Here in the Division of Marketing and Communications, our Visual Media team is capturing the vibrant campus with new photography every week. Our archive of photography is available for use on the website, using a web-based tool you can search for images and request them from um.visualmedia@maine.edu. When you cannot find an applicable image to […]
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The University of Maine System has recently updated online guidance for Digital Content Management. Their writing for the web basics is a wonderful complement to our own user guide for UMaine websites, and we recommend reviewing this new site for helpful advice on content creation. Review the University of Maine System Writing for the Web Basics
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Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. Icons are an effective way to present options and features on your web pages to reach a broader audience. Label your icons Just as images on a website should be given text alternatives for web accessibility, icons should be accompanied by visible labels […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. With videos published to the campus websites, transcripts should be created and offered alongside the video. For many popular services (including campus systems such as Brightspace), transcriptions and closed captioning can be created automatically. While […]
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(Portions of this item originally appeared in our November 2018 newsletter) Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy.This month, we focus on email, and pitfalls to avoid when […]
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Due to the security risks associated with collecting and storing user data, website business owners should carefully consider how they use web forms. The University of Maine System Web Technologies Group has published guidance that explains the options available to content editors using WordPress, the content management system used for most public University of Maine System […]
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Do you have students who will be creating a website as part of a team project or capstone? If the resulting website will become a resource for public use, it is important that this content is maintained within our campus WordPress environment and not a Google Site or externally-hosted domain. Before you get started, consider using […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on tools that create graphics for social media, such as Canva. Creating graphics with text embedded Social […]
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In our October newsletter we offered instructions to add Kaltura videos to your webpages. What about YouTube, Vimeo, and other websites where videos are published? The good news is that adding videos from other services is even simpler. Using oembed When embedding a video from YouTube or Vimeo, the website ‘oembed’ feature can be used if […]
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Do you receive unhelpful spam from your web forms? While there have been tools available that attempt to thwart the automated form submission robots that are responsible for this, such options have introduced barriers to visitors that rely on assistive technology. For this reason we had not allowed for the use of reCAPTCHA (a popular […]
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