The website of the University of Turku was at the end of its life cycle and desperately needed to be updated to meet the expectations of today's mobile users and to highlight the research and education opportunities at the university. So, Wunder developed the new website in close collaboration with the university.
The University of Turku is an active academic community of 25,000 students and employees. Above all, it is a multidisciplinary and international research university in the heart of Turku.
Three Finnish agencies joined forces to promote the development of the digital society and to ensure efficient, safe and sustainable transport and communications services. Traficom and the new traficom.fi web service were born.
The Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi), the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) and certain functions of the Finnish Transport Agency merged to form the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom. The Traficom.fi web service was developed as the primary service channel for the new agency.
Nelonen Media is a Finnish commercial broadcasting company owned by Sanoma Media Finland, which is a part of Sanoma group.
The goal is to provide online services for Nelonen Media through agile development and to continuously develop them based on real-time analytical data.
The Scalda student, parent and employee portals are built in a single Drupal 8 backend with custom REST web services and an Angular decoupled front-end. Using this portal, users can access all relevant information, like their schedule, grades, exams, news etc. and receive notifications for important events related to their study or class.
In my mind Drupal 8.8.8 is the current stable release of Drupal 8.x and 9.0.1 is the next stable branch, Drupal 9.x.... but what the heck is 8.9.1, a transitional step in between 8 & 9?
Not only am I new to Drupal but I am brand new to making websites or any coding. The NGO I volunteer for was desperate and got me, so I appreciate your patience. We are about 80% sure we want to use Drupal 9/8 but want to make sure we can do it.
Aside from my lack of expertise, our main limitation is money and hardware. I only have two 2GHz 4GB RAM laptops with one standard ethernet connection. I have read what seemed to be the most similar posts but still am not clear on a few things. My specific questions: