Oregon State Productions Blog

Sher Fenn from Central Web Services, who has done an amazing job in helping the OSU Web community get the most out of Drupal, is piloting a new brown bag series. Here are the details: Drupal on Rye is a brown bag, open forum that will attempt to draw  together intermediate to advanced OSU Drupal […]

The home page redesign project is moving steadily forward. We’ve produced mock-up and a prototype for testing. We’ve run the front page design past the steering committee, and members are now gathering and providing feedback. We’ve also been testing with users, gathering feedback on the visual design and layout. Reviews have been promising so far. […]

During the break, we’ve made some changes to the main OSU home page. We added the new tag to the OSU logo and updated some colors to make them brand compliant. These changes will be live beginning Monday, January 4. We’ve also moved the site search to the banner. Thanks to Central Web Services, OSU’s […]

The video intros we created for the Powered by Orange campaign are now available for download and incorporation with your video projects. In this phase of the campaign we’re trying to emphasize the positive impact that Oregon State makes in the areas of food, energy and water. If you have similarly themed material, and you […]

It’s official, Whitehouse.gov has followed OSU’s lead and made the switch to Drupal. It just goes to show that this content management system is versatile, reliable and, unlike other open source projects where support and development might dry up over time, this one isn’t going away anytime soon. A large number of OSU sites have […]

We’ve launched the latest version of the Powered by Orange Web site. So far, the PBO initiative has netted us thousands of pageviews and thousands more social media connections. This week’s events marry online activities with live events to celebrate the start of a new communications effort, a new school year, and a year of […]

OSU Web sites were recognized as top performers in a blog post about SEO and college sites. The author notes: Congratulations go out to you, the web and marketing teams and anyone else who touches the Oregon State University website because you’re all doing a tremendous job at effectively optimizing your site for search engines. […]

We’ve added a new blog page to the Students section of the main OSU Web site. Seven student blogs are highlighted, and an RSS feed links to the aggregate posts of these featured blogs. More student blogs can be found at blogs.oregonstate.edu, which also houses blogs for faculty and staff. This blog service was created […]

We’re pleased to note that the Powered by Orange Web site was awarded “Best Integration of Social Media” by both judges and peoples’ choice category in the EduStyle Awards. It’s a great honor and testament to the hard work of the Web Communications and University Marketing offices at OSU.