redesigning lclark.edu

Content Management Systems

LiveWhale News and Tips

News and helpful tips are available online at this address:

http://www.lclark.edu/new_media/faq

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Coming soon: the LiveWhale Users Group

Now that we have launched LiveWhale, it is time to start a users group to share answers, ideas, support, etc. (like we had with Trillium). There will also be an associated list-serv available to any LiveWhale user in the Lewis & Clark College community.

If you are interested, send me an email:
grether@lclark.edu

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The Coming of LiveWhale!

So long, Trillium!  It was beautiful knowing you, but it’s time to move on.  The Web has changed too much (especially concerning issues like accessibility) for Lewis & Clark not to change too.

Yes, it’s time for a new content management system to go with our newly designed website.  At the end of the day this June 8, they are both arriving here. Exciting!

For some of you, LiveWhale has already arrived and you are already hard at work getting your new, improved site ship-shape.  For others, you will turn on your computer June 9 to find a new look, new functions, old things in new places, new calendars, new search, new URLs… seemingly a new everything.

Not everything will be new, however, as we have a pretty massive website and there just isn’t enough time to get to all the deeper-level pages right now.  So when you click around and stumble on an old, Trillium-based page, understand that piece by piece, step by step, the content is migrating over to the new Lewis & Clark.

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Writing for the Web

Did you know that writing for the web requires a different approach than writing for other venues? As part of our redesign, WhiteWhale created a writing guide that tackles the two toughest issues: basic writing for the web and specific notes about writing for/about Lewis & Clark. It’s based on general rules on good writing for the web and PubCom’s own style guide. Download it. Read it. Use it.

Also published: https://media.zendesk.com/forums/22045/entries/33370

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Migrating Types of Pages

Thinking this morning about the different types of pages (Trillium and otherwise) we will be migrating to the new website and our new content management system, LiveWhale, I decided to make a list online here at the redesign blog:

  1. Page content that can be moved to LiveWhale’s PAGES section on the new server with no problem and no changes necessary
  2. Page content that can be moved over but obviously in need a bit of updating on your part
  3. A news item that will be moved into LiveWhale’s NEWS section
  4. A calendar item that will be moved into LiveWhale’s EVENTS section
  5. Content from an email-only template that does not really belong in News or Events: Ignore, archive, or delete
  6. Tilde “~” sites of central importance: Ignore, but we will make a “landing page” in LiveWhale for us to link to first, before users go to the tilde site
  7. Tilde “~” sites of lesser importance: Ignore for now
  8. Gallery pages within Trillum: move into LiveWhale IMAGE and GALLERY sections
  9. Gallery pages on external sites like Smugmug or Picassa: Ignore
  10. Law and CAS alumni directories: Ignore for now

An interesting subset to all these is the use of forms.  For the most part we will migrate the current forms over to the new site as is, though RSVP forms will now be handled directly within the LiveWhale EVENTS section.

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