Drupal Website Hosting

Drupal is OSU's solution to website hosting. CWS uses custom themes created for OSU to build websites and we even help manage the content.

Services

The majority of Drupal services are free for OSU departments and organizations. Included are:

Standard OSU Drupal themes
Hosting and typical address naming*
Training
Feature development* (examples: a blog, a specially formatted image gallery)

* Special address naming like food.oregonstate.edu costs extra. Some features may need to be developed for a fee, particularly if a feature is developed solely for your site and not shared with the OSU Drupal community. Please contact us with any questions.

Training

Classes
CWS offers hands on classes for staff, faculty and students working on OSU websites. This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about Drupal and ask questions.
Documentation & Help
- Drupal Deep Dive provides step-by-step instructions on some of the common Drupal tasks.
- The Drupal FAQ section has answers to more common questions.
- Submit a help ticket or, even better, contact the Drupal support list if you don't find the answer you were looking for.

Request a Website

We will verify all requests for new OSU websites with the appropriate authority, so please inform them of your request beforehand. Additional guidance is available on the site request form.

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CWS Drupal

We’re going to DrupalCon

May 17, 2013

At least 12 of us from OSU will be at DrupalCon next week in Portland. This is an exciting opportunity for us to connect with people from all over the world who are involved with Drupal. This year DrupalCon is offering a new track for Government, Non-Profit, and Education. For the first time at DrupalCon… Continue reading → Read full story.

Our Groups are Organic

Apr 29, 2013

As we looked at how we would upgrade all of our Drupal 6 sites to Drupal 7 we realized we had a big problem. Big as in over a thousand individual Drupal sites. We have become the victim of our own success in that we made it too easy to create new Drupal sites whenever… Continue reading → Read full story.

ASOSU Elects to Use Drupal!

Apr 19, 2013

It all started with a simple question, “Can CWS help us build a website that our student body can use to vote with in our April elections?” The question, posed by ASOSU Organizing Coordinator, Drew Desilet, came to CWS in mid-February. “When it came time to look at building or buying a new voting… Continue reading → Read full story.

Say Hello to Doug Fir

Apr 8, 2013

CWS is happy to present Doug Fir, the latest theme in the OSU Drupal 6 distribution. Designed by WebComm and engineered by Central Web Services, Doug Fir has been developed similarly to OSU Standard in regards to configurable theme options, integration with Google Analytics, and layout regions, but it sports a fresh, clean look which… Continue reading → Read full story.

Let’s Talk Drupal 7

Mar 12, 2013

So let’s talk Drupal 7, and some bits and bytes about Drupal in general. Central Web Services maintains a central Drupal installation. Like any piece of software, it has multiple versions. Drupal 5, 6, 7, and 8 which is in development. The CWS stable version is Drupal 6. Drupal 5 is no longer supported. Right… Continue reading → Read full story.