Website Improvement

Follow UND's website improvements.

It’s Time to Clean House

Categories: Evolve

Marketing & Communications is working with Manaferra, a new third–party partner, to improve organic traffic to the UND website. Manaferra identified several issues that hinder search engine optimization (SEO). We’ve learned issues on one site will negatively impact all sites. There is a lot of work to do, and we need you to do your […]

Link To Your Job Listings

Categories: Evolve

Human Resources transitioned to a new job postings website. This platform can sort job postings by category, department/college, and employment type. It also allows you to link directly to your filtered job postings from your website. Here are some ways you can link directly to your job listings on your website: Arts & Sciences could […]

Omni Forms Improvement

Categories: Evolve

On July 14-16, UND had a large in-flux of requests to pages and resources on the main UND servers. UIT indicated hackers were probing for vulnerabilities. They didn’t find any, but some Modern Campus (Omni) form users reported getting hundreds of spam form submissions during that time. To prevent future issues, UIT enabled Google’s reCAPTCHA on […]

Omni CMS Maintenance

Categories: Uncategorized

Maintenance scheduled Tuesday, May 23 at 5 p.m. Modern Campus Omni CMS will be unavailable starting at 5 p.m. on May 23, 2023 to perform an update to version 2023.1. Maintenance is expected to be completed within 1-2 hours. Be sure to save any work and log out of Omni CMS prior to 5 p.m. […]

2023 Program Finder Audit

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We need your help to update the Program Finder. UND’s Program Finder is the #1 place prospective students go to learn about academic offerings, attracting over 2 million external visitors in 2022. Its critical program page content is up-to-date and we need your help reviewing program page content. Refer to the Program Finder Audit for details, best practices […]

Transition to GA4

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UND uses Google Universal Analytics (UA) to measure web performance. The current version will be replaced with Google Analytics (GA4) on July 1, 2023. This transition is far from a cosmetic update. GA4 is a complete paradigm shift in both how Google tracks and reports site activity. Moving to GA4 is like switching to a […]

Program Finder Fixes Live

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The following fixes to the Program Finder were made live to improve usability and accessibility. This was a 13-month project with mStoner/Carnegie. Removed the quick card preview. We now link all program titles and photos directly to the program page (eliminating an extra click). It is believed the quick card action was negatively impacting search […]

UND Calendar Improvements

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The UND Calendar feeds events automatically into web pages and the new My UND app. Improvements to UND Calendar filters were established to ensure events are getting fed into the correct places. Moving forward, please follow guidelines when submitting events. 1. Keywords May Convert to Tags Many areas across campus can benefit from tagging events. […]

2022 Program Finder Audit

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Marketing is conducting an annual Program Finder audit. UND’s Program Finder is the #1 place prospective students go to learn about academic offerings, attracting over 2.2 million external visitors in 2021. Its critical program page content is up-to-date and we need your help reviewing program page content. Refer to the Program Finder Audit for details, best practices and things to […]

New Footer Coming 2.2.22

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UND will launch a redesign footer on February 2, 2022.  Request for More Links The new footer comes after campus requests to include additional links in the footer. Thus, a usability and industry best practice study was done with mStoner – our higher ed expert web consultants we’ve partnered with for four years. We conducted […]