Trinity University is a liberal arts and sciences university based in San Antonio, Texas. Trinity required support with ongoing customization, integration, and configuration work for their Drupal site.
ImageX’s passion for education significantly enhanced the staff’s technical knowledge, helping them grow exponentially and improve their development strategy.
Their customizable templates also greatly helped users showcase their work and control content editing."
About the project
We partnered with Trinity University for all of their backend needs, including Drupal and module development, as well as business objectives and the logic behind some of their new projects. We helped iron out requirements and provided workable solutions on implementing ideas, while also helping stakeholders who would benefit from the project to reach their individual constituencies’ goals.
[ImageX] has been an amazing partner as a go-to developer.”
As an Acquia Preferred Partner, we worked with the Trinity team to determine what Acquia can support and to integrate their existing platforms. Understanding Acquia’s capabilities and how they can best leverage it to improve their existing Drupal properties helped the client make implementation decisions aligned to their custom specifications.
The customization and optimization of their Drupal site led to significant increases in site usage, administrative efficiency, and content publication. We also provided an educational partnership with their in-house team, providing them with context on the system, in addition to documentation and training. This has grown their success exponentially.
Working with the Trinity team, we revamped the Information Architecture and worked with stakeholders to define the goals of each page to help keep content clean and focused. Customization included a set of templates for faculty members and other organizations within the campus family. In moving from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 we provided an entirely new interface that was focused on the end-users and the goals they needed to achieve. e.g prospective students, faculty, and staff, etc.
ImageX didn't provide specific PHP training, but rather showed our developer why they wrote the things that they did. This type of educational partnership has grown our success exponentially."
The customizable templates for faculty members on campus allowed the team to essentially bring back faculty members who had moved away from using the Trinity website for publishing due to the difficulty of editing experience. They have now returned to the main domain, helping the site as a whole provide additional, centralized thought-leadership content.
We also helped architect their Courses of Study Bulletin (COSB) data import, making it easier to keep track of course changes, and improving the user experience of keeping the site up to date.
Through these initiatives, the site is receiving an increased audience, which has also helped with bounce rates and engagement. Overall, our effort helped the increase in staff education as well as increasing the number of quality viewers on the website.
Latest Updates
We helped Trinity to move the site to Drupal 9 in June 2021.
ImageX and Trinity presented a panel case study at DrupalCon 2021.
Read Trinity University's full independent review of working with ImageX.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal allowed the level of customization that was needed for Trinity University. The customization and optimization of the site, using Drupal, resulted in large increases in site usage, efficiency, and the ability to have templates for faculty members and other University stakeholders.
Technical Specifications
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Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Acquia Lightning was chosen because of its deep integration with the Acquia Cloud services, as well as it provides quite a few properly configured components out-of-the-box.
