University Communications, ITS, and the Office of Admission have been preparing new templates for top-level content management system (CMS) web pages (mainly those that can be reached directly from Drake’s homepage), including a new homepage design for www.drake.edu.

The new designs are scheduled to go live on Feb.  4. In preparation for this launch, a publishing freeze will be put in place the prior day to prepare the templates and migrate data. The CMS will still be available to make edits and prepare content as normal, but during this period, changes will not get pushed out to the live site. There will not be any downtime for the public website, only in having updates published.

This will only affect web content that is managed in the Terminal Four (T4) CMS. Other Drake sites that utilize alternate systems such as WordPress will not be effected.

The publishing freeze will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, through 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4.

If you have any questions please contact Jeremy Sievers at jeremy.sievers@drake.edu (x2795).

—Jeremy Sievers, University Communications