University for tourism just launched with Drupal! A bilingual site to study in Costa Rica

ticomagnate - October 31, 2008 - 03:56

Hello everyone,

This is my first post. I am in charge of changing the website for the Universidad del Turismo, (University for Tourism, UTUR). Our organization has limited resources and staff to support a big website. However I saw the opportunity of using Drupal to let professors and students to share their thoughts and projects by using blogs and forums inside our site. We are currently looking forward to compete in the high level among universities in Costa Rica, in design and functionality in our site www.utur.ac.cr
The front page is using Drupal version 6.4
Among the modules set are:
-Rotor Banner
-front page settings
-FCKeditor
-FlashVideo Settings
-IMCE
-Image toolkit
-Imediasee Flash Video Streaming
-Mollom
-PicLens
-Printer-friendly pages
-Terms of Use

The site works also with the following scripts installed before Drupal
-Coppermine Photo Gallery
-b2evolution
-Joomla (not shown public)
-Mambo (not shown public)
-PHPlist
-Noahs Classifieds
-Moodle (not being used)
-Open-Realty (not shown to public)

Please let us know about new suggestions to improve our site, and to hire new outsourcing experts in Drupal to reach our goal of outstanding among other universities.
The structure of the site is under review. Over the last 3 years the site has been left behind by low quality design from third party small companies in Costa Rica, which did not fit our expectations.
I am trying to recover the good aspects of the past jobs done in design, but now students or visitors are complaining about the front page of the site made in Drupal. We need to use the Spanish version and get some advise on how to update it in Spanish.
We are urged to change the Theme by one oriented to high education, designed specially for the University for Tourism in Costa Rica.

You are welcome to visit our country and exchange links with our site.

Thanks in advance for all.

 
 

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