It’s time for a team update about what we’ve been working on over the last two weeks and what’s coming up.
Go Mobile programme
- Tagging sites ready for migration – batch one, including Research, Law School, Press Office, Institute for Sustainability is complete. And batch two is nearing completion for; Open Day, Information for Schools and Colleges, and last but not least About
- A lot of detailed planning of the steps in the migration process itself and scoping out potential go-live dates for the first batches of sites
- Calculating the time taken for each task to give us an accurate picture of the resources involved in the programme overall
- Updating our giant whiteboard, on which we are tracking our progress in migrating batches one and two
Technical developments
- The tech team (Catherine, Pete, Andy and Paul) have been moving the final template and components to its permanent home on the live server
- They’ve also been making final preparations for the migration of the PG site into T4
- We have also been getting ready to migrate batch one (four sites) into T4 and looking at the individual template requirements of each site
Training and support
- The editorial team have been finalising training materials for the new Go Mobile programme
- Anne is still working on training for the T4 CMS
- We’ve received 24 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 7 of them
Campaigns and web developments
There’s still a lot of business as usual!
- Emma C has been working with colleagues in Marketing and Student Recruitment to plan homepage messages for the next few months
- Steve has developed some external research pages on the Sage Faculty website
- Emma C attended a demo of the remote user testing platform What Users Do
- Jane has been reviewing some videos of external user testing of the PG website, and also writing a blog post about how much we hate FAQs (it’s true)
Travel-tastic
- We enjoyed some time off for the Easter bank holidays – some team members travelled as far afield as Copenhagen, America, London and even good old Yorkshire
Plans for the next few weeks
- Refining layout/design options for sites in Go Mobile
- We’ll be carrying out post-migration checks on the first batch of sites in T4
- Our editorial team are meeting to plan future content for this blog – let us know in the comments if there’s any topics you want us to cover
See you next time!
