What's going on?

The WebSPACE Project

The WebSPACE project has the goal of providing one-to-one portal services for prospective students, current students, faculty, staff and alumni, and the continuing development of Web transactional services for the community. It began with the launch of a new look and feel for the St. Thomas Web site. The vision to expand this to all constituents, and provide increasing functionality over time, will be described as project WebSPACE (infraStructure, Portal, And Content Experience). Visit our Project Showcase to learn more about WebSPACE.

Collage at UST

Collage, a software product from a company called Serena, is an end-to-end web content management solution, providing full asset management, user and task management, content contribution, and deployment features.

The adoption of Serena Collage as the university's web management tool allows academic and administrative units within the univeristy to take ownership of their own web content, ensuring accurate information to their audience.

The ability in Collage to create standard university templates provides our audience with a consistent look, feel, identity, and provides for easy and consistent site navigation.

The Journey

The installment of Collage as the University's web content management system was one piece of the IRT WebSPACE project's goal of providing ubiquitous information access, personalizing resources, simplifying process and building community. 

Work continues on redesigning web sites from our old environment into the new Collage environment, under an IRT project-managed process. This work has proceeded in phases, with academic sites being re-designed first, followed by student-service sites and then administrative sites.

Feedback from those who have already migrated has been positive, with clients saying Collage is easy to use and the process has been beneficial for their necessary web site reorganization.