April 18th, 2011
Featurettes — why use them?
Featurettes complement page content and maximize page impact by providing information and personalization. Use featurettes to: advertise upcoming events spotlight related departments alert visitors to new programs highlight individual and group successes tell the “story” of your group, department, program or college Learn how to place existing featurettes and how to create and modify new ones by attending a “Working with Featurettes” session. The next scheduled session is Tuesday, April 26, 2011 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in the Library Lab. PREREQUISITE: working knowledge of basic Ingeniux skills. Please let me know if you would like to attend.
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No CommentsJuly 13th, 2009
Ingeniux 6.0 – What’s New
GENERAL FUNCTIONALITY You can use Ingeniux 6.0 on a PC or Mac using Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7, and 8), Firefox (versions 2 and 3), and Safari (version 3). To log in, use your myBucknell user id and myBucknell password. (You no longer need Bucknell\ or @bucknell.edu.) The main toolbar looks like this: The “Go to” feature can now find pages by page number (x19) or page name (Home). You now have a back and forward button to navigate through the pages you’ve recently accessed. Your initial page view may be different. If you are editing the page or the [...]
July 1st, 2009
Ready for a new version of Ingeniux?
We are upgrading the Ingeniux Web Content Management System (WCM) to version 6.0. When: The WCM will be unavailable from 8:00 am on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 thru 8:00 am on Monday, July 13, 2009. As soon as the new software is in place, we’ll send out a message letting you know you are welcome to login. What you’ll need to know the first time you login to Ingeniux 6.0: You can run Ingeniux 6.0 from your pc or Mac using Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7, and 8), Firefox (versions 2 and 3), and Safari (version 3). The Ingeniux 6.0 [...]
June 2nd, 2008
Web Site Design Sneak Preview: June 4, 2008
In my last update, we anticipated sharing a preview of the new website design by the end of the semester. Now that we’ve made it through Commencement and Reunion (which is what we really mean by “end of the semester), we are ready now to share the design. Fastspot (our design partner) visited campus on April 4 with three design concepts. As a result of this presentation, the Web Design Advisory Group recommended a clear direction, and since then we’ve been refining and enhancing the design, exploring how the navigation will work, what the sub-pages will look like, and testing [...]
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April 2nd, 2008
Web Site Redesign Updates: April 2, 2008
Behind the Scenes Think “web site redesign” and most of us probably think visually — images, colors, fonts, layout — all the elements that make a web site sing. In truth, much of the work goes on behind the scenes. Before you can build a house, you must draw up detailed blueprints, prepare the ground, lay the foundation. The same holds true for a web site So here’s what we’ve been doing “behind the scenes.” The Foundation In collaboration with Fastspot (our web design partner) and the Web Advisory Group, here’s what we’ve been doing: Discovering. In order for Fastspot [...]
March 28th, 2007
What’s New in 5.2?
We will be upgrading the Ingeniux Web Content Management software on Friday, March 30. This means the WCM will be unavailable from noon till 2:00 p.m. After the upgrade, the next time that you log-in to the WCM, you will be prompted to dowload the software (the same as the very first time you used the WCM). Click on the yellow bar and chose “Install ActiveX Control” and then accept all the default settings, chosing “next” and “install” as prompted. On Wednesday, April 4, 10:30-11:30 we will host a Beyond the Basics session in the Library Lab (lower level 1, [...]
December 18th, 2006
Web Pages are Like Plants
Web pages are always evolving. They morph, grow, shrink. New pictures, new content, new sub-pages. The possibilities are endless. But if no one is updating your web page, it grows stale, and pretty soon, no one will bother viewing your page. Web pages need to be tended to, just like plants. Without water, your plants will wither and turn brown. But if you give your plants the right amount of water and sunlight, new growth appears. Tend to your web pages, and new visitors will come. So if your answer to the question: "Who is updaing your web pages" is [...]
December 15th, 2006
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Now that the project of migrating our website into a new Web Content Management system is behind us, I’ve found myself thinking back to the start of the project and wondering what we could have done differently. With my perfect 20/20 hindsight vision, I offer this list of lessons learned for those of you whole might be undetaking a similar project: Demos, Demos, and More Demos. During the product demos, ask for real demonstrations of all features that matter to you. Not screen shots, not verbal reassurances that something will work, not a promise that the next release will be [...]
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September 15th, 2006
Web Migration Update
To the Campus Community: We are pleased to announce that the website migration should be completed sometime within the next two weeks. Thank you for your extended patience and understanding, and a special thank you to the many ISR, Communications, and Administrative Services staff who volunteered their time to help us complete this major project. After such a longwait, it might seem like a let down when the website looks almost exactly the same, but getting everything to look as it did was actually our goal. This was not a site redesign, but a change in the tool that we [...]
April 7th, 2006
What’s on Your Internet?
Deciding what belongs on your internet (your public facing website) and what is better placed on your intranet (your organization’s internal website) seems like ano-brainer. It’s the same as determining what you would tell a stranger compared to what you would tell your sister or your best friend. Nothing tricky about that, right? Then why are so many websites filled with material that the general public neither cares about or needs to know? Why can the casual visitor to a university website find handbooks, forms and policies that are relevant only to the business of living, learning and working on [...]