There’s been a fair bit of holiday in the team over the past couple of weeks. Those of us left behind have been busy getting batch two sites ready to go live.
Go Mobile programme
Fen has been migrating the Pre-Arrival and Faculty of Medical Sciences websites into T4. They are both at the proofing and editing stage. She is working with the Faculty of Medical Sciences to make some amendments and updates to their content, ready for go live next week.
Fen and Jane met with the Pre-Arrival team – they are delighted with their development site and can’t wait to get stuck in on T4! Fen is proofing the site and sourcing images, ready for go live next week.
Andrew has been editing content on the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences website preparing it for go live next week.
Linda has been doing some prep work for the Services for Business website – which is due to go through the Go Mobile transformation in batch four.
Linda checked in with the Alumni team. They’ve been reviewing their new site only a couple of months after go live! Super keen. They’ve got plans to add new content types and develop some of their messaging.
Lisa has been building, editing content and sourcing images for the new Faculty of Medical Sciences Online site.
Emily has been working on the content and structure for the Accommodation website.
Emma C has proofread the new Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia website which goes live next week.
We’ve been planning the batch three sites, lining things up for audits etc.
Design and technical developments
We’ve imported the following sites into T4:
- Accommodation
- FMS
- NUBS
- Pre-Arrival
- NICR
Custom analytics and Google Ad tracking has been added to the T4 version of the Business School site.
Peter has modified the standard Events list so they can now be added to tabbed pages.
Campaigns and other developments
The Universal Analytics tracking code update for WordPress sites on microsites.ncl.ac.uk has been passed to the Digital Platforms team to implement.
Linda’s been working with teams in Marketing and Newcastle University London to get content ready for Clearing.
Emma C has been making plans for the next Web Editor Community Event. If your site has been through the Go Mobile process already keep an eye out for the invite coming early next week.
Following queries from editors, Lisa wrote a couple of blogs posts around hyperlinks: To Link or Not to Link – When and Where to Use Hyperlinks and A Quick Guide to…Hyperlinks.
Training and support
Linda, Jane and Lisa delivered Planning and Writing Web Content training.
We’ve received 21 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 12 of them.
Plans for the next few weeks
Batch two sites going live in the next couple of weeks:
- Marine
- Numed
- NUBS
- Accommodation
- Pre-arrival
- Civil Engineering
- FMS Faculty
- FMS online courses
- Clearing (1st July)
