Cascade

Re-locating existing content within new structure
Creating home page buttons with links
Sent email to LS,MH requesting button link clarification

Attended workshop "Adding news, social media and events to your UVic website workshop" offered by communications and marketing.

Cascade English website changes (week of Nov. 17-21)

HOME:
-disabled viewing of text "section II", "profiles"
-removed "Latest news" item

FACULTY AND STAFF primary
- changed primary (Faculty and staff) to PEOPLE

Faculty directory: now reads Regular faculty
Other faculty : " " Sessional instructors
Staff directory : " " Staff

PEOPLE:
- created Emeritus folder; created and set up index page

Left navigation:
- order changed to: Regular faculty, Sessional instructors, Staff, Post docs and term, Emeritus, Employment opportunities
- added new folder "Emeritus"

Staff:
- index page now contains correct staff information

Events tab now displayed before News tab
English Events announced only - not the entire UVic events

Added 3rd button (possible careers) to home page
Honour Program - changed to Honours Program
Under Future students - added new item "Academic writing requirement"

Update:
- English Dept. requested a "new structure" (no sub-primaries; will use primaries and secondaries with sub-secondaries now)
- have re-built the Cascade site indicating new structure as well as current structure for comparison; sent email with new structure proposal for review to English Dept.
- Eng. Dept reviewed proposed new site structure and EGW (Eng. Dept.) confirmed we are to use the new structure now

Next steps:
- SA,JN: reviewed the site; made list of content to be relocated within new structure
- JN: currently moving content to appropriate sections within the new structure; updating links

Myself and SA met with HT,IG (G&S)to review site.

Changes:
Left navigation: minor change to names
Right navigation: created social media; YouTube info.TBA

Correspondence:
Emailed dept. re site updates; site ready for IG to input content

Received request from SA (Rls St) to update news items and archive
old news item.
Completed task; re-published site; sent confirmation email to SA

Assisted SB (PHIL) with editing undergraduate/courses/index page in Cascade by adding 2nd table to page. SB awaiting new content; will insert new content; publish page/site when completed.

Assisted SA (RelSt) with correcting links on program-committee/index page

Completed the Cascade build out this week and sent email to G&S dept.

Next step:
HT,IG (G&S) review site only; no edits or content inputted

Next meeting:
- (G&S) not available to meet until after end of September
- (G&S) will contact us when ready to set meeting date

I've written bash scripts to run linkchecker against the French, History and Women's Studies sites, and then XSLT the results into a human-friendly web page. There's a little more cleanup to do, I think (filtering out Skype links, possibly), but I think the results are a good replacement for the link checking that Comunications used to do, and initial feedback from the department folks is positive..

Uni 101 site wanted no left column. I used the administration/site configuration and tried to set the block for 07-secondary-navigation to "no block", but when I submitted that change, the configuration appeared not to be updated (i.e. the path to the block still appeared there) and the page itself still allocated space on the left side.

Wrote to JS, and she said she set 07-secondary-navigation and 08-quicklinks to "no block" and that generated the desired effect. (The site configuration now shows empty for those two content areas, and the actual page shows the main content area extending to the left edge.) I still don't understand what caused the behaviour I got. I did not set 08-quicklinks to "no block", so maybe failing to do that causes Cascade to ignore the fact that I did set 07-secondary-nav to "no block". I haven't tested that.

(reposted from entry accidentally posted to vacation blog)