CAFE Web Platform Announcement 🎉

Published on February 2, 2022

Agricultural Communications’ Web Services Team is excited to announce its next generation of the College Web Platform. The platform is built on Drupal 9 and boasts substantial improvements in design, layout flexibility, branding, mobile responsiveness and accessibility. These improvements will help our site administrators to build resilient, robust and future-proof websites. The new platform greatly improves user experience for both end users and site builders.

Explore the Possibilities

Take the new CAFE Web Platform for a spin by previewing a demo site that utilizes the new design, layout and content options.

Click the button below to view a site built using the new platform.

Open Demo Site

How will the transition process be coordinated?

1. When your transition window opens, Web Services will create a Drupal 9 staging site that will eventually replace your current site.

2. Web Services will enroll you in CAFE Web Training through Canvas. This training will prepare you for building your Drupal 9 site. After you complete this training, Web Services will communicate onboarding details for your Drupal 9 staging site.

3. Once onboarded, you should begin to build out your Drupal 9 staging site.
   Note: During the transition process, your current Drupal 7 site will remain live. You should continue to maintain that site as you normally would.

4. Once your Drupal 9 staging site is ready to replace your current Drupal 7 site, you will submit a Go Live Request. More information will be provided on the Go Live process when onboarding details are communicated.

5. Web Services will coordinate the transition of your Drupal 9 site into production. At this point, your Drupal 9 site will replace your Drupal 7 site.