Much of our work this week has been centred around the University’s brand launch on Tuesday 19 February, specifically the style changes that were deployed on Monday evening.
On Monday, we suspended publishes on the website from midday and migrated our style changes over from our test environment to our production instance of the CMS. After testing various pages in our CMS preview, we published the changes to the live website at around 9.30pm on Monday evening.
On Tuesday, Daniel (our Front End Developer) applied the brand style changes to other areas of the website, including our Events Calendar and site search.
In addition to the brand launch, we have also been continuing to work on developing the plans for the launch of our new website. This week we:
- Mapped out the process for rebuilding the site structure and rewriting content on the website
- Wireframed layouts for landing pages and standard content pages
- Created a (rather large) spreadsheet of all our website pages, collating information from various data sources. This spreadsheet shows us when pages were last updated, how much traffic they got and some detail on the content of the pages.
- Identified some key website analytics for our International section of the website, with a view to developing this in line with the University’s Internationalisation strategy.
- Continued development of our Student Life section and made updated to our accommodation pages and ongoing course page updates.
- Developed interactive Google Analytics dashboards to monitor website performance of key undergraduate course pages.
- Undertook some analysis of the data received from our course question forms.
- Proceeded with our card sorting exercise, running an initial round of recruitment of student volunteers to undertake the card sort.
- Tested the implementation of our new redirect system.
- Created documentation for a new programmable layout that automatically creates a slideshow from a folder in the media library.
