Category Archives: News

Launch of the new American Studies website

Dear Web Publishers,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new American Studies website. It follows a similar philosophy to the recently announced Governance website and offers an improved site navigation and webpage designs making use of callouts heavily in both the sites colours and the default grey colour.

Please visit the site at http://www.kent.ac.uk/amst to see the finished product.

Please do not forget to update your links in printed media and on your websites.

Launch of new Governance website

Dear Web Publishers,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Governance website which will replace CENSEC. The website has been completely restructured from the ground up to make it easier to navigate and find the information that a user may need. It also makes use of some of the latest snippets and adopts a simpler, minimalist content area design to ensure that content is put front and centre.

Please visit the site at http://www.kent.ac.uk/governance to see the finished website.

Please do not forget to update your links in printed media and on your websites and provide any feedback to the department using the contact form

Service interruption to KentBlogs and NewsBlogs service

Dear web publishers,

The WordPress blogging platform will be undergoing an update on Tuesday 17th December which will improve the user interface for the administration panel. A small amount of disruption is expected between 9am and 10am.

This will affect all users that use KentBlogs and the users of the News blogs publishing solution for their departmental website.

More information can be found on the WordPress website.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Best Wishes

Web Consultancy and Solutions
Requirements and Solutions
Information Services
websupport@kent.ac.uk
http://www.kent.ac.uk/web/
01227 (82)4851

Admissions FAQ link change

Dear Web Publishers,

Please note that the Admissions FAQ’s will be moving to a new set of webpages early next week

http://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/faq.html will soon live at the following webpage:
https://esd.kent.ac.uk/aspx_helpdesk/faqs.aspx?open=faqs&cctc=KENT&UTYP=APP

We advise all web publishers to update any links that they may have to go to the new address. Please note though that a redirect will be put in place if any links have been missed.

Best Wishes

Web Consultancy and Solutions
Requirements and Solutions
Information Services
websupport@kent.ac.uk
http://www.kent.ac.uk/web/
01227 (82)4851

New CHSS website is now live

Dear Web Publishers,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new CHSS website. The website makes use of a variety of the latest snippets including case studies, staff profiles and now a blog which will be used for current news and information on the department. It has also undergone a complete restructure to make information easier to find and easier to maintain by reducing the number of pages considerably.

Please visit the site at www.kent.ac.uk/chss/ to see the finished product and the range of work that CHSS are doing.

Please do not forget to update your links in printed media and on your websites.

Kind regards,
Websupport

New Wellbeing site has gone live

Dear Web Publishers,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Wellbeing website, replacing the Counselling website. The website makes use of a variety of snippets, keeping people engaged, and has had a fresh colour scheme implemented to resemble tranquillity. To add, there is now a blog which will be used for current news and information on the department.

Please visit the site at http://www.kent.ac.uk/wellbeing/ to see the finished product and the range of support Student Support has to offer.

Please do not forget to update your links in printed media and on your websites.

Kind regards,
Websupport

New Student Support site has gone live

Dear Web Publishers,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Student Support website, the website has replaced the Disability and Dyslexia Support Service (DDSS). The new website offers students an easier way to find the help they want, by using a variety of snippets. The snippets make organising important information, look tidy and inviting to read.

Please visit the site at http://www.kent.ac.uk/studentsupport/ to see the finished product and the range of support Student Support has to offer.

Please do not forget to update your links in printed media and your websites.

Kind regards,
Websupport

Release notes: 5th September 2013

Dear web publishers

The latest codebase has been rolled out to the live webserver. We have submitted quite a few fixes and improvements to the web publisher and user experience. If you have any questions at all regarding these fixes please feel free to contact websupport@kent.ac.uk

Kind regards,

Web Solutions

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Template

  • Menu bug fixes

Snippets:

  •  File list snippet:  Displays spaces in browser view when there is a hyphen in the filename
  • Mini staff profiles summary: now shows the job title by default rather than introduction blurb
  • Case studies summary: title of the snippet is now optional
  • Carousel : alt tags now editable for each carousel image
  • Call to Action: general bug fixes to aesthetics and alt tags now editable

Configuration tool:

  • Ability to add Google Analytics account number in the simplified view for Chronos

Dreamweaver views:

  • General improvements to some Chronobuttons in dreamweaver

Launch of the new University of Kent, Paris website

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Paris website which was developed specifically for the University of Kent, Paris campus to promote the range of modules they have available for students and provide any information a student could need to know about living in Paris for the duration of the modules.

The new Paris website took inspiration from the current Brussels website, but added its own twist, taking full advantage of the wide variety of snippets that are available at publishers disposal to lay out the information in a clear and organised manner, also aided with vast amount of beautiful imagery.

Please visit the site at http://www.kent.ac.uk/paris/ to see the finished product and the range of services the Paris campus has to offer.

2013-06-14 Updates to Pantheon and Chronos

Dear publishers,

The latest version of Pantheon and the code base has been rolled out to the server. We have made substantial improvements to a wide range of issues by fixing bugs and introducing some new functionality. Please see the release notes below.

Kind regards,

Luca Macis

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Snippet pack updates

  • Video snippet: Any videos stored on the Chicken server can be displayed using the video snippet rather than going into code view in Dreamweaver
  • General bug fixes

New functions

  • Grid system: development of a new grid system to ensure consistency when creating media rich home pages. Please contact web support to organise a consultation for moving your homepage to the new system or if you would like a new homepage designed

Bug fixes (Chronos)

  • Call to action: The header has been changed from a h2 to a h1. Headers are no longer compulsory
  • Carousel: Headers can now be in italics
  • EventsCalendar: Show end date of event if it spans multiple days. Custom filtering of tags has been reintroduced.
  • GalleryV2: reliability improvements.
  • Imagecontent: Wraps around it’s own content more reliably
  • Show hides: Improved handling when a show hide spans over 1 line. It is still recommended show hides only have 1 line (please see best practice workshop)
  • Social media links: Added tumblr icon
  • Dreamweaver view: updated width of content area for easier design of webpages

Theme and flavour fixes

  • Arts: Included support for new grid system
  • Arts: Added news summary support
  • Dice: Fixed an issue with the DICE header
  • Gulbenkian: Fixed a bug preventing the Gulbenkian RSS news being displayed correctly
  • Teeme: Updated the Teeme map