It’s time again to find out what we’ve been up to over the past couple of weeks.
Go Mobile programme
Linda ran Clarity Grader reports on the undergraduate courses to help their team with improving the readability of their website.
We attended a PG Web Research session that detailed the user research and analytics results for the new postgraduate website, so far it’s been a complete success.
Technical developments
We’ve set standards around building news, events and staff lists in T4 to introduce greater consistency across our websites. We’re planning to introduce this through the T4 migration process.
Continuing to sign off components in T4 and as we apply these new components to real content we realise we need to update things again…
All the top 20 websites have been imported into T4 and are ready to be edited – Go team!
Design
Base style sheets have been added into the T4 CMS:
- Research
- Press Office
- Undergraduate
- About
- Study
- Open Day
- Schools and Colleges
- Law School
- Architecture, Planning & Landscape
- Ageing
- Social Renewal
- Sustainability
Training and support
Jane and Lisa delivered a Planning and Writing Web Content training session on Monday 22 June, that’s 10 customers who left all fired up about writing well for the web!
Anne with support from Lisa delivered a T4 training session on Tuesday 23 June.
Ongoing updates are being made to our training materials.
We’re also aiming to provide a few lines of help beside each field in T4. This will help our end users as they add content in the system.
We’ve received 44 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 19 of them.
Campaigns and web developments
That business as usual is still coming in….
Emma C met with colleagues from the PARTNERS team to plan a new student focused site for the Assessed Summer School.
Lisa is working on international content for the Pre-Arrival site.
Emma B has been working with colleagues in Philosophical Studies and SACS to overhaul their websites as well as setting up a new internal site for the School of English and continuing to work on the Go Mobile programme.
Steve is working with Mechanical Engineering on setting up an internal site and helping to make changes to the Science Central pages. He is also continuing to meet with Schools within SAgE Faculty to look at their web provision and support.
Plans for the next few weeks
Exciting times for Go Mobile – the newly trained Web Editors for the Research website will be given access to their new site to get editing, using all the knowledge from our training.Supported by Jane, their Project Manager they will get to grips with prioritising what work needs to be tackled first.
We have a Web Communications Strategy Group meeting this month, where Gareth will provide a progress report about the Go Mobile project.
Jane and Gareth will be meeting with the Faculty Impact Officers, with members of the Press and Digital Marketing team to discuss how to raise the profile of our research impact.
Lisa will be holidaying in the lovely Lake District – better pack those waterproofs…
See you next time!
