Reason Content Management System

Steve Smith at Luther college sent a note to the Reason Discussion group today, letting everyone know that Luther College has moved a Reason powered homepage and admissions site into production!

The Carleton Web Services Group is working on our plans for HighEdWeb 2009. The conference has become a web services group favorite, and…

If you’ve seen the new Admission Site, you may have noticed the new Google Maps-based campus maps we’re using. We created these for a still-ongoing campus map project, but thought they fit well on the Admissions site.

Since the site’s launch we’ve received a few requests for information on the process of creating these maps. I decided to write up a little bit about our process here.

We recently received a request to move an externally hosted site into our local Reason instance. The challenge is that the domain name is supposed to remain outside of the carleton.edu realm. Reason has never supported this natively, though it could be achieved with unpleasant hacks. With Reason 4 Beta 8, this will all change and subdomains and external domains will be fully supported.

Bonus benefit of this work: the reason_package folder will no longer have to be within the web tree.

The Web Services Group at Carleton is making our boring News page into a lively blog! Watch this space for various forms of Reason-related geekery from members of our team. Let the fun begin.