Introduction to Go Mobile

The Newcastle University website was designed to be viewed on standard desktop monitors. Yet in 2014 25% of global web traffic comes from mobile devices. Our website analytics show that visits to our site reflect this trend, with 28% of traffic coming from mobile devices.

The Go Mobile programme is an exciting mission to give our users what they need – high quality web content that is mobile responsive.

What we’re doing

We’re making a commitment to improve our web content.

We’re making our sites responsive. Users of tablets, mobiles and desktops see the same website optimised for viewing on their screen.

We’re improving our Content Management System. We have over 20,000 external facing web pages and the systems used to edit and publish them are out of date. We’re moving all our sites into the Terminal 4 Content Management System (T4).

People involved

The Corporate Web Development team are leading this project with the support of the IT Service.

Programme updates on our blog

We’ll be using this blog to provide updates. This could be anything from a key project milestone to a ‘show and tell’ type post on a new responsive feature or design component.

Expect to see blood, sweat, tears and plenty of photos of post it notes as we plan this huge programme of work.

Get in touch

If you have any questions about the project please contact us.

We’ll also be adding project updates to our website (University Login required).

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Beginning Blogging

There’s a lot on the horizon for the Corporate Web Development (CWD) team at Newcastle University. Last year we redeveloped our postgraduate website. It has a new responsive design and improved, user-focused content.

Off the back of this we’ve begun a programme of work to make all the University’s external facing sites mobile friendly. It’s even got a catchy name: Go Mobile.

We’ve launched this blog to keep our web editors up to date with our activities. We’ll also provide information, advice and resources to help you solve problems and improve your content.

As well as regular updates from our Go Mobile programme you can expect to see posts on the following topics:

We’ll introduce each of these themes on the blog over the next couple of weeks.

We also hope the blog will help to raise the profile of our team within the University and beyond.

Keep up to date

Subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up to date with activity on the blog.

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