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Articles by
Aimee Halstenson

Naming & Resizing Images for Web

Categories: Evolve

When placing images on the web, it’s important to be thoughtful about the size and file name given to the photo used. The image guidelines created by the UND Web Team ensures the user experience is optimized for both desktop and mobile devices, and that organization is maintained within OmniUpdate by using straightforward naming conventions. […]

More People Listing Snippet Improvements

Categories: Evolve

UND launched a revised people listing snippet that is more accurate and less work for web managers to maintain their Contact Us pages. The new snippet is called “People Listing, Auto by IDM” and is a hybrid of the Manual People Listing and Auto From Directory snippets. The snippet automatically creates a people listing based […]

People Listing Snippet Improvement

Categories: Evolve

The UND Directory hosts individual profiles of faculty and staff. All employees have the ability to update their profile by listing their specialties, biography, education, list of publications etc. This information is easily picked up by search engines like Google. It is also used by Marketing & Communications to pitch experts to the media, generate […]

OmniUpdate Analytics

Categories: Evolve

OmniUpdate (OU) has gadgets that allow users to view their site analytics without having to go through Google Analytics. Page Analytics OmniUpdate Page Analytics are available to all site users in Gadgets. Users can pull page-specific data and information with specified timeframes including: Number of page visitors and new page visitors Page views and unique […]

Academic Catalog Snippet Improvement

Categories: Evolve

There are several places on the UND website where information is pulled directly from the current academic catalog (hosted in a software called CourseLeaf): Department websites use the ‘Course Display’ snippet to auto-pull the course name, number of credits and short course descriptions The Program Finder ‘Courses You Could Take’ section displays six selected course […]