Historically, our support for the website needs of faculty has included two solutions: A faculty bio page within a college, school or unit website A lab site to contain the work done by a faculty member alongside students Some faculty have in the past found that their web needs fall between these two solutions; they […]
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The UMaine website design— ‘theme’ in WordPress terms— is complex, and there are known issues you may encounter: Importing events into website calendar We license a “content aggregator” feature for our events calendar software, which works to import events in a shared Google calendar as event web pages you may list in a umaine.edu calendar […]
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We are rolling out improvements to the UMaine map feature on Wednesday, January 16. When editing an individual map point, you can now increase or decrease the zoom level of the map. Display of multiple map points in a category remains unchanged.
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The University of Maine System has provided a website tool to aid in the important task of managing the quality and accessibility of web content. Monsido has been scanning UMaine websites, and interactive reports are now available: Quality Control: Identify broken links Search Optimization: Find duplicate page titles Web Accessibility: List images that need alt […]
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When the current generation of UMaine websites launched in 2015, we chose to adopt a set of features (a “plugin” in WordPress terms) that included social sharing buttons for posts. As an administrator for your site, you may have noticed a link in your dashboard for “Jetpack” that includes many features that can be enabled for a […]
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Our most recent new feature: maps for your websites. If you need to depict points of interest on campus, across the state, or around the globe, our new map feature is worth exploring: Create individual map points for any address or map coordinates Categorize map points to display several points of interest together in a […]
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The UMaine website design— ‘theme’ in WordPress terms— is complex, and there are known issues you may encounter: Scheduling feature does not work There is a built-in feature in WordPress where you can create a post or page, and schedule it to publish at a date/time in the future. The feature utilizes a scheduled task […]
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As you may know, UMaine retired the FirstClass system in May of this year. This means that every email address that ended with @umit.maine.edu will eventually stop working. Please take a look at your website for published email addresses that may need to be updated. You can use the website search feature to help— navigate […]
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Last semester we debuted a new content block for menus. This will allow you to add links to a web page in one of several menu formats: Bulleted list of links Vertical menu, similar to the sidebar menus Button bar menu, similar to the “call to action” widget If you have used the custom menu […]
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We have an update to the Event List content block that may be of interest to sites using our event calendar feature. The “List Type” options have been updated to allow for specifying categories of events on any calendar. Previously one could only select an event category from the campus-wide UMaine Calendar site. Here is how […]
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