Here are some websites and resources that may be useful for a redesign of UTC.edu. Higher Education sites College of Southern Nevada Case Study: Acquia | College of Southern Nevada | Acquia Engage Award 2016 Finalist 68 percent increase in page views 60 percent decrease in bounce rate 90 percent increase in mobile visitors Austin Peay State […]
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Integrating Content from External Sources into OU Campus Using RSS, PHP, and JavaScript
By Chris Gilligan on February 22, 2016 in Consulting, Content Management Systems, Education, OU Campus, PHP, Wordpress
The web team of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga uses PHP and RSS to syndicate blog content, news releases, and calendar events into their main website. PHP SimpleXML is used to parse the XML of the RSS feeds. We import a variety of feeds, from WordPress, from Master Calendar, and from other sites such as […]
University Website and Blog Redesign
This was a team project for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, my alma mater and current employer. I was hired by UTC as web development specialist in late 2012, and worked with a cross-discipline team on the redesign, information architecture, 10,000 page migration to CMS and user training for over 300 web editors. The […]