Center for Teaching launches new website
Loved working on this site!
CFT wanted to combine three separate sites they were maintaining into one with the new CFT website — their existing website, the CFT Podcast and the CFT blog. They had been maintaining the existing site entirely in Dreamweaver and were very happy to start using a content management system.
We migrated them into WordPress for several reasons: several members of their staff were already comfortable with using WordPress – and we were also going to be combining those 2 existing wordpress blog sites into the new site, so that content was a simple WP to WP migration.
At first glance – the old CFT site didn’t seem like a very big site. We definitely underestimated the size and time necessary for the migration; it was like an onion — or one of those Russian dolls! Layer after layer … we migrated about 120 pages the first week and that was just the beginning!
The CFT homepage is a combination of blog posts, event registrations and highlighting the numerous Teaching Guides that CFT provides. To make the homepage even more self-sufficient – we wrote a little script to query their event registration system and pull the next 5 events available for registration and display them over there on the right.
Many thanks to the fabulous Rhett McDaniel over in the CFT — he maintains their site and worked tirelessly migrating pages, checking hundreds and hundreds of links, and adding cool photos all over the place!
September 11th, 2010
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