# \[ANN\] New site launched **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 1, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-launched/80911 "2007-01-01T21:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-launched/80911/1 "2007-01-01T21:44:02Z")
Colleagues and friends, I am happy to announce the new website for Kansas City Kansas Community College, www.kckcc.edu. The site is the culmination of countless hours of planning, testing, and toiling. I’m announcing here because the site is powered by RadiantCMS, of course! I intend to make a detailed post on my personal blog about the site and the process, but here’s a few stats to hold you over: 300+ Pages ~12 snippets 3-4 layouts 6 extensions (yes, we’re running mental!) And much more… We are extremely happy with the ease-of-use and performance that Radiant provides our team (along with a rock-solid server, Litespeed). As time goes on, I intend to polish and release some of the extensions which include LDAP integration and ports of the Mailer and Search behaviors – I’m sure you’re itching for them! I submitted a proposal to RailsConf 2007 about our work. Wish me luck on that! And not to toot my own horn too much, but my design was chosen from 3 alternatives by the students, and thus I was responsible for the majority of the CSS and Photoshop work. As you might be able to tell, I take a lot of my design inspiration from John’s work ;). Here’s to a happy New Year, using Radiant! Sean C. [seancribbs.com](http://seancribbs.com) p.s. During the process of launching the website, the college also changed ISPs. There may be intermittent connectivity problems until the process is complete. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-launched/80911/2 "2007-01-01T23:20:15Z")
Sean, Very nice, very no-nonsense. one question: which pages are truly dynamic? By that I mean not just HTML content statically stored in the DB, just for curiosiy? It’s a good job considering it’s for a public insitution and all the baggage that comes with. Commitee meeting, anyone? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-launched/80911/3 "2007-01-02T00:48:23Z")
Very nice … would be interested in hearing about (if any) snags you might have run into, and also what the backend setup is (using Capistrano?, etc) … good luck w/ RC07 acceptance, nice case study! - Jon ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-launched/80911/4 "2007-01-02T02:08:36Z")
Define ‘truly dynamic’? In some senses all the pages are because they use Radius code. However, I suspect you mean which ones are cached and which ones aren’t. The only pages that are not cached are the Mailer pages. All other pages, whether they generate some content from an integrated extension or contain only static content, are cached. Now, I intend to get to this in more detail in my blog post and potential presentation to RC07, but here’s a basic rundown. Any pages that have a list of staff/faculty names (with email links), title and phone number have LDAP generated content. The course descriptions/syllabi are two pages (one virtual) that is another mini-application. The 2006-2007 academic calendar (and soon to be other pages) is ‘dynamically generated’ from custom-built models. Obviously, the search page uses the ported search behavior (not the big acts\_as\_ferret one, but the simpler one). There are other little touches, like the HR jobs page uses time-expiring content to show open positions, of which there are none at this point. Almost every page that has an email address in it has it generated through a Javascript obfuscator; the generated Javascript code comes from a Radius tag. The news articles and videos use the Archive functionality. I called my boss, but is anyone else having trouble hitting it? Might be the new routing… ugh. Cheers, Sean C.