New Texas State Homepage

The last 3 months of work at the office finally comes to fruition: we’ve launched the new Texas State University site! The old one was some pretty sloppy work, so I’m particularly excited by the quality of this new design.

Especially sexy bits for the technical folks:

  • XHTML Strict.
  • CSS-based design; not a table in sight.
  • Automatically generated headline text images.
  • All content managed through Magnolia, making it easily maintainable.
  • Unobtrusive Javascript, thanks to Prototype, which we all now adore.
  • Microformat output for events.
  • Rising Stars content managed in Magnolia, output to XML, rendered through Flash.
  • All URLs rewritten on the fly by Javascript to enable link tracking.
  • High performance custom caching architecture.

Next projects: give a similar treatment to the other managed sites and get a decent campus-wide events calendar up, going, and integrated with everything else.

3 Comments

  1. Posted May 22, 2008 at 3:16 pm | Permalink

    Please contact me as we need some Magnolia CMS development support.

    Thanks!

  2. Posted May 23, 2008 at 7:25 am | Permalink

    @Chris Drake

    I’m not doing any freelance work at the moment. However, I’m sure the good folks at Magnolia itself could help you out — they have a professional services/consulting organization there.

    There’s also an active user list which might be worth your joining.

    HTH,
    Sean

  3. Misha Teller
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

    Hey there!
    I am looking for Brit Baker, if you know his email address could you please send him mine?
    Much appreciated.

    Misha

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