In early November, the UMaine and UMaine Machias websites were updated to include new features in support of our transition to the newer Gutenberg editor: Hiding page titles There is now a page option available to hide the default H2 heading on pages. If you primarily use our content blocks feature for advanced page layouts, […]
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For longtime readers, this originally appeared in our November 2018 newsletter. Email is an effective engagement tool— this newsletter, for example, has been well received and gives us opportunity to share our expertise in bite-sized, monthly updates. These days, emails can contain many of the same features as web pages, and therefore the same web […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we share guidance about links on your web pages. For longtime readers, this originally appeared in our March 2019 newsletter. How links work […]
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University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias websites will be updated to utilize Google Analytics version 4. While UMS IT has done the necessary work on our websites to accommodate this new code, the new Google Analytics software presents a new interface and capabilities that we are all familiarizing ourselves with. In the […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. Maine CITE is offering a free webinar in August, Creating Accessible Content. Here is their description of the webinar: Webinar: Creating Accessible Content Date: […]
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For over a decade, the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias websites have utilized Google Analytics to measure web traffic in many ways— in aggregate, it provides several types of information: Who is coming to our website? Geographic information, device information, primary language of the visitor, etc. How did they get here? Source information […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. Many times, the team here in Digital Communications are asked to place content on a website for the University of Maine, University of […]
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The University of Maine has a living, evolving campus and over the past several years there have been multiple name changes for buildings, organizations and administrative entities. This summer, we ask that website administrators review their content for references that may have become outdated over time. Here are some name changes we are aware of: […]
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The way that you set a page to be password protected has been changed effective June 9. You will notice the following changes when you are in the dashboard of a UMaine WordPress website: 1. There is a “Password Protection” column in the Pages and Posts screens on the dashboard. Password protected pages now have an icon […]
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Effective June 14, a VPN connection is now required for website editors to access the campus WordPress dashboard from outside the campus networks. As the most popular web content management system (WCMS), WordPress is a regular target for cyber threats. UMS IT has seen an uptick in attempts to login to our WordPress environment, and […]
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