Murray Woodman

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

Projects

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Morpht built the Australian Hydrographic Office's new GovCMS website on a condensed schedule, making charts, Notices to Mariners and tide tables easier to find.
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Morpht delivered the Defence and Veterans' Services Commission website in six weeks for its launch, built to WCAG 2.2 AA with a reusable consultation webform.
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Morpht rebuilt the Reef Knowledge System on GovCMS SaaS with a Resource Hub, topic navigation and personalised recommendations. Runner-up in two Splash Awards.
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Morpht moved Reef Guardian Schools to GovCMS SaaS with 382 schools and 800+ users, no re-registration, and a secure resource library just for teachers.
MDSAP medical device factory
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Morpht created a new brand and award-winning website for the Medical Device Single Audit Program, with a document library searchable without document codes.
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GovFlix is Morpht's proof that GovCMS SaaS can deliver personalised recommendations, semantic search and an AI chatbot, with no personal data collected.
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Morpht rebuilt the Australian Energy Regulator website on GovCMS, migrating 26,997 pages and 41,815 documents with no data loss, on schedule and on budget.
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Morpht rebuilt the Department of Defence's DATE website around user journeys, with a new Tactics Hub. Half of its traffic now comes from overseas partners.
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Morpht delivered a new World AIDS Day website for the Department of Health and Aged Care in under three weeks, with an events map and improved search.
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Morpht redesigned the National Office for Child Safety website in under three weeks for a national campaign. Page views then rose 745% in three weeks.
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Morpht built the Respect@Work website for the Australian Human Rights Commission, using privacy-safe personalisation to show employers and workers what applies.
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Morpht rebuilt the TGA website on GovCMS, turning 95,000+ ARTG records into searchable pages and cutting 71 content types to 49 for 5.5 million monthly users.
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Morpht rebuilt the Redfern Legal Centre website in Drupal 9 with Folk, migrating 1,387 articles and 343 resources so clients can find legal help online.
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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.
Food inspection
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Morpht moved the NSW Food Authority website to GovCMS, migrating 8,000+ pages and files. Traffic rose 9.7% year on year and time on page increased by 44%.
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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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Morpht moved the Attorney-General's Department website from SharePoint to GovCMS, organising 1,200 pages and 6,000+ publications into nine searchable sections.
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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 turned the 500+ page Australian Immunisation Handbook into structured online content, with live feeds powering a mobile app and Catch-up Calculator.
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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.

Articles

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Government digital projects demand more than just technical competence. They require a partner who understands compliance, public sector risk, and the unique lifecycle of government infrastructure. We have put together the following checklist to help guide government agencies through the procurement process.
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Recent updates to Convivial for GovCMS bring substantial improvements to accessibility, mobile responsiveness, and overall user experience. We’ve also focused heavily on reducing technical debt and empowering content editors with more flexible components.
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Morpht is announcing the development of a new “AI Edition” of its Convivial for GovCMS accelerator for Australian government agencies. The “AI Edition” can be installed in GovCMS PaaS to take advantage of Drupal AI functionality and the site, on top of a wide range of AI services.
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Discover how leveraging the Drupal ecosystem and trusted procurement panels protects government CMS platforms from vendor lock-in, security threats, and data sovereignty risks.
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The Drupal marketplace is driving a shift toward high-quality, accessible, and easily maintainable templates tailored for specific industry verticals (like government, healthcare, and education).
Build site template for Marketplace - Murray
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Convivial for GovCMS, an advanced starter site for GovCMS projects, has been significantly updated and improved with the DaisyUI framework and other best-in-class features.
Canberra Hot Air Balloons
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A logged-in user experience is possible on GovCMS SaaS with a bit of creative thinking, opening the way to support online communities with simple needs.
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In a recent DrupalSouth blog series, Murray Woodman was interviewed for some hot takes on the CMS landscape and Drupal’s positioning in the market.
Drupal is enterprise ready
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The Convivial for GovCMS accelerator has recently undergone a significant round of improvements and fixes. The new improvements will bring more power and flexibility to site builders and editors on GovCMS projects making use of the starter site.
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In a recent DrupalSouth blog series, Murray Woodman was interviewed for some hot takes on the new Drupal AI initiative and innovation in general.
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In a previous post, we looked at how search can be improved through the use of a confusion matrix and the removal of false positives. This article takes the thought process a step further by looking at how context or “regimes” can be used to further improve results.
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Site owners and users naturally want the best, most relevant search results to be delivered to them. This article provides a framework for the evaluation of search results and offers suggestions on how results can be improved.
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The addition of a dark mode feature on your site can improve the accessibility, inclusiveness and aesthetics of the site. Providing users with the ability to select how they view the site will lead to a better user experience for many users.
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GovCMS SaaS is capable of supporting complex business logic and custom user flows to support users in their decision making process.
Business rules in GovCMS
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A review of where the web is at and where it is going. Buckle in. It's a little bit bleak but there are rays of light.
The future of web
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The Convivial for GovCMS (Bootstrap) site accelerator has received a large update incorporating many new DXP features and other improvements and fixes.
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A guide to setting up a simple map solution on GovCMS SaaS.
GovCMS How to: Maps
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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.
GovCMS How to: Sections and channels
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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.
GovCMS How to: Embargoed files
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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.
GovCMS How to series
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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 personalisation where Murray Woodman demonstrates 13 ways to personalise your Drupal site with open source modules.
Life is like a box of chocolates
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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.
Information architecture for site builders
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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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