After months of hard work from the Web Team, Undergraduate Marketing and our IT Service, the Undergraduate website is now responsive.
The Undergraduate site is one of the largest and most popular parts of the ncl.ac.uk web presence. It uses many of the Go Mobile design features (grids, mastheads, buttons) and also introduces a few bespoke elements:
- at a glance course content
- student profiles
- related courses
The whole site has been updated in line with our writing for mobile standards; this means our site users should find it easier to access the content. The new site makes full use of our template’s ability to support larger images and video content.
Lisa is working with colleagues in the Institute for Sustainability to rebuild the Science Central site in T4.
Emma C is working with colleagues in Marketing and Student Recruitment and the International Office to prepare the International website for Go Mobile.
Design and Technical developments
Peter has been working on the pre-migration template for the International website. He has also taken copies of the Undergraduate PDF brochures. This allows the UG Marketing team to work with ReportLab to get their system to work with the new Undergraduate website.
Andy has been working on amends to the Undergraduate course profile for use on tablet and mobile devices.
The tech team also conducted final Internet browser testing. This makes sure that amended scripts and styles are cross browser compliant.
Training and support
Emma C ran our last two training sessions of the year, both on Media Management. And she’s working on a report template to present the excellent training feedback we’ve been getting.
We’ve received 27 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 22 of them.
Campaigns and web developments
Steve has been working on a new University International Relations external facing website. The aim of the site is to communicate our internationalisation priorities to an external audience. It includes a Google map showing all our strategic partnerships, and UK and overseas campuses.
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re closing shop for the Christmas break. Here’s what some of the team will be doing over the holidays:
- Linda plans to drink Christmas ales, eat Wensleydale and cranberry cheese and listen to festive Bob Dylan songs
- Lisa will be eating chocolates and enjoying some cheesy Christmas films
- Anne will be doing most of the above but will substitute the ale for wine
- Emma C will be baking stollen and playing Trivial Pursuit
And we’ll all be returning to work on January 4th eager to get stuck in to phase 2 of Go Mobile.
