So we recently our whole intranet from one server to a few weeks ago and we came across an interesting issue where folks weren’t able to view a drop down menu. Now, it was working on chrome properly, but because most people use IE as their default, we had to figure out a way to make this happen and turns out, it was a compatibility issue. The way the intranet was set up seems like it was using old meta tags (IE7). So within compatibility mode, the browser is using IE 7 version when in actuality, the users have updated browsers which would be IE 11….so an interesting fix to…

So, I’m here on a Friday night, past the regular 9 to 5 time frame awaiting my turn to do my testing of the intranet sites that I manage here at the Secretariat. I handle the EOHHS pages along with making changes for Tewksbury Hospital, the Department of Health, and also work along side MassHealth and the Department of Developmental Services, and the Department of Mental Health! I service all these agencies when requests come in to either change and create content. So the reason why we’re even moving these files over is because of a security issue with the way the current site is set up on the server…

I manage the content for Health and Human Services and from time to time, I hear from my colleagues from the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security on ways to improve our site. Today, I got a chance to sit down with Fiona who works on website improvement, content, best practices, etc. It’s always nice to speak with her because we get chat about new technology that is either happening in the Commonwealth but also outside of the Commonwealth. I also like speaking with her because it gives me time to give my feedback on the system, how the pages are set up, and also what I’ve been hearing…

In the past few months, I’ve been busy working on commission websites. Had to sit down with my colleagues and let them know what was possible within the system and since I was told a few were on the horizon, I wanted to have a structure in place so that I could just apply it to all the commissions that would be coming up. I was told of all the content that they would like to have on there. It was short, simple, and to the point where they would have information about the statute, commission members, and also needed to have a section where they could add the materials…

So it finally happened! We successfully moved over all the Executive Office of Health and Human Services web pages. Yesterday marked the day where all legacy pages, those that were on a content management system called “Percussion” have now been moved over to the new content management system we are currently operating on, Drupal! It surely wasn’t an easy task, so much communication and planning went into this task. I was actually responsible for making sure everyone stayed the course to get their pages mulled over correctly and on top of that, I had to determine even for our own Secretariat what information would be useful to migrate over. It…