Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. I can’t believe it’s time for our fortnightly update. Here’s what we’ve been up to…
Go Mobile programme
Linda has been planning the Undergraduate migration project. As well as needing design work and content development, this website has the added complexity of being in T4 but not using the Go Mobile content types.
We’ve been finalising post-migration work on the Schools and Colleges, and Open Day sites. This is to get them ready to hand over to their editors later this month.
Jane has been working with her editors for the Research website. Exciting times – both have now had their training and are using their new skills to get stuck in with T4. Stop press: for the first time we have a site purpose for the Research website.
Technical developments
Linda has reviewed the pre-migration template and tagged up some test content for the Undergraduate migration project. We should be testing this out this week.
Training and support
We ran another T4 show and tell session which covered:
- what happens when you delete a section that is linked to from other sections
- some end user sign off (events and publications)
- an update on the T4 in-line help we’ve been adding to the system
Anne ran a T4 training session, with support from Emma C, for editors from Schools and Colleges, and the Press Office.
We’ve received 36 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 10 of them.
Campaigns and web developments
Alongside Go Mobile we’re still working on business as usual. In the past two weeks we’ve been busy.
The Clearing website first phase is nearing completion – Linda has been working with the Clearing content editors on the site.
Jane was very proud to attend a presentation of the results for the Postgraduate Web Research and Evaluation. It showcased the results of in-depth user testing, external experts review and competitor analysis. And the results show that we have an outstanding website, that performs exceptionally better than the previous one – with the stats to prove it! So it was worth all the hard work then…
Emma C updated the external facing Engagement website and made further updates to the website for our London campus. She also met with colleagues from Marketing and Student Recruitment to plan homepage messaging up to the start of the new academic year.
Lisa is finalising the new international pages for the Pre-Arrival site which are scheduled to go live at the end of the week.
Jane and Gareth met with the University’s Research Impact Officers to discuss our plans for the Research website as part of Go Mobile. They were also really interested in ways to get research active staff online using social media.
Steve updated the Science Central pages to include content on Newcastle as a future Smart City.
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Plans for the next few weeks
We’re getting into peak holiday season with schools breaking up at the end of next week. So while we’ve still got our full complement of staff we’ll be:
- running the next round of Go Mobile training
- reviewing our content standards
- designing custom homepages for Go Mobile sites
- testing the go live process for sites in Go Mobile
