Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and Digital Communications has been increasing efforts to improve the accessibility of web content on umaine.edu. The term “accessibility” refers to our efforts to remove barriers that prevent access to websites by people who have a disability. This month, we acknowledge this can be an intimidating topic to […]
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PDF (Portable Document Format) files are a handy way to share documents that can be viewed, printed, and shared while preserving the original’s format. Most PDFs are created using office tools such as Google Docs or Microsoft Office, publishing software such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress, or as images from scanned documents using network-connected copy […]
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Content on your website should appear as text on your web pages in most circumstances. At the same time, there are legitimate reasons why a document needs to be uploaded to your site, and to list those documents we provide additional options. Using the built-in resource library We cover the basics of using the “Resource” […]
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We are rolling out improvements to the UMaine map feature on Wednesday, January 16. When editing an individual map point, you can now increase or decrease the zoom level of the map. Display of multiple map points in a category remains unchanged.
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Two new buttons have been developed for websites to provide a consistent visual encouraging potential students to begin the enrollment process: APPLY NOW REQUEST INFO If you are comfortable editing web page code in the “text” view of the WordPress editor, these instructions will help you add these buttons today. Please let us know […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and Digital Communications will be increasing our efforts to improve the accessibility of web content on umaine.edu in the coming year. The term “accessibility” refers to our efforts to remove barriers that prevent access to websites by people who have a disability. This month, we […]
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One of the content blocks we make available is a slider— a content area that allows for an image with a headline that links to something when clicked, complete with forward/back controls to “slide” additional images/headlines/links into view. Sliders (also known as carousels) are attention-getting, but ineffective for promoting multiple features— usability studies have shown […]
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Have you selected a page or post to edit, only to find that the edit screen is completely unrelated to the content you expected? This is an infrequent, but known issue with our WordPress theme. When this happens, you may notice that the “View page” or “View post” link in the toolbar will say “View […]
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While the UMaine website is designed to be used by anyone with a modern web browser regardless of whether they use a PC or Mac, the system we use to publish the website, WordPress, has features that work best in certain web browsers. In particular, we have found that users of PCs that have Internet […]
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Embedding a Google map into a web page that uses UMaine’s new web theme is easy, but it requires a small adjustment to the embed code. Get the embed code: 1. Go to Google maps. In the Search Google Maps text box, type in the address of the location you want to display on your […]
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