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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Do you have upcoming events to publicize online? There is an event calendar feature available on all our websites, and we offer training in using this feature to create event listings (Beyond the Basics, see below for upcoming dates.) Adding your event in this manner will help it to be identified as an event page […]
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(this information originally appeared in our August 2020 newsletter) If you are uploading documents such as PDFs to your website, you should be using our Resources feature — it is intended for files that are linked across your website and can be used in email communications. Refer to our user guide for specific instructions on using the […]
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In July 2021, Google made an important security update to videos hosted on Youtube. Any videos that were uploaded prior to 2017 yet marked “unlisted” are now marked “private.” If you have videos or playlists dating back further than the past four years, we recommend checking your website where the video is linked or embedded. […]
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