ITS is proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of the UT Drupal Kit. The Drupal Kit is UT Austin’s custom Drupal distribution, which “aims to simplify development of websites on campus, standardize University brand templates, and improve accessibility compliance while allowing developers to retain control over customization.”
This exciting new release contains the first iteration of a Drupal theme, called “Forty Acres,” which implements the new UT Austin branding. The Drupal Kit also now includes a custom module called “Page Builder,” which provides page templates, flexible content widgets, and a drag-and-drop layout editor, all of which together will allow site owners to create pages that match the designs created by University Communications and Springbox as part of the Digital Experience project.
Extensive documentation aimed at both developers and site builders, including eight video tutorials, is available on the new UT Drupal Kit documentation wiki.
This release and the accompanying documentation, along with the UTLogin module for Drupal released earlier this year, represent the full realization of the original goals of the Drupal Foundation Project:
[A]n updated, tested and deployable version of Drupal; related Drupal modules; a university-branded theme; and the documentation necessary to use, support and maintain the distribution package.
We are very excited to share this work with the community, and look forward to seeing what people do with it! Stay tuned to this blog for more information about the Drupal Kit and other upcoming Drupal services from ITS.
There will be an FYI presentation about UT Drupal Kit 2.0 on December 9 at 10:30am in POB 2.402. More information is available on the FYI website.