Web Publishing Service Current Activities
Coming up in the next few months
Development
- Continue developing the Coursework Management application
- Add templating functionality to pages and sites in Sitebuilder
- Create an Open Day Guide iPhone application
- Create an iPhone and Android app for jobs.ac.uk
- Develop an iPad / Android tablet app for viewing the university art collection
- Investigate the creation of a video portal
- Allow automatic integration of External Users with Web Groups
- Extend the External Users application to support multiple account types, data push to Active Directory, and better account management
- Develop the support model and infrastructure for a Sharepoint service
- Re-design all of the major Warwick web applications (including Files.Warwick) to utilise the new University web identity (ID6)
- Evaluate whether changing our interactive map to use Google Maps or OpenStreetMap would deliver significant benefits
- Improve the SiteBuilder WYSIWYG interface to support easier editing of all parts of the page in a single interface, better support for embedded objects, and better, easier to use layout options
- Improve the FormsBuilder user interface; more WYSIWYG editing, new 'ranking' field type, better error validation, client-side form saving, better form renditions
- Add HTML as a download format for FormsBuilder submissions
- Add workflow and reporting functionality to submissions on Formsbuilder forms
- Implement discussion forums within SiteBuilder to replace the deprecated Warwick Forums application
- Enable self-service external user account creation to support easier sign up and access to protected web content
- Improve the Start.Warwick application with more gadgets and functionality to allow it to be the default homepage for staff and students
Support
- Create documentation and 'how to' videos for SharePoint
- Update SiteBuilder FAQs to reflect ID6 changes
Site redesigns and new sites/content
- Redesign the Business and Research sections of the University's external web site
- Restructure and redesign of Complexity Complex
- Design a template for showcasing teaching case studies for the Teaching Grid
- Implement design for Welcome to Warwick web site
- Redesign prospective student web pages for Economics
- Restructure and create homepage design for Centre for Scientific Computing web site
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New sites for PG Hub, MidPlus
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Create sites and homepage designs for the Global Priorities Programme themed sites
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Create an on-line version of the University's financial delcaration form
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Create an animated video explaining how ITS allocates resources
Sitebuilder template migrations
- Continue migrating all department/service SiteBuilder sites to the new ID6 template
- Create an ID6 homepage design for WMG
May 2012
- New sites designed in ID6:
- Olympics 2012
- CoRAL (Comparative Religions and Literatures)
- WBS Behavioural Science Group
- WBS Postgraduate Award in the Teaching of Shakespeare
- Sites migrated to ID6:
- Safe Prescribing
- National Guidance Research Forum
- GLACIER
- Warwick Medical School
- Department of Chemistry
- Theatre Studies
- History of Art
- Centre for Education and Industry (CEI) and Centrelink
- Forum for Science and Technology in Medicine
- WBS sites: Human Resources, Marketing & Strategic Management Group, Centre for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Women of Warwick
- Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR)
- Warwick in Venice 40th Anniversary
- Humanities Research Centre
- Women in Modern Irish Culture
- Microsensors & Bioelectronics Laboratory
- Warwick Institute of Education
- Warwick Pioneers
- Institute of Employment Research
- Futuretrack
April 2012
- Re-designed the External Users application and added support for external user groups
- Allowed downloading of Formsbuilder submissions as PDF
- Released improvements to the Like This buttons in Sitebuilder
- Allowed tables to be specified as presentation tables in Sitebuilder, which makes them "stack" on mobile devices
- Began piloting e-submission in the Coursework Management application
- User interface improvements to Coursework Management
- Sites migrated to ID6:
- Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
- Facilitating Learning and Guideance in Social Studies (FLAG)
- History at the Higher Education Academy
- Centre for Complexity Science
- Department of Physics
- Warwick Systems Biology Centre
- Department of Economics
- The Nursery
- Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR)
- Warwick on Wheels
- Warwick Volunteers
- Becoming a Channel Swimmer
March 2012
- Further updates to the Assignment Management application.
