New CBTE website
We’ve just finished the first major changes to the CBTE website since it was launched in 2005. The old site was still a pretty good, but it was apparent that the Centre needed the ability to update and add their own copy to cut overheads.
To do this we’ve built a new site in WordPress. WordPress is probably the simplest-to-use content management system available, so it should enable staff to develop the site, keeping it up to date with its members’ research, and post useful information about seminars and so on.
While WordPress is an excellent tool for getting material online, it is not a full CMS. The CBTE, however, has a very extensive research portfolio, which needed to be moved into the new site. To cope with this requirement, we developed a simple plugin to produce sensible multi-layered menu structure for the site. The menu structure can cope with sites of a couple of hundred pages, in an easily navigable fashion, providing ample scope for the CBTE’s research.
The Centre for Biotechnology and Tissue Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
