为什么Drupal在高等教育机构中独领风骚
Drupal web technology is increasingly being adopted across the globe and is currently in use by massive organizations including The White House, McDonald’s, Twitter, IKEA and many more*. We can assume that big guys like these have taken the time to vet it. The reasons to choose Drupal are literally endless: pick n' choose modules, an army of developers contributing worldwide, cost effectiveness, always evolving, etc, etc. There’s no doubt why progressive institutions in higher education wouldn’t want the same. In fact, schools such as Harvard and MIT have been leading the charge with Drupal for over seven years.
在全球范围内，Drupal网站开发技术被越来越多的采用，目前已经有大量的机构应用Drupal技术建设网站，包括美国白宫，麦当劳，推特，宜家等。我们可以猜测这些机构的负责人花时间来调查这个，选择Drupal的原因是各种各样的：N多选择的模块，全世界范围内开发者的贡献，成本效率，一直不断的在发展等等。毫无疑问，这些都不是高校的积极进取的机构想要的。实际上，象哈佛和麻省理工这样的学校已经使用Drupal长达7年之久。
The Drupal content management system is successful in the higher education space because it's been able to address key pain points that come along with managing and maintaining complex sites with hundreds of different "contributors" from various departments and schools. Managing a university's entire web presence, maintaining and implementing a current content strategy, and keeping compliant with campus-wide standards and accessibility guidelines isn't easy. Thankfully, Drupal addresses these challenges and is quickly becoming the top choice for higher education websites.
Drupal内容管理系统在高教领域是成功的，因为它可以很好地解决管理和维护复杂站点所带来的挑战，要知道构建这些站点的都是来自于不同院系和学院的“贡献者”，他们数以百计。管理一所大学的所有网站，维持和实现当前的内容策略，确保符合校园标准和访问原则并不是件容易的事情。值得庆幸的是，Drupal解决了这些挑战，并迅速成为高教网站的首选。Quick facts about Drupal in higher education:
快速了解一下Drupal在高校中的事实：
Harvard, MIT, and every Ivy League school currently uses Drupal
哈佛(Harvard),麻省理工(MIT),和常春藤联盟学校当前正在使用Drupal。71 out of the top 100 universities use Drupal
世界顶尖的前100所大学当中就有71所大学使用Drupal。28% of all sites use Drupal
所有教育类机构网站28%使用Drupal。In 2006, ImageX made the decision to develop exclusively with Open Source technology, particularly Drupal. With one of our key markets being higher education, it's really exciting to see the impact Drupal has had with all our clients, and even more so with the education sector as a whole. We're huge fans of the education sector because it's filled with brilliant people with great ideas. Unfortunately, it's also filled with bad websites. With the power of Drupal, we are here to change that.
在2006年，ImageX技术团队（）决定采用开源技术独立开发，特别是采用Drupal。由于高等教育是我们的一个主要的市场，令人激动的看到Drupal给所有我们的客户已经产生了影响，尤其是教育部门。Luckily, school’s are beginning to recognize this and more and more are making the switch to Drupal as their CMS.
幸运的是，学校也开始认识到了这一点，越来越多地将他们的CMS（内容管理系统）改成Drupal。We develop and design in Drupal because it makes it easier for schools to create and maintain websites that are customized to their institution. We want you to be able to use your time to focus on the important task of engaging, enrolling and retaining students. By working with schools including Indiana State University, Portland State University, Stanford, Arizona State University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and the University of British Columbia, ImageX built a series of Drupal modules with a workflow specifically designed for higher education. We came to understand the obstacles that school’s face as well as the eagerness to propel into the future so we created a website accelerator package that we employ with each higher ed implementation.
我们为Drupal做开发和设计，是为了可以让学校更容易按照自身的需求来建站以及后期维护。我们希望您能花时间在以下重要任务上：宣讲、招募和保留学生们加入Drupal社区。通过与印第安纳州立大学、波特兰州立大学、斯坦福大学、亚利桑那州立大学、昆特仑理工大学及英属哥伦比亚大学等学校合作，ImageX 创建了一系列专为高等教育设计的Drupal模块。我们了解学校所面临的困难以及急于推进的心理，因此我们创建了网站加速包，并在每个高等教育的案例中布署。With Drupal, schools can attain big cost savings and time efficiencies while making their (web) lives easier. Drupal is backed by a community of over 600,000 users and developers worldwide, who collaborate and work daily to ensure that the software is super easy to use, that it's always up to date and that it's always evolving as fast as the web is.
