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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Pin multiple videos Previously only one video could be “pinned” at a time in the Zoom interface. A new accessibility feature allows for pinning multiple videos in the interface, which is helpful to keep a sign language interpreter on screen throughout a video. More information is available on Zoom’s website. Re-arrange videos in gallery view Gallery […]
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We now offer a “shortcode” for use in the text editor which allows for a shaded box treatment, with the headline in a blue bar across its top. Adding a shaded box treatment Here is an example of this shortcode “around” the text to give it a shaded box display: Headline appears here] Text appears […]
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Our university websites have made use of Google Analytics for information on web site visitors and the pages they view for some time. This is configured in the “Insights” section of the WordPress dashboard, but aside from adding the proper Google Analtyics code, there is not much to “see” within WordPress itself. We now offer […]
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These training topics are available for our Friday consultations on request, and can be held in our conference room or remotely via zoom videoconferencing. UMaine Map Training If you need to depict points of interest on campus, across the state, or around the globe, our UMaine map feature is worth exploring. In this training you will […]
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Digital Communications now has office hours! Two 1-hour time slots are available every Friday afternoon at 1:30 and 2:30. If you are interested in a website consultation on any of our training topics, or simply want to review your website and brainstorm improvements, please email us at um.weboffice@maine.edu and we will work together to find a convenient […]
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