Murray Woodman

Murray is a co-founder and the Managing Director at Morpht.

Projects

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AER embarked on a transformation journey, where Morpht rolled outa rigorous approach that encompassed extensive discovery phases, detailed content modelling, and the migration of numerous data sources.
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Morpht was approached by the Department of Defence to look at overhauling its Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) website. We refocused the design and content around audience needs and pain points.
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Morpht supported the Department of Health and Aged Care with a contemporary new website for World AIDS Day, in record time for World AIDS Day 2023. Providing a contemporary look and feel with improved content models and site search.
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Morpht was able to provide IPEA with a new website on the GovCMS SaaS platform, upgraded to Drupal 9 and allow site editors to import all reporting data without the need of external help. The site also has a greatly improved page speed and a new design and interface which maximises the findability of Parliamentarian expense reports.
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The National Immunisation Catch-up Calculator generates vaccination schedules based on a number of factors, including age, location, medical at-risk conditions and previous vaccination history.
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An optimized information architecture, a refreshed contemporary design, and improved resource management were all delivered in record time to prepare the site for a national awareness raising and behavioural campaign, and to support the wider work of the National Office for Child Safety (NOCS).
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Morpht improved the user experience for the Australian Human Rights Commission's site through interest and behaviour-driven personalisation.
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The TGA are now celebrating a brand new site on GovCMS. With a contemporary look and feel underpinned by consistent structures and familiar patterns, this site is now the foundation for the next stage of the digital transformation the TGA is undergoing.
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Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is a not-for-profit community legal centre dedicated to increasing access to justice and advancing human rights. Morpht supported it by rebuilding their site in Drupal 9 with a new design and improved content models and editor tools.
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The CGC website is based on Convivial for GovCMS and includes document containers and file collections; as well as an interactive map of Australia.
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Morpht re-architected 1,200 pages and more than 6,000 publications, factsheet and forms into 9 site sections and improved their discoverability with faceted searches.
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We migrated more than 400 green energy providers to create a ‘locate a generator near you’ map, a highly responsive calculator that delivers immediate responses as you enter data and a super-charged business directory search showcasing businesses and highlighting their products.
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Morpht, in conjunction with Folk, has delivered the Australian Immunisation Handbook for the Department of Health, improving information access for health professionals across Australia.
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The NSW Food Authority engaged Morpht to redevelop and refresh the design of its website and migrate the content from TRIM WCMS to GovCMS.
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ASQA is the national regulator for Australia’s vocational education and training sector and seeks to ensure quality in the sector through the regulation of courses, training and providers.
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The GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter theme ships with GovCMS8 distribution and is enabled when new sites are spun up. It has been designed to implement the Design System and to provide editors with a flexible system to build attractive pages.
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Morpht upgraded the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, making it responsive and porting across custom functionality from the legacy site.
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A case study into the work Morpht has done for Nova Entertainment, building and supporting their Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 web platforms.
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The Drupal Paragraphs module enables flexible, component-driven page building. Morpht, a pioneer since 2015, showcases its features and innovative approaches, demonstrating the module's powerful potential.
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A case study into the Drupal 7 webssite for Easy Street.
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A case study into the Wild Women On Top Drupal 7 website.

