While there is an automated directory to list the People content on your website, the “People List” Content Block offered the ability to put people in a specific order. To replace this functionality, we have created a People pattern. People List as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for People […]
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Many websites use the “Explore Links” Content Block. This is the block that creates circles from images or icons, and displays text underneath that you then link to other destinations. Explore Links as a selection in the Content Blocks page editor: The dialog box for Explore Links: Replace this block with the Icons pattern “UM […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. In this month’s newsletter we focus on captions for video content and how it is useful for all visitors. Captions are required for videos with dialog The University of Maine System (UMS) […]
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UMS Human Resources will be launching a newly envisioned UMS Academy for compliance and other employee training needs later this summer. As of June 12, 2024 the existing UMS Academy resoruce is no longer available. The videos for this training are available in a playlist for reference. 2024–25 compliance training is expected to launch in […]
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Our Digital teams are working with UMS:IT to publish several new patterns for our Aug. 19 website update. New pattern category: News and Calendar To replace our old Article List and Event List content blocks we have a new “Post Picker” feature that works using the Shortcode block. Shortcodes are text commands surrounded by [square […]
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Read answers to frequently asked questions about the Content Blocks removal project Unpublished Content Blocks pages removed In order to focus efforts on current published content, any unpublished web page using the Content Blocks feature that had not been updated in 12 months was deleted. While recently created draft pages using Content Blocks were retained, […]
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We are excited to announce a reorganization of teams within the Division of Marketing & Communications! Amanda Lozier has accepted a new role, Director of Digital Experience, which has creative and brand oversight of the website. Together with Rosemary Lausier, this team will drive front-end design and user experience for the UMaine and UMaine Machias […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. In this month’s newsletter we focus on decisions that will inevitably come up as websites are reviewed to remove Content Blocks: what to do about old content that is not adequately accessible? […]
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UMS Human Resources will be launching a newly envisioned UMS Academy for compliance and other employee training needs later this summer. As of June 12, 2024 the existing UMS Academy resoruce is no longer available. 2024–25 compliance training is expected to launch on Aug. 1, 2024. New users added before August 1 will be expected […]
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Effective July 1, 2024, the “Classic editor” in WordPress will be shut down for pages and posts, and the Gutenberg editor will become the default for new content creation. If you have not yet taken our training in the Gutenberg editor, please refer to the schedule below and sign up for an upcoming class. Cooperative […]
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