Simplicity, Abstraction, and the Modern Website: 10 Years Later

College Background

  • Came to the college in 2014, and was their first full-time web developer

  • Inherited 30+ websites made by many different people:

    • Internal: Faculty / Staff / Students (Graduate & Undergraduate)

    • Small (one-person) outside development companies

  • Was a wild west free-for-all: no steadfast rules (just guidelines); unit leaders thus had site built to their personal tastes.
  • A few sites built in Drupal, but no one seemed to really know how to use Drupal properly