Web content management system. International office YPU

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to develop an application from scratch for the International Office from Yamaguchi Prefectural University. The working procedure and needs are completely unknown, therefore meetings and questions have been held. Then some ideas came out and once they were accepted the application development started. To be more efficient with the ideas, the old website has been also studied as a part of the process. The old website was heavy because of text images. There was more reason that think that the page visually not agreeable for users. And that’s one of the reasons to restart a new version of the website. The idea of the website is also to help users to be easier informed as well as make easier any kind of announcements. The calendar with the events is a very smart idea to do it. The calendar is very intuitive for users and as soon as a user enters into the website it can be seen. The information is accessible and no hided under any menu. That has been a very big advance on the design. The achievement of the functionality required by the staff is carried out using Drupal as our CMS system. That means that first of all that Drupal system structure and data model must be understand, and then adapt it to achieve the required functionality.