Category: Blog
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Annual updates and web hygiene fixes – November 26 update
The Student Recruitment Web Team has been busy working on a number of projects since joining the University. We’ve already done our introduction post, but here is a look behind…
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Introducing the Student Recruitment Web Team
In higher education, a university website is rarely static, it’s our primary digital front door, open 24/7 to prospective students, parents and international applicants from around the world. As the…
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Introducing our student recruitment web optimisation project
As everyone across our Communications and Marketing teams is very aware, we are now well underway with a student recruitment web optimisation project. This slightly belated post is to introduce…
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Improving our student support and wellbeing web pages
We’re pleased to announce that phase 1 of our student support and wellbeing web rebuild is now live at york.ac.uk/students/support/.
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Digital Platforms and Developments August/September 2026 update
Another bumper update covering what we’ve been up to in August and September, where we’ve been getting going with lots of pieces of work that will help improve the digital…
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Content Design team round up: August and Sept 2026
Here’s our end-of-summer updates, including student support and wellbeing pages, HR web usage stats, interdisciplinary centre web rebuilds and more.
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Digital Platforms and Developments June/July 2026 update
In the last couple of months we’ve been: getting ready for Clearing; improving our website search; changing the CMS publish schedule; filtering out AI bots and lots more.
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Content Design team round up: June and July 2026
Here’s what we’ve been up to over the past couple of sunny summer months.
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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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Digital Platforms and Developments May 2026 update
New blog theme goes live, staff listings for interdisciplinary centres, replacing search with a visible input, ‘peaks and potholes’ and more