I feel pretty bad using WordPress to make updates about DrupalCon! Either way, I thought the badges were pretty cool with QR codes for individual contact information.

DrupalCon Chicago 2011

By NUAMPS on 25 Feb 2011 – 1:28 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

Jon and I are gearing up for DrupalCon Chicago in two weeks.  Should be a great event!

Global Health Portal Phase 2 Launched Today

By NUAMPS on 14 Feb 2011 – 5:12 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

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
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

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
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

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 [...]

Undergrad Research Opportunities Site Launched!

By NUAMPS on 9 Sep 2010 – 11:03 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

I’m happy to announce that the new Undergrad Research at Northwestern University site launched this morning.  Earlier this year we launched the Undergrad Research Blogs, which have been a tremendous success.  The main site that launched today will be a springboard into a larger project that will be kicking off soon. We were able to [...]

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