Go Mobile programme
We finished working on sites in batch two, with five sites going live on 24 June:
- Faculty of Medical Sciences
- Faculty of Medical Sciences Online Courses
- Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia
- School of Marine Science and Technology
- Pre-Arrival
Lisa proofread the Faculty of Medical Sciences website. She also met with the editor for the new Medical Sciences Online Learning site. The editor is delighted with the site and is already planning ways to evaluate and develop the content.
Fen proofread the Medical Sciences Online Learning website. This week, she has been helping the editors in the Faculty of Medical Sciences to make some updates to their content.
Emily and Steve have been working on the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences website, ready for go live today.
Jane and Emily have been putting the finishing touches to the Accommodation website. All members of the content team have chipped in to proof the site ready for go live today.
Fen and Linda have been working with the UG marketing team to develop new websites for Clearing and Clearing at Newcastle University London. Both sites will go live today.
Emma C has been working on the Business School website in T4, getting it ready to hand back to the NUBS marketing team for final accuracy checks.
Andrew has been working with the Institute of Cellular Medicine and the CardioVascular Research Centre on the initial stages of their website developments.
We’re continually reviewing our processes so we can be flexible and effective throughout the entire Go Mobile project. We held a ‘Sprint retrospective’ meeting on Wednesday to assess how things went in batch two, and identify where improvements can be made for future batches.
Design and technical developments
Catherine and Peter have been working on the design for some banners for our UG degree pages. The banners will link to the new Clearing website and will show which courses are available when Clearing opens in August. Catherine has also been preparing the colour schemes for the batch three sites.
Campaigns and other developments
Catherine is building a new research section for the Newcastle Academic Health Partners website.
Peter has been updating the goals in Google Analytics and adding additional button tracking for the Clearing campaign.
Emma C has worked with members of the Press Office and International Relations team to get statements from the University about the outcome of the EU Referendum onto the website.
Linda wrote a blog post about using Clarity Grader to improve the readability of a website.
Training and support
Four of the team attended a two-day Google Analytics training session to make sure we have everything set up correctly and are getting the most from our data.
Anne delivered T4 CMS Basics training.
Andrew delivered Media Management training.
Fen and Jane are preparing to deliver Planning and Writing Web Content training next week.
The whole team has been involved in planning our upcoming Web Editors Community event, taking place on Monday 11 July.
We’ve received 34 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 18 of them.
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re beginning work on sites in batch three. Audits are in progress and site structures are being agreed. Next up is pre-migration work to get the sites ready to import into T4.