Articles

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A guide to setting up a simple map solution on GovCMS SaaS.
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A guide on how to set up content workflows on GovCMS SaaS to improve the quality and security of content.
GovCMS How to: Content workflow
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A guide on how to configure GovCMS SaaS to avoid the creation of outdated, forgotten files which may lead to erroneous content being bookmarked and served.
GovCMS How to series: Avoid zombie files
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A guide on how to set up content migrations on GovCMS SaaS where the requirements fall outside what is usually handled by the Migrate module.
GovCMS How to: When Migrate isn’t enough
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A guide on how to structure and present a site which contains many sub sections which need to be themed different on GovCMS SaaS.
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A guide on how to manage files on GovCMS SaaS where the files need to be hidden from the public until a specific time.
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An introduction to a series of “how to" guides for common but tricky requirements on GovCMS SaaS, covering the implementation for various scenarios.
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What’s new in Drupal 11 and Morpht’s take on it.
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The Drupal Starshot initiative will lead to many benefits including a better experience for site builders, more rapid site development and also a boost for the Drupal user base and community.
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Search is a core competency of most websites, however, so often it doesn’t perform the way users desire. It’s possible to get good results from Search API in Drupal with a rigorous approach and a bit of fine tuning.
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Morpht had a great time at DrupalSouth Sydney 2024! As always, it was an amazing event connecting, collaborating and learning with the Drupal community.
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We can't believe the year is nearly over and it's time for the end of year wrap up! Morpht would like to send a BIG thank you to all of our clients, colleagues and friends we have worked and collaborated with throughout 2023.
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Your questions answered from the 'Are you talking to me? Personalisation on the TGA website' presented at GovCMS Mega Meetup 2023.
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Morpht has been announced as one of the initial suppliers on the GovCMS Digital Experience Platform (DXP) panel - providing personalisation, recommendation and AI services to Australian Government agencies.
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Murray Woodman, our co-founder, explores the integration of AI services, such as Chat GPT and NLP Cloud, into Drupal using modules like Augmenta and ECA. He showcases the configuration and use of these modules for content augmentation, summarization, and classification while discussing AI-generated content's potential benefits and challenges.
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Strategies for successfully migrating sites with many bad links leading to an end result where the broken links are healed and content successfully migrated.
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An examination of the humble "list" and how content can be modelled in Drupal to be flexible, simple and editor friendly.
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Morpht is proud to announce a new release of Convivial for GovCMS which includes personalisation and improved content types, architecture and components.
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Creating a visual representation of a content model can help clients better understand the internal design of their Drupal website and how the pieces fit together.
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Convivial CMS was demonstrated as part of the sponsor showcase at DrupalSouth Shorts. The demonstration focuses on editor experience and Drupal personalization.
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DrupalSouth presentation on Drupal personalization where Murray Woodman demonstrates 13 ways to personalize your Drupal site with open source modules.
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A look at the concepts of Makers and Takers and how an understanding of altruism can help open source projects such as Drupal adapt to the future.
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This is a presentation about a relatively new module called Layout Paragraphs. However, it really should be subtitled as "A brief history of laying things out in Drupal". 
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As Morpht turns nine, a look back over the past year on all the things we have achieved.
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Those of you who work with Drupal, you are probably familiar with the combination of using Search API with a search backend such as MySQL or Solr. A pluggable architecture makes Search API a good choice for indexing content in Drupal.
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Learn about integrating personalisation in Drupal via Recombee. A presentation by Murray Woodman at DrupalSouth 2019.
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Morpht will be presenting at DrupalSouth Hobart 2019 on Personalisation with Recombee and Content migration.
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The newly released GovCMS8 distribution ships with a brand-new base theme, designed to deliver a great-looking, functional site - straight out of the box, with no theming or coding required. Suitable for government agencies, platform evaluators as well as site builders and themers.
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Earlier in the year Morpht was hard at work on the new GovCMS8 UI-Kit Starter theme. That work has come to fruition and has now been released as open source.
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DrupalCon Nashville is being held from April 9 to April 13 in, you guessed it, Nashville. Morpht will be presenting on a site building recipe which combines the Bricks, Paragraphs and Modifiers modules.
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Convivial is a new way to build Drupal websites. It is based on a solid foundation of component driven development with useful building blocks for quickly implementing functional website.
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The Entity Reference Display module allows editors of Drupal sites to select which view mode they would like to display a list of entities as.
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The GovCMS platform is designed to help government agencies get online and to address the challenges and opportunities posed by Digital Transformation. This article looks at the new requirements of the DTO and how they apply to GovCMS.
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Each year the Sydney Drupal Community puts on a two day "DrupalCamp", generally held over a weekend at a location where attendees can get away from it all and get down to some serious Drupal talk.
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Morpht has released a GovCMS demo site which demonstrates some techniques which can lead to easier more effective site builds for Government agencies.
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Designers and Information Architects unfamiliar with GovCMS can get the most from it by knowing about the patterns of Drupal and GovCMS.
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A high level look at the features and capabilities of the GovCMS codebase. Suitable for those considering whether to build a site on the platform.
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It's been a while since the Sydney Drupal community put on a Drupal camp. It's time for that to change.
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A lightning talk, presented by Murray Woodman, which examines the entity load times for different objects including nodes, users, field collections and users. Comparisons are made between different caching strategies, including entitycache, as well as the weight added by fields and hooks. Just how heavy are nodes anyway?
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Information architecture for site builders video presentation presented at DrupalCon Sydney 2013. Find out about the horizontal aspects of Drupal, modelling multi typed objects, relationships and tips for building faceted classification.
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Exciting news for Drupal fans. DrupalCon will be landing in Sydney on 6th-9th February 2013.
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The time it takes for a page to be delivered to a user is very important. The shorter the better. Sites which suffer long download times will typically have higher bounce rates and lower conversions than sites which are faster. Google has recognised the importance of a snappy site by rewarding faster sites with better search results rankings.
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