Content Design team round-up: January 2026

Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been working on to kick off the new year.

Highlight of the month

Our revamped careers and employability page has had over 5,000 page views since it went live in September. This means total page views more than doubled compared to the three predecessor pages combined (5,320 vs. 2,341).

Ongoing web content projects

HR web migration: Our primary focus remains the migration of the HR site from Dreamweaver to the Web CMS.

• Major milestone: The sitemap exercise is almost complete, marking a massive step forward for the project.
• Automation: Our Digital team has built an impressive tool to automate parts of the migration process, saving significant manual effort.
• Next steps: We have agreed on a high-level timeline and are arranging a briefing session with HR colleagues in February, followed by sitemap sign-off meetings.

Other projects in the mix

• IT web rebuild: Project complete! We’ve shared the final report and close-out communications with IT Services. In total, we streamlined ~700 pages down by nearly 50% for a fresher, leaner, more user-focused web presence.
• Student support web pages: We’re setting up stakeholder interviews with various teams to gather insights on improving the user experience for students.
• Interdisciplinary centres: We’ve moved into the next stage of this project, holding a kick-off meeting with the Heads of Faculty Marketing and Recruitment. We’ve also developed a template site and onboarding slides for the Faculty Spokes team to use at meetings with first centres next month.
• Staff research pages discovery work: We’ve been writing up findings from a content audit, undertaking competitor analysis and reviewing Analytics and search data for the research pages in the staff branch.
• Philosophy equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) page: We’ve moved the project from the drafting stage into the CMS and have shared the revised version with the Department for review.

New projects

• Computer Science CPD: We’ve drafted a prototype for CPD course pages in our Digital Pattern Library templates and shared it with the Department for feedback.
• Content strategy maturity: We’re assessing the University’s main website using Picklejar’s 10 pillars of content strategy framework to identify areas for improvement and growth.

BAU and content maintenance

• Style guide A-Z: We’ve completed our annual review, adding minor updates and new entries to keep our house style current.
• About us pages: We’ve completed a first-pass check of three core pages. Next, we’ll collaborate with subject matter experts on factual amendments. Pages in scope are:
  • About the University
  • Rankings, awards and achievements
  • Global York