Here we are again – read on to find out what we’ve been working on for the last two weeks.
Go Mobile programme
We’ve been updating our plan and confirming task are on (or ahead of!) schedule. We’re starting to look beyond the end of the first cycle and to sketch out plans for the rest of our sites.
Emma C has been reviewing our style guides and content standards to make sure we’ve covered all the new content types. And we’re building a demo site to showcase the new design and best practices.
Technical and design developments
We met to finalise the layout/design options for central sites in Go Mobile. Andy is creating visual mockups for various page types in the new template.
We’ve been testing and refining the migration process further. Catherine is looking at the requirements for staff web profiles in the MyImpact system.
Training and support
The editorial team trialled their new training programme on the rest of the team. The feedback was positive and they’ve given some suggestions for additions and improvements.
Anne has been busy as always, in the last two weeks she:
- delivered a quick access T4 CMS training session to some of the Postgraduate editors
- has been developing more in-depth CMS training for editors involved in the migration of sites into T4
- trained 7 web editors in the use of Contribute to manage their websites
Emma C has been investigating free, browser based image editing tools. Keep an eye out for her recommendations in an upcoming post.
We’ve received 39 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 18 of them.
Campaigns and web developments
Alongside Go Mobile we’re continuing with business as usual.
We’ve updated our website (University login required) to provide information on service developments, including:
- Siteimprove for checking broken links and misspellings
- ways to check and improve the readability of your content
- a standard dashboard in Google Analytics to report on the performance of your site
Steve and Lisa have launched the new NEXUS facility website.
We’ve written blog posts to help with structuring content and fixing broken links and misspellings. Emma C has reviewed the analytics for our first two months. The figures show that we’re getting lots of return visitors who are reading multiple posts at each visit.
Clearing 2015 planning is underway. There’s some content design and tech set up needed to support colleagues in Marketing and Student Recruitment.
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re getting out of the office for a day to take stock of how far we’ve come through Go Mobile and plan for the next few months.
Our monthly blog roundup is ready to go out to our community of web editors tomorrow.
The first training sessions on Planning and Writing Web Content and T4 take place on the 7 and 8 May.
That’s all for now. See you for our next update in a couple of weeks.
