ATLAS public website: evolution to Drupal 8

ATLAS public website: evolution to Drupal 8

Four years after deployment of the public website using the Drupal 7 content management system, the ATLAS Education & Outreach group is in the process of migrating to the new CERN Drupal 8 infrastructure. We present lessons learned from the development, usage and evolution of the original websit...

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Main Author: Goldfarb Steven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2020/21/epjconf_chep2020_08004.pdf
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spelling doaj-2b09a81cde7144b7a43f8cfd8d83b1832021-08-02T15:06:11ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2020-01-012450800410.1051/epjconf/202024508004epjconf_chep2020_08004ATLAS public website: evolution to Drupal 8Goldfarb Steven0The University of MelbourneFour years after deployment of the public website using the Drupal 7 content management system, the ATLAS Education & Outreach group is in the process of migrating to the new CERN Drupal 8 infrastructure. We present lessons learned from the development, usage and evolution of the original website, and how the choice of technology helped to shape and reinforce our communication strategy. We then discuss tactics for the migration to Drupal 8, including our choice to use the CERN-override theme. This theme was developed by the CERN web team to support clients like the ATLAS experiment at the LHC to develop websites in the relatively complex and non-intuitive environment of Drupal. Furthermore, CERN has encouraged usage of this theme to mitigate support and ease future migration. We present the effects that this choice has on the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the new website.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2020/21/epjconf_chep2020_08004.pdf
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description Four years after deployment of the public website using the Drupal 7 content management system, the ATLAS Education & Outreach group is in the process of migrating to the new CERN Drupal 8 infrastructure. We present lessons learned from the development, usage and evolution of the original website, and how the choice of technology helped to shape and reinforce our communication strategy. We then discuss tactics for the migration to Drupal 8, including our choice to use the CERN-override theme. This theme was developed by the CERN web team to support clients like the ATLAS experiment at the LHC to develop websites in the relatively complex and non-intuitive environment of Drupal. Furthermore, CERN has encouraged usage of this theme to mitigate support and ease future migration. We present the effects that this choice has on the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the new website.
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