A quick update on the Web Publishing Framework project (CMS replacement)
Following our official selection of Terminal 4 as the University’s replacement CMS, Legal Services and IT Services have reviewed the contract provided by Terminal 4 and are in the process of updating...
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More updates: User experience gathers pace
The User Experience Design (UXD) strand of the Web publishing framework project is now well under way. Pure Usability have been working hard over the past couple of months, gathering insights into how...
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New maps
After many, many deliberations we finally completed another phase of our maps project (phase one was the maps and travel website). This phase covered two areas: the Google map and a new map graphic for...
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Using the new templates
Earlier this year a set of template elements were designed by the Web Editor team for use on homepages and content pages. The aim of this is to make it easier to create fully-designed areas (eg...
View Article“Don’t keep people on webpages”
Here is a useful, recent article by Gerry McGovern, entitled Help people do things, don’t keep them on webpages. It discusses the value of planning and writing your web content specifically to help...
View ArticleUpdate on the Web Publishing (CMS) Project
The contract with Terminal 4 has been agreed and signed. A temporary instance of the T4 CMS has been installed pending wider technical architecture decisions within IT Services. The next stages will be...
View ArticleUpdate on the Web Publishing (CMS) Project – November 2011
Technical IT Services have identified a group of staff who will be the new web CMS development team, managed by Mark Ellingsen. So far the team have been setting up a temporary, test version of the new...
View ArticleUpdate on the CMS Project – February 2012
Content migration schedule The migration of the University of Bristol web content will take place over a number of phases, named as Phase 1.1, Phase 1.2, Phase 2 and Phase 3. An initial indication of...
View ArticleNew live statistics page
University web traffic We are often asked how much traffic visits the University website; how many ‘hits’ we get, how big it is etc. With this in mind we have put together a handy web statistics page...
View ArticleUpdate on CMS/UXD project
As you are aware, work has been carried out through workshops and a number of audience research activities to develop a number of evolutionary steps, including a new information architecture, new...
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