About six weeks ago, I was contacted by University Communications to see if I wanted to be included in their ZotZine magazine. They do a monthly feature on people at UCI and like to include favorite lists as a fun way of getting to know others on campus. They asked me to provide a list of my … [Read more...]
Introducing Faculty Websites
September 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We launched the Beta version of Faculty Websites in May. Over the past few months we've been slowly growing, mostly by word of mouth. As of today, we have 52 Faculty Websites. Not all of them are publicly listed as the faculty members decide when they are ready to make their sites more widely … [Read more...]
Blogs to Sites
August 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In August 2009, OIT introduced a blogging service to UCI using WordPress. Over the past two years the service has grown as people have discovered how easy it is to create a blog or a simple website using WordPress. In the past two years, both WordPress and how people are using it has evolved to … [Read more...]
Faculty Websites (BETA)
May 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We have been working on a new project to bring the power of WordPress to faculty websites. We launched Blogs@UCI in the summer of 2009 as a pilot project. The pilot lasted one year while we evaluated the service to see if it was valuable to the university. It took off slowly but steadily and became … [Read more...]
WordPress MultiSite and WPMU DEV
March 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I am heading up a project to use WordPress multi-site as a Content Management System (CMS) for faculty websites on campus. We have been running WordPress for our Blogs@UCI system since 2009 with great success. The reason we are doing a different installation for faculty sites is that we want to … [Read more...]