{"id":1243,"date":"2015-10-28T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2015-10-28T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T09:25:18","slug":"team-update-15-28-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/10\/28\/team-update-15-28-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Update: 15 &#8211; 28 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again with your fortnightly catch-up on the work of the web team.<\/p>\n<h2>Progress on the Go Mobile programme<\/h2>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press\">Press Office website<\/a> was launched, bringing phase one of the programme to a close.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re planning the next phase of Go Mobile developments: audits are starting, meetings are being arranged. We\u2019re aiming to start properly in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has been working on rebuilding the websites for Digital Institute and Physics in the new content management system (CMS).<\/p>\n<p>Lisa is busy carrying out an audit of Newcastle University\u2019s Business School website.<\/p>\n<p>Emma C finished the rebuild of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/london\">Newcastle University London website<\/a> in the CMS. It went live in time for the official launch of the London campus on 21 October.<\/p>\n<p>We are working with the undergraduate marketing team to get all final elements and design features into their new website. The undergraduate team are currently working on content and images.<\/p>\n<h2>Design and technical developments<\/h2>\n<p>We released our latest iteration of the external homepage and implemented a new \u2018<strong>mega menu<\/strong>\u2019 across the Go Mobile sites. This as <strong>an extension of the global navigation links at the top of each page<\/strong>. This includes direct links to the most popular sections of our website. It replaces the &#8216;mega footer&#8217; from the old design.<\/p>\n<h2>Training and support<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve <strong>received 33 support requests<\/strong> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuservice.ncl.ac.uk\/\">NU Service Helpdesk<\/a> and have <strong>resolved 16<\/strong> of them.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa has been making updates to the planning and writing web content training. We&#8217;re ready for the next round of training sessions in November and December.<\/p>\n<h2>Campaigns and web developments<\/h2>\n<p>Emma C\u2019s been messing about in spreadsheets. Testing the Google Analytics add-on for Google Sheets and working out how we can combine analytics data into our content audits.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has been working on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/sage\/dta\">SAgE DTA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa wrote a blog post about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/10\/21\/improving-page-titles-and-headlines\/\">improving page titles and headlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Plans for the next few weeks<\/h2>\n<p>As we prepare for the next phase of Go Mobile there&#8217;s a number of opportunities to keep our skills up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sending a small contingent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/training\/london\/\">Nielsen Norman\u2019s Usability Training Week<\/a> in London next month. Lisa and Jane will attend the content strategy workshop, while Emma C will be at the analytics and user experience workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Peter and Catherine are attending an advanced JavaScript course on-site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again with your fortnightly catch-up on the work of the web team. Progress on the Go Mobile programme The new Press Office website was launched, bringing phase one of the programme to a close. We\u2019re planning the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/10\/28\/team-update-15-28-october\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-do","tag-team-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}