{"id":82019,"date":"2017-12-11T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=82019"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:54","slug":"new-website-eur-safer-and-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/12\/11\/new-website-eur-safer-and-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"New website EUR ‘safer and more accessible’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Better accessible on mobile, tablet and for visually impaired people, more structured information and hopefully safer. <\/span>However, some information has been removed from the new website of the Erasmus University, which is officially presented on Monday 11 December.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The site is officially live from 10.00 am. <\/span>According to Geke Koppenol of the project team, the migration has been succesfully completed. <\/span>\u201cThere may be some hyperlinks missing here and there, or some typing errors. <\/span>All departments of the university are working hard on this today. Besides those minor issues<\/span>, everything should work properly. \u201cIf people still have problems loading the site, Koppenol recommends refreshing the page with CTRL-F5.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hack<\/h3>

That the new website is safer than the previous one is a prerequisite. <\/span>The old one was hacked in November 2016, when the hackers had access to personal data of 17,000 people. <\/span>That this hack was possible was mainly due to the use of an outdated version of the content management system Typo3<\/em>. <\/span>That is now being replaced by Drupal<\/em>, a system that should be easier to keep up-to-date.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another safety measure taken is that a lot of information is simply no longer stored on the public site. On<\/span> the old site, completed forms were stored on the public web server for an indefinite period of time. Amongst these forms <\/span>were requests for interviews with student psychologists, for example. <\/span>This is no longer happening, so this sensitive information can no longer be hacked. <\/span>Information pages that are only relevant for employees and students have been moved to the MyEUR intranet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The new EUR.nl design.<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Wrapper<\/h3>

To promote the launch of the new site, staff and students were offered a chocolate bar on Monday. <\/span>In one of the bars there is a golden wrapper. <\/span>That wrapper does not give the finder a trip to the chocolate factory, but a brand new mobile phone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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