I know, amazing… we’re still here. A lot has changed since the last posts nearly six months ago. We (within IT) have seen some some big changes within our organization and even bigger changes regarding IT projects. Lots of exciting stuff so I hope that it all gets showcased for the campus community soon. I digress…
I wanted to take this opportunity to firstly, let you know we’re still here and making progress on the project and secondly, invite those on-campus to visit the staging area where the site will be built out into a “go-live” state. Access is currently restricted to the EWU campus network because the environment isn’t ready for public consumption and I really don’t want search engines crawling this area…if anyone really needs access and you can’t be on the EWU network, please contact me directly and we’ll work something out. The staging area can be seen by visiting http://redesign.ewu.edu. Please note that this is a staging area and may be subject to unannounced maintenance and changes. There will also be a lot of unstyled and completely made-up content while new pages are being built out.
A few facts about the staging environment:
- Everything you see is published through the Ingeniux CMS Version 6
- “Structured URLs” are being used instead of x numbers
- Nginx (“Engine-X”) is being used for both load balancing and serving static content. I could write a whole post on why nginx is cool but that would bore most of you so if you’re interested, check it out here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main.
- Yslow rules are mostly implemented but there’s still work to be done
Please feel free to leave comments or questions!