使用Drupal，学校在节省大量成本和时间的同时也更加轻松。Drupal由一个全球超过60万用户和开发者社区支持，他们天天相互协作，以确保该软件非常容易使用。它总是不断更新，并象网站技术一样快速发展。Here's a few instances why Drupal and ImageX's accelerator package are appealing for higher education websites:
这里有些例子，来说明为什么Drupal和ImageX的加速包对高教网站是有吸引力的：。Content Generation:
内容生成If you are in charge of generating content, you don't have to be a web expert. Drupal has a user-friendly interface that easily allows administrators to upload content, manage any media and even spin up a brand new additional site in minutes. Drupal at its core is a CMS - updating and creating new content is what it's built to do.
如果您负责内容生成，您无须成为一个网站专家。Drupal友好的用户界面可以很方便地让管理员上传内容、管理媒体甚至在几分钟内让一个全新的网站正常运转。Drupal的核心就是一个CMS-用于创建和更新内容。Reusable Content (Content Syndication):
内容再利用（内容聚合）Being able to create and edit content is one thing, but reusing content and disseminating it across different department and sub sites is another. With this key module for content sharing, creating and editing content that can be published and shared throughout different sections of the institutions site is simple. You can share specific news, events, media and information with any site within your network. You also get access to a library of already generated content.
便利的创建编辑是一方面，但是能将所创建的内容在各各不同部门和站点之间重复利用就是另一方面了。利用这个内容分享的核心模块，所创建的和编辑过的内容能够方便的这个体系的不同地方分享。你可以利用你的网络分享不同新闻，事件，娱乐，信息。你同样可以去获取这些已经生成的内容。Branding & Design:
品牌&设计Staying on brand, being compliant with campus-wide standards and having the ability to adapt quickly has proved to be a hassle with other proprietary web platforms. With this accelerator in place, we're able to easily create awesome looking design templates that make for a consistent user experience across all of the schools' websites. But, there's also our Branding Dashboard that allows for unique customization so department sites can showcase their personality without straying too far from the brand guidelines.
在品牌上，满足符合大学网站标准，同时能够快速调整对于其他私人网站平台来说十分困难。我们所有的条件却能让我们轻松地有利于所有学校使用的做出漂亮的模板。但是我们的品牌仪表同样允某些网站不过分远离我们标准的个性展现。Mobile & Accessibility:
移动&便利Once you have your website, you’ll want it to perform well too. We’ve ensured that we include features that increase user interaction. Feel confident knowing that every article you've created will be Search Engine Optimized from the start with meta-tags, page titles, descriptions and more. ImageX is an accessibility ambassador so we ensure our accelerators will always fulfill the promise of it being truly a ‘world wide web’ for everyone, including those with disabilities. Also, more students are viewing school websites from their phone or tablet than their personal computer, so we always design ‘mobile first’, and Drupal makes that process a breeze. This means that your site is going to look just as good on a small screen as it does on a laptop without having to develop a separate mobile site.
一旦你拥有一个网站，你同样希望它能良好运行。我们确定我们的产品有良好的交互性这个特色。并确信您所创建的每篇文章都会根据主要标签，文章名称，描述以及更多方面进行搜索优化。IMAGEX是我们的传播大师，它能确保我们的油门能够真正的满足实现让每个人方便享用的网站这的诺言，这其中还包括那些残疾人。同样学生能够利用他们的手机和平板电脑来浏览我们的网站。因此我们以移动端开发为第一位。当让这对drupal来说是小菜一碟。这意味着您的网站在小屏幕和笔记本电脑上表现得同样好，而无需另行开发一个移动网站。It’s more clear now than ever that Drupal will save you a ton of headaches down the road, save you some money, keep you from being another "bad website", and show that your school values its diversity but stands together unified.
毫无疑问Drupal将您从大量令人头痛的麻烦中解放出来，为您省了钱，让您的站点不再成为另一个“坏站点”，同时还能展示您学校的多样化并能将其统一起来。With the web evolving as fast as it does today, schools now have access to software like Drupal and specialized higher ed web development firms like ImageX. And what a relief! Imagine if we still had to look at websites like this?...
随着当前网站技术的快速发展，学校现在可以使用象Drupal这样的软件以及象ImageX这样专业的高教网站开发公司，这是件多么令人愉快的事！想象一下，如果我们还不得不去看象这样的网站？.....ImageX is an award winning open source web design and development firm with offices in Vancouver, BC and Los Angeles, CA. If you'd like to learn more about ImageX and our higher ed services, contact us and get started today.
ImageX是一个获奖的开源网站设计和开发公司，办公室地点在加拿大温哥华和加州洛杉矶。如果您想要了解ImageX以及高等教育的相关服务，请现在就联系我们。
