Digital team sprint notes 5 - 18 April
20 April, 2016This post was originally published on The University of Bath's Web Services Blog.
This was an important sprint for us, as the first sections to be published with the new CMS went live.
Our intention now is to continue delivering sections with the new CMS on a regular basis, and we will use our fortnightly sprint notes to highlight these.
What we've delivered in the last two weeks
- The text colour of the supervisor availability information in Academic Profiles was changed to make it easier to read
- Changing the status of a Content Item from Published to Draft no longer makes it disappear from filtered lists
- We made a number of backend changes to ensure everything is working smoothly from www.bath.ac.uk as well as beta.bath.ac.uk
- We improved the tool which makes sure that all the old web addresses for a section which has moved to the new CMS redirect to the correct location
- The Guide for using images on the website has been updated to recommend new image size and ratios to make it easier for editors to find and create new images
- Caching is now enabled across all of www.bath.ac.uk to reduce the amount of time it takes to load pages
- We've produced the first piece of standardised documentation on the visual components which makes up the new site templates
- We carried out an A/B test with academics at the University of Bristol to help us identify improvements to the layout of our Person Profile items - we're very grateful to our colleagues there for helping us out!
- The use of colour in the editing screens is now more consistent
- Filtered lists are now always updated correctly when the title of a content item (and its URL) is changed
- We changed our configuration of Archive It so that it no longer automatically retrieves page outside of the www.bath.ac.uk domain
- We held a user story planning session with members of the Student Recruitment Editorial Group to help support creating a content marketing plan
What we're going to do in the next two weeks
- Produce the second alpha of a new tool for publishing University courses to the website - Course Publisher
- Publish the new Digital Marketing & Communications and Student Services sections
- Start working with Research & Innovation Services to transition their section to the new CMS
- Continue work with Marketing and Communications to transition their content
- Fix a number of small inconsistencies and problems across both www.bath.ac.uk and the CMS