Author: Jennifer Jones
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Changes to the Web CMS publish schedule
We’re updating our CMS publishing model to improve the efficiency and speed of the publishing process. Our current schedule publishes the whole site five times over 24 hours. We’re moving…
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Website redesign – what do you need to do?
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our website redesign preview session on 19 June. It was great to see so many people there and show you all what…
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Join us for a website redesign preview and Q&A
Thursday 19 June, 2pm to 3pm This summer we’ll be significantly updating the design of the University website to bring it in line visually with the rest of our established…
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Grand (digital) Designs: Building our new Digital Pattern Library CMS training
As we roll out our Digital Pattern Library (DPL) templates to more and more department websites, we’ve also needed to update our CMS training so that everyone using these templates…
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Branding our e-learning tool
To coincide with the launch of our new Web CMS training module, we created a new branded theme for the e-learning platform Xerte. We wanted something flexible and functional that…
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Expanding our CMS training toolbox
Here in Communications, it’s our job to train staff across the University to use the Web Content Management System and help them to maintain their respective sections of the University…
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How to tame your Content Management System
Sometimes, our Web Content Management System (CMS) can seem like a mysterious mythical creature. It can look a little complex when you’re less experienced in editing web content, but that’s…
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A new line of support for the CMS
There are currently over 800 users with access to our Web Content Management System (CMS). That’s a lot of people to support – whether troubleshooting a bit of content or…
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Shooting on site: photographing the Trevor Jones Studio
If you’ve seen a prospectus recently, chances are you’ve seen the work of our fantastic in-house photographer Alex Holland. He’s written a blog post covering photography for this year’s undergraduate…
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Course pages: a milestone five years in the making
Picture the scene. It’s 2014, on a chilly December afternoon. In a small office in the basement of Heslington Hall, the website publish has just finished, and with it, seven…