{"id":559,"date":"2015-04-29T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=559"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:37:30","slug":"team-update-15-29-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/04\/29\/team-update-15-29-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Update: 15 &#8211; 29 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again \u2013 read on to find out what we\u2019ve been working on for the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>Go Mobile programme<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been updating our plan and confirming task are on (or ahead of!) schedule. We\u2019re starting to look beyond the end of the first cycle and to sketch out plans for the rest of our sites.<\/p>\n<p>Emma C has been reviewing our style guides and content standards to make sure we\u2019ve covered all the new content types. And we\u2019re building a <strong>demo site to showcase the new design<\/strong> and best practices.<\/p>\n<h2>Technical and design developments<\/h2>\n<p>We met to finalise the layout\/design options for central sites in Go Mobile. Andy is creating visual mockups for various page types in the new template.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been testing and refining the migration process further. Catherine is looking at the requirements for <strong>staff web profiles<\/strong> in the MyImpact system.<\/p>\n<h2>Training and support<\/h2>\n<p>The editorial team trialled their new training programme on the rest of the team. The feedback was positive and they&#8217;ve given some suggestions for additions and improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Anne has been busy as always, in the last two weeks she:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>delivered a quick access T4 CMS training session to some of the Postgraduate editors<\/li>\n<li>has been developing more in-depth CMS training for editors involved in the migration of sites into T4<\/li>\n<li>trained 7 web editors in the use of Contribute to manage their websites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emma C has been investigating free, <strong>browser based image editing<\/strong> tools. Keep an eye out for her recommendations in an upcoming post.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve received <strong>39 support requests<\/strong> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuservice.ncl.ac.uk\/\">NU Service Helpdesk<\/a> and have <strong>resolved 18<\/strong> of them.<\/p>\n<h2>Campaigns and web developments<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside Go Mobile we\u2019re continuing with business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve updated <a href=\"https:\/\/internal.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/\">our website<\/a> (University login required) to provide information on service developments, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Siteimprove<\/strong> for checking broken links and misspellings<\/li>\n<li>ways to check and improve the <strong>readability<\/strong> of your content<\/li>\n<li>a <strong>standard dashboard<\/strong> in Google Analytics to report on the performance of your site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Steve and Lisa have launched the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/nexus\/\">NEXUS facility website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written blog posts to help with <a title=\"How to Structure Content on a Webpage\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/04\/21\/how-to-structure-content-on-a-webpage\/\">structuring content<\/a> and <a title=\"Fix Broken Links and Misspellings with Siteimprove\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/04\/23\/fix-broken-links-and-misspellings-with-siteimprove\/\">fixing broken links and misspellings<\/a>. Emma C has reviewed the analytics for our first two months. The figures show that we\u2019re getting lots of return visitors who are reading multiple posts at each visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clearing 2015<\/strong> planning is underway. There\u2019s some content design and tech set up needed to support colleagues in Marketing and Student Recruitment.<\/p>\n<h2>Plans for the next few weeks<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re getting out of the office for a day to take stock of how far we\u2019ve come through Go Mobile and plan for the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Our monthly blog roundup is ready to go out to our community of web editors tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The first training sessions on Planning and Writing Web Content and T4 take place on the 7 and 8 May.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for now. See you for our next update in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again \u2013 read on to find out what we\u2019ve been working on for the last two weeks. 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