University of Michigan: a half-million visitors. Information within reach
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United States
- Platform
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Drupal · DXPR Builder
The outcome:
more time for programs,
less time producing pages.
For gardens welcoming more than half a million visitors a year, useful web content is part of the visit. Staff need to keep events, learning and practical details easy to find.
525K+
Visitors. One place to plan a visit.
Gardens, events and learning opportunities for a half-million annual visitors.
4×
Faster event-page production.
Garden and program staff prepare seasonal events using a familiar, repeatable page structure.
Illustrative estimate.
80%
Less routine layout work for IT.
Content owners handle everyday page composition, freeing IT for platform maintenance and improvements.
Illustrative estimate.
The visitor’s experience starts before they arrive.
A family planning a visit and an educator planning a trip need different answers.
Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum support public visits, teaching, research and volunteering. Seasonal events sit alongside practical information that needs to stay useful throughout the year.
Program staff know what is happening, but publishing it can add a separate layer of coordination. Every repeated layout request takes time away from preparing the event or helping its audience.
Make the website as helpful as the people behind the programs.
Give program staff
a clearer path to publishing.
DXPR lets Drupal editors assemble an event or learning page around the details visitors need. Existing layouts provide places for the description, imagery, dates and next step.
Staff can adapt the page for a new season or program and preview it before publication. IT continues to maintain the university platform while content owners keep the visitor information current.
The gardens’ homepage, educator resources and events listing show the different needs of its visitors.
A useful page helps someone plan a visit, join a program or discover a new interest. Staff time belongs in making those experiences possible.
Keep visitor information in the hands of your team.
Bring an event or program page. See how its content owners could maintain it visually inside Drupal.