When WordPress Rode into Drupal Country Well, partner, on October 25, we saddled up and pulled off another big move — blog.utc.edu finally rode into the same hosting sunset as www.utc.edu. After years of livin’ on different ranches (servers, if you’re fancy), these two digital cowpokes are now together at last! Cue the tumbleweed and…
The Family Tree of Navigation
Sidebar Menus Reveal Their Roots The UTC website just got a little more ancestral. Our sidebar navigation now proudly shows a page’s “parent” link when you’re viewing one of its “children”—because every good family deserves to stay connected. Before this update, wandering deep into a department’s pages felt a bit like showing up at a…
Content Tip: Add a News Widget!
The UTC News Widget automatically pulls the latest stories from the UTC News blog directly into our website, keeping content fresh and relevant without having to manually update. Designed to showcase campus achievements, research breakthroughs, student success, and more, the news widget is filtered by specific programs, colleges, or topics—making it easy to deliver targeted news to…
Do you know about UTC’s new Generative AI…ChattUTC?
UTC IT is deploying a new enterprise generative AI platform that gives employees access to multiple leading AI models including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Mistral AI. The platform operates entirely within UTC’s network boundaries, protecting your data. (Note: While this tool maintains strong security controls, it is not currently approved for sensitive, confidential, or…
Enhancing Media File Management
As of the last deployment on May 9, the Web Dev Team implemented the Media Replace and Media Delete modules in Drupal to offer greater control and flexibility for site administrators. Media Replace allows users to update the underlying file of a media entity—such as swapping out an outdated image or PDF—without breaking existing references…
Good file management is like good housekeeping…
…no one notices it until it’s missing. As we move to our new host environment, the UTC Web Team is evaluating file storage and making some adjustments and recommendations. Storing large files directly on a website consume valuable server space and can dramatically slow down page load times, leading to a poor user experience and…
Required Silktide Training Due 5/31/2025
As you may have heard, Silktide is our new website quality assurance tool, replacing Acquia Optimize (formerly Monsido). Silktide offers a more comprehensive and user-friendly approach to improving our website’s accessibility, SEO, content quality, and overall performance. (Get a preview here in this short video and/or read our article here.) As part of our ongoing efforts to…