https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024508004
ATLAS public website: evolution to Drupal 8
The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
* Corresponding author: steven.goldfarb@cern.ch
† ©2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. CC-BY-4.0 license.
Published online: 16 November 2020
Four years after deployment of the public website using the Drupal 7 content management system, the ATLAS Education & Outreach group is in the process of migrating to the new CERN Drupal 8 infrastructure. We present lessons learned from the development, usage and evolution of the original website, and how the choice of technology helped to shape and reinforce our communication strategy. We then discuss tactics for the migration to Drupal 8, including our choice to use the CERN-override theme. This theme was developed by the CERN web team to support clients like the ATLAS experiment at the LHC to develop websites in the relatively complex and non-intuitive environment of Drupal. Furthermore, CERN has encouraged usage of this theme to mitigate support and ease future migration. We present the effects that this choice has on the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the new website.
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