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. Recently the University of Maine System licensed a new accessibility tool, GrackleDocs. It is available to everyone from the “Add-ons” menu when editing […]
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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 feature accessibility events from the 2021 WP Campus conference. Get real: authentically reinforcing diversity, equity and inclusion through your digital marketing When your […]
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With our staffing reduced, we are working to better streamline our support requests going forward. Our “Request website services” form has been updated to include support requests in addition to website and account requests. Please use this form going forward, as it will help us gather information needed for website support. Request website services form
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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 while these attempts are unsuccessful, the volume of these incidents has an impact on the overall performance of our website. In an effort […]
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Do you know how much traffic your website receives? Have you looked at Google Analytics for your website and don’t know where to start? Digital Communications can create interactive data reports or dashboards with your website’s data using Google Data Studio. During the workshop we will work with your website to create filterable dashboards to […]
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Our UMS IT developers have been hard at work making some important updates to our website in 2021, and this month we roll out two new features: People list content block The People list content block now allows for adding more people to a single list. The limit had previously been 25 people per list, […]
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Article list content block The article list content block now offers more UMaine News categorization options: University News academic areas This categorization option allows you to only display news articles for a particular college, as well as Honors College and Graduate School. University News regions This categorization option allows for display of news articles of […]
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Slider content block The slider content block now has a pair of options. Display a random slide, and restrict to only a single slide. Between the two, there are several uses for this feature: Randomize on, single-slide off If you want multiple features in the slider, randomizing where the slider starts will help change up […]
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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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The UMaine website design allows for site navigation as a horizontal bar below your website header title and image. This is sufficient for many sites, but larger websites do need “sub-section” navigation for better usability. To date, this has been accomplished using the sidebar template on pages where a secondary menu can appear. Our Digital Communications […]
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