THE NEW USWBSI WEBSITE

The US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) maintains a web site (http://www.scabusa.org) that offers information and services in support of the USWBSI’s mission. This year the site was completely rebuilt using the Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) content management system (CMS). Previously, the site was run using the Xoops (http://xoops.org/) CMS. Unfortunately, several of the modules that were used to provide services through Xoops were no longer being updated, and presented security and stability threats. The Drupal CMS was chosen because of its extensive support, vast number of application modules, and improved content management and administrative interfaces. The new site was designed to provide all of the services previously available with Xoops plus some additional services such as a jobs posting board and a full featured image gallery. More services are expected to be offered in the future along with user interface enhancements.