It’s that time again – read on to find out what we’ve been up to over the past couple of weeks.
Go Mobile programme
We’re working on the sites from batches 1 and 2 which have been migrated into T4. There’s a bit of post-migration fixing to get them ready to hand over to our web editors. Editors will then have an opportunity to work on their content, using the new content types.
Batch 3 has been migrated into T4 and we are about to start importing batch 4 later this week.
We’ve updated our website to include details of the first group of sites in development and outline the stages in the development process (University login required).
Technical developments
We are currently signing off the components that our editors will be using regularly once their website has been handed over to them to edit.
More complex components (such as image galleries and grid layouts) will be worked on soon after this.
Design
Press Office and Research design mock-ups are now complete. Batch 1 and 2 base stylesheets to be developed further for roll out within T4.
Planning is underway to migrate the Undergraduate site into a responsive design.
Training and support
We received our first official feedback on our Writing and Planning Web Content workshop.
We got some great comments on the session – so we’re happy. People seemed to really like:
- two facilitators to break up the presentation
- the exercises and tasks we set
We’re continuously developing our training as we learn more.
We’ve introduced a T4 show and tell session for our own team to help us understand the CMS as we start using it.
We’ve received 45 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 25 of them.
Campaigns and web developments
There’s still a lot of business as usual!
Linda has worked with our International Marketing team to review plans for a restructure of their content over the summer.
Discussions/sites are in the pipeline with HR, Clearing, Careers and our Assessed Summer School.
Emma C has been monitoring our performance in search rankings. She’s also looking into better ways to report and display our analytics data.
Emma C and Lisa launched the new Newcastle University London website.
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re busy preparing for our next batch of Go Mobile training.
We’re always planning and writing blogs – let us know if there’s a topic you’d like us to cover.
Holiday season is underway. A couple of our team are over in Malaysia at the moment. They took the opportunity to visit our medical campus: NUMed Malaysia while they were there. That’s dedication!
See you next time!
