Spring semester is behind us, and many students have graduated and moved on. Now is a great time to review your website user list, and alert us to anyone who no longer needs access to your sites. Important: everyone should have their own account It can be tempting to share your user account login with […]
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The menu content block can be a handy page element to display a list of links in a button or list format, and is especially useful when that same set of links needs to be maintained across multiple pages. There is a known display issue with the menu content block’s “Blue horizontal buttons” display option […]
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Are you using QR codes to send visitors to your web pages? While these two-dimensional “matrix” barcodes have been around for decades, in 2023 most mobile phone cameras can identify a QR code and understand the information it contains. Digital Communications has received numerous requests and inquiries regarding QR codes in the last year, and […]
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Is your website helping you meet your goals? Do you want to make improvements, but do not know where to begin? We now offer “office hours” style website consultation sessions, where we can meet to focus on your content and brainstorm improvements that can be made. “Digital life coach” session This high level topic is […]
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In early November, we were made aware of at least two web forms that began receiving large quantities of spam submissions. We have some safeguards we can recommend for your web forms to avoid the spammers: the anti-spam honeypot and invisible reCAPTCHA. Anti-spam honeypot This is a feature available to all web forms 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. 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 article list content block is a great way to feature news and updates on your website. In 2021 we added several new options to this feature, allowing for more options to feature UMaine News on your website by academic area, region, or custom feed. The two options for this block that use the featured […]
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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. If your website has documents such as PDF, Word, Excel or Powerpoint files for download and viewing, those files must also abide by […]
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By default, any web form created on the UMaine and UMaine Machias websites have an email notification that will send a copy of each submission to a predefined address. These notifications can be useful for handling incoming requests. In order to make the most of your email notifications, we recommend the following: Decide who should […]
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Our first video captioning workshop was held last week on Nov. 10, thank you to all who attended, your questions were great. This is now available as a recording for those who were unable to attend the session. The Kaltura-hosted playback of this zoom recording offers controls that display either the main video or a […]
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