February 29th, 2008
Latin America university moves to Joomla!
After one year of research, the moves to Joomla! 1.5.
229 courses in 40 different places, five thousand teachers and more than 56 thousand students make the USP – Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo University) in Brazil is the number one in Latin America and one of the 100 most important in the world. Since 1997 in the Internet, the university conduct a research on the last year with the visitors of USP Portal (www.usp.br) about changes and new features on this gate with intent to support the desires and requests of national and international users. The result was a set of new websites with a new navigation system, news and events channels, maps, informations to foreigners in four different languages and a new design.
To support the enormous requests demands, this new version was developed with the free CMS Joomla!, that include easy ways to input and manage content with performance and stability. Supporting the highest standarts, the USP Portal Council offers to the general visitors access about all scientific, cultural and technological production of the university and shows-off the institution nationally and internationally.
With the expertise of an external adviser, this project demanded hundred hours of the USP Online staff, the department with the responsibility over the portal to create a new graphic project. They researched components and extensions, tools and the migration of old data to the new format. After much study of free software CMS tools, the university choose the CMS Joomla! because it has an easy integration of information, low maintainment needs and an easy-to-use interface - basic points needed to manage a big universe of informations like this.
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