Recent upgrades to a resource for campus website editors are intended to address their needs for information on the Drupal content management system.

The University of Windsor website is a collection of more than 1,000 individual websites with more than 300,000 pages, notes web design and development lead Rob Aitkens.

Keeping them current and relevant involves content editors in offices across the campus; he and his colleagues in Information Technology Services and Public Affairs and Communications want to ensure they get the required support.

“We are trying to make the uwindsor.ca/drupal site the singular key resource for those responsible for web content,” Aitkens says. “It answers questions about the software and our specific processes here at the University.”

The available material includes:

• an online guide to using Drupal;
• information on planning a site, with a sample site map and a link to free tool to create one;
• a copy of the search engine optimization guide from Google;
• a step-by-step guide to the process of creating a new site; and
• links to libraries of free images, as well as a request for assistance from the Web Services Group.

Aitkens says the team invites feedback from users on what types of help they need and how to improve the site. He encourages anyone responsible for an official UWindsor site to contact him at raitkens@uwindsor.ca.