Introduction

• Who we are • Craig Farris, Jessica Hayes and Christian Coulon

• About UC Davis• 32,653 students• 4,009 academic staff• 13,311 non-academic staff• 207,974 living alumni• 4 colleges (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological

Sciences, Engineering, Letters and Science) • 6 professional schools (Education, Law, Management, Medicine,

Veterinary Medicine, and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing)

Cascade at UC Davis

• Clients

• Usage Statistics

• Goals of the service

• Background

• Demo

The New Model

• Provides standard formats and two templates

• Centralizes core site administration, resources and enhancements

• Modular content blocks

• Easy site configuration

Inner Workings

• CSS content block model• Provides the core styling of optional content blocks and region-

specific styling of elements

• Block processor• Receives XML for attached content blocks; includes individual

processors• Unique identifier is used to match block XML with correct individual

processor• Block output wrapped in a content box (for CSS)• Undefined block defaults as raw XHTML

• Block head• Loads specific JS or CSS required by any defined block using JS,

loading each required element only once

Current Block Library

• Available currently:• Code block – accepts an include statement to output dynamic content• FAQ block – includes basic accordion effect• Feature block• RSS block• Simple Form Builder block – front end only, client provides the backend processing

Slideshow block – jQuery-based rotating image slideshow

• Blocks for future development:• Video/Multimedia• XHTML block• People (Staff, Faculty)• Events• Social media (Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr)• Cross-site blocks• Search block

Resources & Questions

• For a copy of handouts and presentation slides, visit http://cms.ucdavis.edu/conference/

• Question and answer period