{"id":836,"date":"2015-07-22T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=836"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:26:20","slug":"team-update-9-22-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/07\/22\/team-update-9-22-july-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Team update: 9 \u2013 22 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time again to find out what we\u2019ve been up to over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>Go Mobile programme<\/h2>\n<p>Work continues on the <strong>Undergraduate migration project<\/strong> &#8211; with more research into:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>content types and requirements,<\/li>\n<li>content design on course profiles and<\/li>\n<li>auditing of how the site works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of planning (and work) ahead for both the Web Team and Undergraduate marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Emma C has been working with the editor from the Information for Schools and Colleges website. She\u2019s had her training and is now getting stuck in to editing the site in T4.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re putting the final touches to the Go Mobile demo site\u00a0after moving it into T4. We&#8217;ll use it to test the go live process over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>Design and technical developments<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve built a range of boxes to create the layouts for home pages and landing pages.<\/p>\n<p>Different combinations of columns, colours and content will give each website a unique look. We\u2019ve started applying the layouts to sites in T4 and they\u2019re looking good!<\/p>\n<p>This latest addition completes the major set of components needed to build most websites.<\/p>\n<h2>Training and support<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Go-Mobile<\/strong> &#8211; we delivered two-days of training for eager editors from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketing and Student Recruitment<\/li>\n<li>Social Renewal<\/li>\n<li>Biology<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Neuroscience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re continuing to get great feedback from the sessions &#8211; one editor said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve found myself thinking about the website in a completely different way!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anne and Emma C also ran a drop-in session for Go Mobile editors.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve received <strong>27 support requests<\/strong> through the NU Service Helpdesk and <strong>have resolved 14<\/strong> <strong>of them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Campaigns and web developments<\/h2>\n<p>That business as usual is still coming in\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Linda provided advice to HR on how they can improve their web content. They are planning a review and revamp of their core content.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/clearing\/\">Clearing website<\/a> has bee re-launched with a new look and feel. The campaign design runs through the website and social media activity.<\/p>\n<p>Linda&#8217;s written a couple of blog entries around improving your calls to action. Coming up in the next week or so &#8211; &#8216;why you shouldn\u2019t use \u2018click here\u2019 in your text&#8217;; and &#8216;5 ways to improve your calls to action&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>new international pages<\/strong> went live on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/pre-arrival\/\">Pre-Arrival website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa has been looking at the analytics for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/openday\/\">Open Day website<\/a> to help inform developments for the new site in the Go Mobile programme. To learn about her findings read her post <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/category\/analytics\/\">Improving Web Content with help from Google Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Plans for the next few weeks<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s holiday time, so the team will be running at reduced capacity for the next few weeks \u2013 but there\u2019s still plenty to do.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re running\u00a0<strong>weekly Go Mobile drop-in sessions<\/strong> from now until the end of August. These sessions will support editors who are working on sites in T4 CMS, as part of the migration project.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a Contribute workshop scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time again to find out what we\u2019ve been up to over the past couple of weeks. Go Mobile programme Work continues on the Undergraduate migration project &#8211; with more research into: content types and requirements, content design on course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/07\/22\/team-update-9-22-july-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-836","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\/836","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\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}