- Improved the embedding of Twitter feeds in SiteBuilder pages
- Changed the way Warwick URLs work so that SiteBuilder pages and Go addresses can now be cited as www.warwick.ac.uk/something or warwick.ac.uk/something (though this is not yet the default)
- Sites migrated to ID6:
- School of Law
- Department of Film and Television Studies
- Department of French Studies
- Undergraduate study
- Department of Italian
- Comparative American Studies
- Centre for Applied Linguistics, LEAP and CAL Intranet, + 4 other subsites
- European Early American Studies Association
- Department of Philosophy + 2 subsites
- Political Economy of Energy in Europe and Russia (Peeer)
- Management Information and Planning Office
- Civil Research Group
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Classics and Ancient History
- Several archive top level sites including: Vision 2020, 40th Anniversary, Campus Development, Community Engagement Hub, and Global Education and listings sites: Departments and services, Societies, Students' Union societies
- PAIS subsites: New Security Challenges; NSC - Radicalisation; CELPA
- Warwick Writing Programme
- Medicated sleep and wakefulness project (Sociology)
- The Warwick Prize for Writing
- Insite subsites: Warwick Footprint; Pulse; Warwick Innovation Fund
- Department of German Studies
- Better Communication Research Programme
- Student Reception
- Department of History
- Podcasting Goethe
February 2012
- Allowed users to switch to desktop version when viewing ID6 pages from a mobile device
- Allowed students to provide feedback on the standard of their assignment feedback
- Allowed multiple feedback sets to be uploaded and published to an assignment
- New sites designed in ID6:
- Global Priorities Programme and eight related sub-sites
- Sites migrated to ID6:
- Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre
- MOAC
- WMG International Institute for Produce and Service Innovation
- East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
- GAIA Island Project
- English
- Engineering
- Risk Initiative and Statistical Consultancy Unit
- Academy for PhD Training in Statistics
- Warwick Crop Centre
- HDC Pest Bulletin
- PAIS Subsite - The Kosovo Conflict
- Warwick Centre for Analytical Science
- Royal College of Nursing Research Institute
- Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital Project
- FlowMotion
- Designing for the 21st Century
January 2012
- Released initial version of the Assignment Management application, allowing submission feedback to be returned to students electronically.
- Improved small-screen, mobile and tablet renditions of web sites in ID6
- Released a new version of the WYSIWYG editor in Sitebuilder with improved support for Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer 9
- Added a "Full Week" view to Sitebuilder calendars
- Improved adding and removing permissions in Sitebuilder to allow more granular changes
- Sites migrated to ID6:
December 2011
- Improved the mobile rendition of web sites in ID6
- Made a number of layout improvements to ID6 sites
- New sites designed in ID6:
- Thinking about University - an outreach SARO project to explain universities to school children
- Sites migrated to ID6:
November 2011
- Released the first version of the iPhone and Android Start.Warwick apps
- Improved site map pages in SiteBuilder
- Improved ID6 navigation and layout features
- Introduced a Twitter magic tag to easily embed tweets in SiteBuilder pages
- Sites migrated to ID6:
- New sites designed in ID6:
- Warwick Racing
- Institute of Digital Healthcare
- iMR-CDT
- Constellations (undergraduate journal)
October 2011
- Begun work on a new system to support Assignment Management
- Released two new versions of Sitebuilder: 2.246 and 2.247 with a number of improvements and fixes
- Begun work on a new mobile application built upon Start.Warwick
- Sites and applications migrated to ID6:
- University of Warwick home page
- Business, Research, Alumni, About and News sections of the external web site
- Warwick Search, Web Sign on
- Past exam papers
- Analytical Capability Guide
- Warwick Writers Archive
- Centre for the History of Medicine
- Medical School CPD VLE
- New sites designed in ID6:
September 2011
- Launched three sites with a new design in ID6:
- Created a site design for Careers and Skills subsite Warwick Academic Writing
- Developed 'Research Match' community pages for the Research Exchange web site
- Created a Capability Guide Repository of information for the Business facilities section of the web site
- Restructured the Warwick Volunteers site
- Delivered a training session - Getting started with SiteBuilder
- Increased quotas on Files.Warwick to 2GB for both staff and students - Files.Warwick 3.0.70
- Increased the maximum upload size on Files.Warwick to 1GB - Files.Warwick 3.0.70
- Improved performance when streaming large files to web browsers (including viewing PDFs in the browser) - Sitebuilder 2.238
- Allowed access of protected resources on Sitebuilder via OAuth
- Released over 200 fixes and improvements to Sitebuilder - Sitebuilder release notes
August 2011
- Updated the Writers' Archive iPhone application with new authors
- Planning and preparation for migration of approx. 1,500 SiteBuilder sites to the new template (ID6)
- Ran three information sessions to inform customers about ID6
