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Welcoming our new President in McGill's digital spaces

Principal Deep Saini standing in front of the Arts Building on McGill's downtown campus.
Joyce Peralta | 19 May 2023

We're excited to extend a warm McGill Web Services community welcome to our new President, Deep Saini! We look forward to hearing more about President Saini's vision for McGill. After all, we love to be bold! (That's a reference to Deep Saini's words in the McGill Reporter!)

A fresh start

In preparation for President Saini's arrival in April, we worked with the Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor to launch a revamped, streamlined version of the OPVC website. If you're a regular visitor to the site, you might have noticed the new messages already shared by President Saini. Other than that, you might not have noticed any drastic changes...but the new site is actually very different from the previous version.

Our revamp project included a thorough site content audit which allowed us to reduce site content significantly.

Through the audit we identified much of the content (some of which was decades old) could be migrated to archival formats. The result is a new iteration of our Office of the Principal website with 90% less content - from 500 pieces of content (nodes) to about 50!

Benefits of reducing site content

  • Increases the visibility of President's Saini's strategic messaging
  • Easier to maintain
  • Facilitates upcoming changes to site and content management processes:
    • Translation requirements
    • Drupal 9 upgrade

Revamped homepage

Current layout

Screenshot of the new Office of the Principal site

Previous layout

Screenshot of the old Office of the Principal site

Follow Principal Saini online

In addition to the Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor website, you can also keep up with news and announcements shared by Principal Saini on social media.

Site content auditing resources

Looking to reduce clutter on your website and make your web management process more efficient? Check out our Web Services resources below:

And here's a few more links you might find interesting:

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