Providing faster, scalable, and more secure hosting solutions for Drupal websites
Stanford Sites, UIT’s primary Drupal content management platform, hosts 3,000+ websites. Stanford Web Services (SWS) released an upgraded version of Stanford Sites in February 2020. To continue receiving security updates and support, websites on Stanford Sites Drupal must advance to the latest version by June 30, 2022. If necessary, owners of complex Drupal 7 sites can plan to complete their upgrade before the software end-of-life in November 2022 by requesting assistance from Stanford Web Services.
Adoption & Website Rebuild Guide: From assessing your current site to rebuilding and launching your new site, this guide gives you the tips and tools you'll need for a successful transition.
Stanford Sites Drupal CMS user guide: Once you start using Stanford Sites, refer to this guide to learn about the new platform, how to build content, launch your website, and more.
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Visit the UIT blog to get an inside look from the Stanford Web Services team as they build and release new features on Stanford Sites.
Stanford’s vast web presence is maintained by many distributed groups across campus and includes a wide variety of applications and hosting platforms, including the legacy AFS platform. AFS is minimally supported and hosts a number of websites created by individuals and other organizations in unsupported, outdated and vulnerable versions of web tools.
If you have a website on web.stanford.edu (AFS) that is no longer needed, you can submit a request with your website information to UIT, and we will delete the website for you.
The best way to start preparing is to spend time reviewing and evaluating the content on your webpages to determine what you want to retain, revise, and remove. Consider the structure of your website (information architecture) and think about ways to improve the organization of pages, and prepare a project timeline, plan and budget. These tips and templates to help you get started are on our Drupal Adoption and Rebuild Guide.
These Drupal projects are two of the eight collective efforts to modernize Stanford's web content management systems.