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Over, roughly, the past three or four years the idea of all websites being served via HTTPS (HTTP TLS) has been a hot topic in the web administration and development worlds. In the past year the push has become even more forceful with Google making changes to it’s Chrome browser and changing it’s search ranking […]
Posts with Web CategoryHome » Web Implementing the CLA VBL colors consistently across all websites can, at times, be a challenge. One thing we’ve done is to create a Colors documentation page that lists each of the colors in the CLA VBL and provides the color values for each. However, referencing a documentation page each […]
In an effort to improve our communication and collaboration with Departments, Centers, and specifically Site Managers we’re now using two new tools. The first is teamwork.com, which is a project management tool, that we’re using internally to keep track of projects, task delegation, deadlines, and milestones, among other things. As we start new projects we’re inviting […]
Posts with Web CategoryHome » Web As of August 1, 2015 the Lamar server was retired from service by ACNS, including email, file storage, and websites. We’ve received questions from several concerned faculty within the College of Liberal Arts wondering where they can host their content now that Lamar is offline. The College of Liberal […]
As many of you already know we’re in the (long) process of moving all CLA websites on to our WordPress Multisite system. Thankfully we’re nearly finished with moving departmental websites and will then move on to program and center websites. One major benefit to this is that people profiles are all saved in a common […]
There are times when it’s necessary to include a link to a faculty or staff profile page from within another page’s content. Doing so helps visitors to be able to quickly and easily see more information about a given person within the department. However, in the past when you needed to link to a faculty […]
We’ve recently made some behind the scenes changes to the way a user search is handled within our WordPress Multisite system. If you’re a Site Manager for a CLA website on Multisite you can now search users by any of the following fields. First name Last name Username Email address (any portion of the email […]
When working with the WordPress Media Library, after a few dozen files have been uploaded, one quickly realizes there is a lack of organization and the ability to search for files becomes critical. Unfortunately, out-of-the-box, WordPress only searches for files in the library by their title rather than their filename. Thankfully WordPress sets the title to match the filename when […]
Within the College of Liberal Arts there are faculty and staff that work with multiple departments and thus need to be listed as a contact on multiple department and center website people directories. Thankfully, our WordPress Multisite system allows us to create a user profile for someone once and share that data across multiple sites. […]
After months of design, development, and coordinated efforts to build site content the new Theatre and Dance websites have launched, with Music soon to follow. The new websites offer many advances over the old websites; most notably: events management, photo rich design, social media feeds, and the ability for the departments to manage their own content. Not only […]
