The University of Kansas: Community Tool Box
A public service developed and managed by the University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development.
Goals:
- Upgrade to Drupal 10 before the End Of Life of Drupal 7.
- Minor design facelift.
- Performance and accessibility improvements.
- Hosting and deployment setup of Drupal 10 on the infrastructure of The University Of Kansas.
Challenges:
- Qualtrics integration / Drupal with Webforms.
- Structural inconsistencies discovered during the migration: The Drupal 7 translation method for nodes was not always consistent; in some cases, there was no connection between translations.
- Facing time limits on design reiterations.
- Right to left language support: Arabic and Farsi and fine-tuning nuances regarding fonts.
Outcomes:
- Went live on time, before Drupal 7 EOL.
- Core Web Vitals is now passed due to major performance and accessibility improvements.
- The client team is more than satisfied, we are continuing the cooperation with Support and Maintenance and working towards full ADA compliance and Drupal 11.
Nominated for the International Splash Awards in the category Education & Social / Community
BRAINSUM LLC was selected by the University through a public procurement process to upgrade Drupal from version 7 to 10, along with a minor design facelift.
We managed to exceed the expectations: the renewed site has been selected and nominated for the International Splash Awards, but more importantly the editors feel confident that this impactful knowledge base runs on a modern, reliable and future-proof platform that they can use easily.
