Hello Web Authors and Content Owners, One of the common mistakes we are seeing as we comb through the site is this: Text is being placed inside image files as opposed to using Cascade’s text fields. This is a problem for a number of reasons: If alt tags are not properly applied to your
Chapman University Community, Great news! The beta.chapman.edu site has been running since March 8, and we’re ready to share it with you now! Take a stroll through the site and send us your input, suggestions, and catches before the site goes live to the world. This site, even in its beta form, represents months of
Hello Web Writers / Content Owners / Content Migrators, Congratulations! We’re in the home stretch, and things are looking up. Thank you for all your hard work and support over the last few months. Now it’s time for one last push. With your help, I’m sure we can reach the university’s web goals. Writers, content
Dear Web Author, We are excited to announce the first chapter of training for Chapman’s new content management system (CMS): Cascade Server by Hannon Hill. This product is a significant improvement to the current CMS (Active Campus) and we anticipate you will enjoy editing pages more in this new system. Barkley REI, our consultant firm
Dear Colleagues: With the start of the new year, we’re beginning the final countdown to the complete launch of the university’s new website. As you might recall, our goal is to migrate from “old site” to “new site” in early March, and that looming deadline has us all working at top speed. Getting updated content
Hello WAC, I just wanted to take a quick minute to thank you all for the hard work this far. We are all excited about Chapman’s new website. It is more difficult to get excited about the work that must go into a new website. In months to come, we will be writing content, locating
Occasionally we will hear rumors regarding the web overhaul that we want to ‘set straight.’ This blog will serve as a great way to do that, so please feel free to ask questions here. The first rumor that I’d like to dispel is: “after the new website is delivered, we will no longer have PIO’s.” I’m happy to inform
With the new website under construction, what type of energy should you be putting into your existing chapman.edu pages? Should you change your old site? The short answer is “no…” with a “but.” NO: We don’t want to re-design sites, change the look or feel of pages, or make other extensive alterations at this point.