Completed Drupal site or project URL: http://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (GU-Q) hosts a dual language, Arabic and English website with 1800+ indexed pages and 800+ publications on the website. Their previous Keybridge Systems Cold Fusion based website suffered from declining performance, lagging speed and an obsolete architecture, on an outdated back-end that was difficult to manage and update. This provided for an ineffective and poor quality user experience and it created difficulties for site editors and administrators.

After a full website audit, it was determined that a complete redevelopment and restructuring of the website was appropriate for the future needs of the campus. GU-Q partnered with Vardot for the complete rebuild of their website from scratch, starting with a remodel of the front-end design in accordance with Georgetown University brand guidelines, a restructuring of the information architecture and a complete back-end rebuild on Drupal CMS.

Key modules/theme/distribution used: Varbase: Drupal Bundled with Necessities | by VardotVarbase EditorPanelizerFeedssimpleSAMLphp AuthenticationApache Solr SearchDomain AccessDisplay SuiteWorkbenchInternationalizationEntity TranslationMenu blockFieldable Panels Panes (FPP)Bibliography ModuleOrganizations involved: VardotTeam members: Mohammed J. RazemIsraaalaa abbadmqannehjosebcRajabNatshahm.abdulqader