The current design of umaine.edu launched at the start of the 2015 academic year, and introduced a solid platform that allowed for consistency in navigation yet offered flexibility to meet individual website needs. We have continued to expand upon the capabilities of our website over the last several years, introducing features such as online maps […]
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Over the course of this past year, Digital Communications has expanded our training topics, and we have become a heavy user of the Marketing and Communications conference room. While our WordPress basics trainings are regularly attended, more specialized sessions on search engine optimization, UMaine maps, and Monsido are more appropriate for on-demand consultations. Beginning October […]
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We are making some minor changes to content blocks that you may notice, revising the names of some blocks, and adjusting the naming of options for clarity and consistency across campuses. Functionality of content blocks should not change, if you notice anything working differently in October please let us know Bug fixes A longstanding bug in […]
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In early August, our campus WordPress environment was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (5.2.2). As detailed in our December newsletter, we will continue to utilize the “Classic editor” alongside our own content blocks feature for the foreseeable future. Over the coming year, we will be working with UMS IT to create a new […]
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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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