The Scale
This was not a light refresh. The platform held thousands of pages, tens of thousands of files, and a broad audience of readers, writers, translators, donors, scholars, and partner institutions.
Case Study
World Literature Today
Supporting a major literary publication from Drupal 7 through Drupal 11 and beyond without overwhelming the team responsible for it.
World Literature Today is an internationally recognized literary publication at the University of Oklahoma with decades of editorial history, a global audience, and a small team responsible for keeping an enormous archive current.
Over multiple years, EvenVision has supported the publication from Drupal 7 through Drupal 11 and beyond, pairing platform modernization, accessibility, Pantheon hosting management, and day-to-day stewardship in a way that gives the editorial staff a calmer, more manageable system to work within.
Results at a Glance
- Supported the platform from Drupal 7 through Drupal 11 and ongoing stewardship beyond that transition.
- Led a major Drupal modernization covering more than 6,000 pages and tens of thousands of files.
- Managed accessibility improvements, CMS usability, and institutional-quality publishing workflows as part of the ongoing relationship.
- Supported Pantheon hosting and platform management alongside application-level work.
- Reorganized content, layout, and navigation to make decades of material easier to browse and manage.
- Built workflows that let a small non-technical editorial team publish hundreds of new pages each quarter.
Accessibility + Stewardship
- Accessibility remained a core requirement across migrations, interface refinements, and editorial workflows.
- Managed Pantheon hosting and platform stewardship alongside the CMS work.
- Supported search, discoverability, and navigation improvements across a large editorial archive.
What Improved
The result is a stable, accessible platform that keeps editorial work moving without forcing staff back into developer queues for routine publishing.
A high-stakes platform for a small team
For World Literature Today, the website is not a side channel. It is central to subscriptions, digital access, institutional credibility, and the publication's relationship with readers around the world.
That meant our work had to do more than complete a migration. It had to support accessibility, protect the integrity of a major archive, and feel organized, careful, and trustworthy for the editorial staff carrying it.
From Drupal 7 to Drupal 11 and beyond
Over the years, our support has carried World Literature Today across multiple generations of Drupal while maintaining continuity for staff and readers. That long view matters because it keeps the platform from falling into a cycle of emergency catch-up and costly instability.
Our role has included CMS modernization, information architecture, accessibility work, hosting management on Pantheon, and ongoing stewardship that helps the publication stay current without unnecessary strain on the client team.
Accessibility was not an add-on
Because the site serves public audiences within a university environment, accessibility had to be treated as a standing requirement rather than a late-stage checklist. We approached structure, interface decisions, and editorial workflows with that expectation in mind.
That work helps World Literature Today remain credible to readers, usable to a wide range of visitors, and manageable for the people publishing content every day.
50th anniversary rebrand
Our relationship with World Literature Today has also included managing the publication's 50th anniversary rebrand, extending the engagement beyond infrastructure into public-facing identity work.
That work helped the publication celebrate a major milestone while staying recognizable, credible, and aligned with the long-term identity its readers and institutional partners already knew.
Designed for real editorial workflows
- Small-team publishing without routine developer involvement.
- Content structures that support ongoing growth rather than short-term cleanup.
- Layouts and navigation that help visitors find their way through decades of literary content.
Why it mattered
The end state was not just a successful migration. It was a system that editorial staff could keep using confidently, quarter after quarter, while continuing to serve a global audience inside a university-governed environment.
Voice of the Client
EvenVision is the perfect partner for organizations with more technical needs than expertise. They are plain-spoken, transparent, and responsive support specialists who efficiently and competently helped us overcome a slew of challenges associated with our website.
Rob Vollmar, World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma
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