18 Jun 2009

University of Chicago Law School Site Launch

Evan Clossin

Content Editor, Documentation, and Support

Flowers are in full bloom, pools are open, ice cream trucks are sending children into fits of hysteria. In this spirit of rebirth and renewal, Palantir is proud to announce the launch of the University of Chicago Law School Web site. Palantir had previously redeveloped the UC Law Web site in 2006 with award-winning results. This time around Palantir built their site in Drupal 6, with a design by Rogue Element. It features handy Drupal modules like Menu Node API and Menu Node Edit, both created and maintained by Palantir's Ken Rickard. Stop by today and check out the University of Chicago Law School's new online experience.

Comments

Minor correction!

The original version of this post erroneously listed a module that was not in fact used on the University of Chicago Law School site. We've updated it to list two of the modules that were created by Palantir for this project and contributed back to the community: Menu Node API and Menu Node Edit.

Posted by George DeMet on 18 Jun 2009

Faculty Profiles

Thanks for the write up. I really like the layout of the site. Those two modules are exactly what I have been looking for, so thanks for that too.

One question though. Did you use the core Profile module to set up the Faculty profiles or is that "Content Profile" or something custom?

Posted by 2ndMile (not verified) on 19 Jun 2009

Faculty nodes

The faculty pages are a CCK node type (faculty) with some custom handling code that registers certain CCK fields as separate page callbacks.

In essence, you declare that "for this field, create a page at node/%/content/FIELD_NAME". In the case of this site, that menu callback is a MENU_CALLBACK, and the links are loaded into the right rail using node theming.

See, for instance, http://www.law.uchicago.edu/node/493/cv, which displays the CCK field 'field_faculty_cv'.

The code could be abstracted and released, given some time to work on it.

Posted by Ken Rickard on 19 Jun 2009

I'd use it!

Thanks Ken. If you released it I would surely use it.

I hope you received my email thanking you for the Menu Node API and Menu Node Edit Modules!

Thanks again.

Posted by 2ndMile (not verified) on 19 Jun 2009