About the Media Education Lab
The Media Education Lab, founded by Renee Hobbs, a Professor of Communication Studies at the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting media literacy worldwide. Their website provides comprehensive information about the Lab, including details about their research, events, seminars, and workshops. It is a valuable resource for educators, teachers, and students interested in media literacy. The site also features a collection of publications by the Lab's members. The website is regularly updated with the latest activities and contributions from the Media Education Lab.
About the project
Project Overview
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The goal of this project was to migrate the website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10.
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The website also had an old design and the Media Education Lab decided to do a complete revamp of the design and branding. So, we went with a new custom design.
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The content was not organized into various categories such as books, events, publications, teaching resources, videos, etc.
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The events page needed a search of its own to be able to search for upcoming events and past events
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The Research and Scholarship page needed a search of its own to facilitate the users to search for the right book, research paper, working paper, or book chapter.
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It was also required to make the website mobile-friendly.
Our Approach
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We migrated the existing content from Drupal 7 to 10.
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The content was organized into different content types based on the different types of information like - Book chapters, research papers, working papers, books, videos, blogs, events, etc.
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We set up the website’s search feature to include all the content on the website to be indexed.
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Individual searches and filters were set up on the Research & Scholarship and Events page.
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The events page was divided into two separate tabs to show upcoming and past events.
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New categories were added to events called “Event Types” to filter events according to the type.
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The website was built with a brand new Drupal theme, with Media Education Lab’s colors and new logo.
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A new “Services” page was created.
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The website was redesigned from the ground up using the latest HTML and CSS standards to make it on-page SEO friendly.
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Bootstrap was used as the base theme of this site and it gave the website the power of mobile responsiveness.
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We worked closely with the branding team of Media Education Lab to implement the new brand guidelines set by the client.
Why Drupal was chosen
The website was initially running on Drupal 5 which we migrated to Drupal 7 several years ago. Now it was time to upgrade the site to Drupal 10 with a brand new design.
Technical Specifications
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