On March 31, 2024, campus OIT retired the Cascade 7 (C7) Content Management System, and all C7 sites were set to “sunset” status (read-only, no edits possible). Once C7 sites are migrated, they will be decommissioned.
We have partnered with vendors to help review, update and migrate content from existing C7 department websites to new UCI School of Medicine Drupal platform microsites. Below are the statuses of both basic science and clinical department website migrations.
Basic Science Department Websites
- Anatomy & Neurobiology: Migration Completed
- Biological Chemistry: Migration Completed
- Microbiology & Molecular Genetics: Migration Completed
- Physiology & Biophysics: Migration Completed
Clinical Department Websites
- Dermatology: Migration Completed
- Emergency Medicine: In Progress
- Family Medicine: Migration Completed
- Medicine: Migration Completed
- Neurological Surgery: Migration Completed
- Neurology: In Progress
- Obstetrics & Gynecology: In Progress
- Otolaryngology: Migration Completed
- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: Migration Completed
- Pediatrics: Migration Completed
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: In Progress
- Psychiatry & Human Behavior: Migration Completed
- Surgery: Migration Completed
Other School of Medicine Sites
There were approximately 15 center, institute or program sites also previously hosted on C7. The Digital Communications team has contacted all of these sites' stakeholders and either completed website migrations or is in progress on a migration plan.
Last updated: March 25, 2025
Clinical Department Sites
- Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Plastic Surgery
- Radiological Sciences
- Urology
Other School of Medicine Sites
Over 100 School of Medicine-related vendor-managed sites must be reviewed before determining a migration plan.
Stay tuned... more information is coming soon!
Revitalize and migrate school websites into a unified, modern, and visually appealing web platform. Departments, programs, centers, institutes and lab websites using UCI's Cascade 7 CMS as their primary active website will be given priority, as the campus decommissioned the Cascade 7 platform in March 2024.
Stakeholders will work with the School of Medicine Digital Communications Team and website content vendors to audit the existing website structure and content, make revisions and build new websites.
- Build new websites for school websites.
- Basic science and clinical department microsites will be built on the Drupal CMS within the UCI School of Medicine website.
- Programs, centers, institutes, lab websites, etc., will be evaluated and built on the Drupal CMS or a UCI Sites WordPress website.
- Stakeholders will work with the School of Medicine Digital Communications Team and vendor to:
- Conduct a current site audit.
- Define their site goals and objectives.
- Develop a site map that outlines the main sections, subpages and their relationships.
- Update, develop and refine content for the website.
- Plan for a smooth migration of content from the old site to the new site (i.e., maintain content on the old site while building the new site).
- Transform the site map and content into a functional website using the existing Drupal or WordPress CMS theme and features.
- Coordinate the launch of the new site and redirect/decommission of the old site.
- Existing Cascade 7 websites will be given migration priority. Specific dates will be integrated into a schedule based on available resources.
- Provide project management templates and repeatable processes to ensure timely and transparent transitions.
- Help source and incorporate multimedia (images and video) to make the website more engaging and informative.
- Design and build pre-configured website templates with sample pages ready to be populated with content.
- Guide stakeholders to refine and adapt their website copy to ensure it's engaging and effective in the online environment. The Digital Communications team and vendor will:
- Help stakeholders to understand their audience.
- Review, revise, distill and streamline their content.
- Enhance clarity and readability.
- Add Calls to Actions (CTAs).
- Ensure consistency and brand voice.
- Proofread.
- Address bugs that are identified during the build and quality assurance (QA) phases of the site migrations.
- Coordinate with UCI Health and UCI IT departments to decommission old websites.
- Content editor training for stakeholders (TBD)
- Designing and developing new website features or functionality.
- Writing new copy without input from the stakeholder. Stakeholder input is encouraged to ensure the new site reflects updates and changes relevant to your department. If stakeholders do not collaborate on writing new copy, content from the old website will be migrated to the new platform.
- Building non-Drupal or UCI Sites WordPress stand-alone websites. The School of Medicine website design and development phase is complete. Once all websites are migrated, there will be an opportunity to explore creating new designs and features identified during this project.
- Creating web-accessible attachments, such as PDFs, for website use.
- Creating new videos to showcase on the website.
Website Development
- Pre-configured site templates with sample pages ready to be edited.
- A functional, populated website for each stakeholder that utilizes the existing Drupal or UCI Sites WordPress CMS theme and features and aligns with UCI branding guidelines, giving the website a cohesive and modern look and feel.
Content Integration
- Populating the new websites with content and multi-media assets.
Quality Assurance
- Review content completeness, accuracy, spelling, grammar and UCOP accessibility standards.
- Test for broken links.
Deployment
- Schedule a deployment date.
- Coordinate with UCI Health and Campus IT teams to properly redirect and decommission old sites.
Training (In progress – not yet available)
- Training sessions for stakeholders who want to edit content on their websites.
- Office hours.
- Training videos.
- Written documentation.
- School of Medicine Basic Science Departments, Clinical Departments, Programs, Centers, Institutes, Labs, Enterprise Units:
- CAOs
- Department Chairs
- Division Chiefs
- MSOs
- Principal Investigators
- Program/Fellowship Directors
- Practice Managers
- Unit staff members assigned to work on the website content
- Office of the Dean
- School of Medicine digital communications team
- Vendor subcontractors
- UCI Health Marketing team
- OIT and UCIH IT teams