In batch six of the Go Mobile programme we published five sites. They are:
If you’re using T4 to manage your website, and have links to these sites, you can now add them as section links. See Anne’s post for an easy way to use Siteimprove to find which sites you’re linking to.
During this batch we also began pre-migration work on nine clinical research facility sites.
Campus has been really busy over the past few weeks, and our office has been no exception. We’ve been working hard to get our sites for Batch 5 finished and ready to go.
Go Mobile programme
Fen and Jane have been working on the websites for Conferences and Catering. They met with the hospitality team last week to talk through the new structure and identify where photography is required.
Fen also proofed the Biomedical Sciences website.
Emily has been busy doing the editorial work for Computing Sciences, and putting the final touches to Biomedical Sciences. She’s also proofed the Education, Communication and Language Science site.
Emma C has been working on the Events website.
Lisa has been busy doing the editorial work for GURU, and has proofed the Events website.
Steve built a brand new site for the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI), which was proofed by Linda.
We’ve launched eight new websites this afternoon:
Campaigns and other developments
Lisa has been supporting the School of History, Classics and Archaeology with some structural and content developments on their site.
Fen has been helping the Marketing Team to update the social media listings on the Website Information and Feedback website.
Training and support
Lisa shared a quick guide to embedding videos on T4.
Anne ran a bespoke T4 session for the new Postgraduate Study website editors.
Emma C delivered media management training.
We’ve received 40 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 26 of them.
Plans for the next few weeks
Next week, we’ll be starting on Batch 6 and celebrating the halfway point of the Go Mobile programme!
We’ve organised a team meeting to discuss strategy for calls to action.
Better late than never, here’s what we’ve been doing in the web team over the past couple of weeks.
Andrew has been working on the post-migration checks and editing the new School of Education, Communication and Languages website in T4. He’s also been developing a new Travelling to Newcastle page for the About section of the website, which will be launched shortly.
Steve’s been working with the School on the new website for Computing Science.
Emily’s done an audit of photos for the upcoming School of Arts and Cultures website, and has edited the new Biomedical Sciences site in T4. She’s also done the audit for NICAP, and has been working on some reviews of sites that have already gone live.
Emma C has completed an audit of ten clinical research facility sites. She’s also been working on migrating the University Events website into T4.
Lisa has finished post-migration checks on the GURU site and is currently editing the content. She has also been collating some analytics to help with the development of the site.
After returning from a two week holiday, Fen’s been working on the Catering and Conferences websites. They’re currently being edited in T4.
The tech team have been focused on pre-migration prep and then migrating the current batch of sites in T4. This has included some specific developments and scoping of project requirements for the School of Computing Science and the University Events website.
Emma C has done an audit of our own website and is working on developing it alongside our Go Mobile demo site. She’s also been creating some custom analytics reports to support development of the GURU website and reporting on internationalisation activities.
Lisa and Jane met to discuss first steps in developing a tone of voice across University sites.
The content team met to discuss and agree a plan for reviewing sites that have already gone through the Go Mobile process.
Emma C is drawing up the schedule for this academic year’s community events for web editors.
This week Anne ran a T4 Basics session and has been planning our training schedule for the coming year.
We’ve received 47 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 21 of them.
Lisa wrote a blog post about limiting video content on websites.
Next week Emma’s running a training session on media management.
We’re deep into editing the next batch of sites ready for go live on 7 October. The next tasks are accuracy checks and proof reading.
After holidays over the summer – the team is gradually getting back up to speed.
The whole team was busy getting the latest five sites ready to go live on 2 September. Batch 4 saw the following sites go live:
We’re also doing some follow up work – using Siteimprove and Clarity Grader to see how sites have improved.
Lisa’s been writing handover notes for the editor of the History, Classics and Archaeology site. She’s also reviewd the GURU audit and tagged up the site in the pre-migration template.
Emily’s been on annual leave for a week, and after that has been working on the pre-migration tagging for Biomedical Sciences. She’s also finished up the Modern Languages audit and benchmarking.
Andrew proofed the School of History, Classics and Archaeology site. He’s doing final checks on the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies ahead of its launch today.
Andrew’s also working on pre-migration of the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. He’s reworking the Travelling to Newcastle page in About.
Emma C has completed an audit of ten clinical research facility sites.
Emma C has been working with the tech team and planning developments needed to bring the University Events website into T4.
Lisa has been scheduling and updating seasonal messaging for the University’s homepage.
Linda and Jane are preparing for a Planning and Writing session scheduled for next week.
Anne and Emma C have been tailoring our Go Mobile training in preparation for remote training of the web editors in Singapore.
We’ve received 30 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 15 of them.
The team are working on Batch 5 of the Go Mobile programme. There are seven sites under development which are due for completion on 7 October.
We’re well under way with work on sites in Batch 4 of Go Mobile.
Andrew has worked on the pre-migration tagging of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies website. He will begin post-migration and editing in T4 next.
Linda has been checking the pre-migration content for the Working with Business website ready for its migration into T4 next week.
Steve and Emily have been preparing the Singapore site for migration.
Emma C has edited content for the new Spatial Analytics and Modelling site.
Fen has been working with Catherine to develop the social media directory on the Website Information and Feedback site.
Audits have begun on sites in batch 5, including:
Linda and Lisa met with editors in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology to discuss their migration into T4. On the cards, a new structure and colour scheme!
Catherine has been filling in for Peter while he is on holiday by doing the technical preparation and migration of Batch 4 sites.
Linda is working on a workshop to develop new content for a Sport website.
Steve has been planning web developments related to the Science and Engineering Excellence project.
Lisa has been restructuring and developing content on the Study website.
Fen has been developing new content for the Loyola Centre, which she will add to the Mobility website this autumn.
Catherine has been finalising the technical requirements for the Clearing campaign. She is also setting up a development website for a new library resource, the Academic Skills Kit.
Linda and Fen delivered the Planning and Writing workshops last week and Linda delivered a Media Management session.
This week Emma C and Emily ran yet more Planning and Writing workshops. And Anne delivered a T4 Basics session.
We’ve received 52 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 19 of them.
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be working on:
