KNECTAR
UMass Amherst HFA: One Drupal pattern for twenty departments
- Technical Lead, Developer
- $50,000 - $100,000
- Drupal
- Transit Authority Figures
- https://www.umass.edu/uww/pre-college
The College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UMass Amherst has more than twenty departments. With Transit Authority Figures, we built a Drupal distribution so each one could launch on the same design.
The job
The College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UMass Amherst houses more than twenty departments, programs, and centers. Each needed a site. The college needed them to look related. Transit Authority Figures led the design. Knectar built the Drupal distribution.
What we built
A department starts from the shared design. Content types and taxonomies cover programs, faculty, and events. A Blocks Placer lets an editor position slideshows, accent colors, and the other provided blocks. The design includes a rotating footer background and a moving logo.
Outcomes
A department can launch without a new design. The college keeps one visual system. Editors arrange the blocks they were given.