University of Technology Sydney: Website redesign and Drupal upgrade

Continuing our longstanding partnership, we worked with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to redesign their website and upgrade their Drupal website.

Client: University of Technology Sydney
Industry: Education
Service types: Drupal and Web Development

Context

With the site averaging 1.1 million page views a month, site performance needed to be a key consideration when updating the UTS site.

It was evident early on that this would be a comprehensive project. It involved migrating 22k nodes of published content from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. We updated landing pages that used a static template design in the Drupal 7 version of the site to flexible template designs in Drupal 8.

The solutions

We wanted to improve site performance by implementing a new remote entity adapter framework.

The new adapter framework maintains a key-value store for each entity-type serving as a local mirror for the content. When a page is loaded on the site, our Drupal 8 implementation first attempts to find it in the local mirror, reducing load on the web-service and improving site performance.

The flexible templates were implemented using the paragraphs module, combined with flexbox and styleguide components. This created a fully modular content management experience.

The styleguide components developed for the site are platform independent (not tied down to Drupal) and use modular js, sass and twig templates. The benefit of this approach means that UTS can use the styleguide components and implement them across their entire web presence.

The results

The project began in December 2016. The new website was successfully launched in early September 2017.

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