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Digital team sprint notes 22 March - 4 April

05 April, 2016

This post was originally published on The University of Bath's Web Services Blog.

What we've delivered in the last two weeks

  • Publishers can access the preview and published version of a content item from the top of the edit screen in the CMS
  • There is a new stripe at the top of published CMS pages linking to an explanation of what is changing on bath.ac.uk
  • We've made the spacing between different content sections on a page more consistent
  • When setting a Call to Action publishers can choose to add a URL, email address or telephone number
  • Discovered and fixed a publishing-breaking bug in one of the third-party libraries we use. As we said by email, sorry to our publishers for this 🙁
  • Improved our weekly analytics reports to include pages and sites linking to the wrong domains
  • Set up the infrastructure to allow us to build our Performance Platform
  • Made sure we don't archive third-party sites (like the BBC!) when we don't want to
  • Making sure the content managed by Student Services and Accommodation and Hospitality Services is ready for final review

What we're going to do in the next two weeks

Pending some final checks we'll be publishing our first pages to www.bath.ac.uk using our new templates.

We'll write more about this when it happens, but most of the team's work we have scheduled for the next two weeks revolves around making sure this happens smoothly and that all the old pages are redirected to their newer, better, equivalents.

In addition, we'll be:

  • Changing how we create our filterable lists of content to make sure they always include all relevant content
  • Review and improve our size and ratio guidance for images on bath.ac.uk
  • Running a first round of testing with academic colleagues from the University of Bristol
  • Transitioning content owned by Marketing and Communications to the new platform

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