Jim Thaxton, Senior Developer
The construction of a new website or accommodating new features and functionality of an existing website often requires replacing the existing content management system (CMS). For the Illinois Humanities Council, integrating with Raiser's Edge client relationship management and expanding their social networking with public forums brought us to Drupal, an open source CMS. One major challenge, which all new sites must confront, is migrating from the existing CMS to the new one. This whitepaper explores the steps taken to migrate to Drupal.