- Produced an ID6 information video, leaflet and FAQs
- Created homepage designs for Cultural Policy Studies MA courses
- Created a homepage design for Reconceptualising Gender
- Created a homepage design for Library Information for New Users
- Created site design for ICALP
- Created site design for Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar Group
- Released a number of updates to Sitebuilder in preparation for rolling out sites to ID6: Sitebuilder 2.235, Sitebuilder 2.236, Sitebuilder 2.237
- Released a new version of Start.Warwick
July 2011
- Created a new site design and homepage for the postgraduate prospectus study pages
- Arranged information sessions on the new Sitebuilder template ID6 to run during August and September over 170 web site owners have accepted invitations to attend
- Prepared a video and FAQs on ID6
- Updated all the FormsBuilder FAQs
- Continued active development on ID6 with 6 new releases of Sitebuilder
- Allowed separate permissions to be applied for editing glossary and data store pages (Sitebuilder 2.233.4)
- Made improvements to embedding recorded lectures in Sitebuilder (Sitebuilder 2.233)
June 2011
- Added the ability to create custom booking rules for resource booking pages (Sitebuilder 2.232)
- Added links to non-administrator filespaces to the Files.Warwick homepage (Files.Warwick 3.0.67)
- Added personal exam timetable information to Start.Warwick (Start.Warwick 1.0.16)
- Created a set of web pages for the Business section of the web site to showcase equipment available for hire at Warwick
- Created a new site for the GR:EEN project
- Created a design for High Performance Computing (HPC) short courses for the Centre for Scientific Computing
- Created a new site for the Socially Responsible Licensing Conference, for Research Support Services
- Created a blog design for IGGY/LITRO Essay prize blog
- Presented a session at the Writing for the Web Window on Warwick session with the Comms Office
May 2011
- Launched the new University home page and Student Experience website
- Added term-based recurring bookings to resource bookings (Sitebuilder 2.229)
- Added new options for displaying presentations in Sitebuilder (Sitebuilder 2.229)
- Added links checking into Sitebuilder (Sitebuilder 2.231)
- Allowed embedding of recorded lectures in Sitebuilder (Sitebuilder 2.231)
- Made improvements to the quality of telephone data in Warwick Search
- Created a ITS Service Desk gadget for Start.Warwick (Start.Warwick 1.0.14)
- Created a home page design for the Institute of Education with editable areas
- Redesigned and restructured the Research Exchange web site
April 2011
- Began publishing detailed release notes for Sitebuilder, Files.Warwick and Start.Warwick
- Improved the display of image galleries in Sitebuilder, and added support for per-image commenting, pinning news items and copying Calendar events in Sitebuilder 2.227
- Added support for reasons on unavailability notes in resource booking pages in Sitebuilder 2.228
- Released a new version (3.0.65) of Files.Warwick
- Moved Files.Warwick to new server hardware
- Redesigned the IT Services Training Service web page
- Produced a leaflet to advertise SiteBuilder training courses
- Created a design for IATLs new Student as Researcher site
March 2011
- Created an iphone application to contain the Writers Archive and redesigned the home page
- Create a site and home page design for Warwick on Wheels, WMG
- Improved the quality of Lightbox image display in Sitebuilder
- Created a site design for Unison
- Delivered two training modules - Managing your web content and Creating dynamic pages
- Redesigned the undergraduate study section to match the new prospectus
- Added Outlook calendar support for resource bookings in Sitebuilder
- Made improvements to page thumbnails in Sitebuilder
- Added Sitebuilder page thumbnails to search results in Sitebuilder Search
- Made improvements to the Files.Warwick files transfer utility (SFTP)
February 2011
- Created a new site design for the History of Art Research Exchange - withdrawn by customer
- Redesigned the Deskside web pages on the ITS site
- Created a home page for the 'Becoming a Channel Swimmer' site
- Created a new home page for the Centre for the History of Medicine's, Recipes, Remedies and Receipts site
- Delivered five training sessions - Getting Started with Sitebuilder, Adding news & events, Working with files, Working with Links, Adding images and Creating forms & quizzes
- Added the ability to add thumbnails to news items in Sitebuilder
- Added options to view and restore history of right-hand side content in Sitebuilder pages
- Added support for WebM video in Sitebuilder
- Improved support for sending and downloading large folders in Files.Warwick
- Moved Warwick Blogs to new server hardware
January 2011
- Created a site and home page design for the Centre for the History of Medicine
- Redesigned the International Office Offer Holders page
- Redesigned the Italian Department's home page and provided support and guidance on restructuring the site
- Created a campus tour map for the International Office
- Created a site design for Europe's Asian Centuries
- Created a site design for SHAW Sexual Health Awareness Week
- Delivered three training sessions on Getting Started with Sitebuilder - An Overview for Beginners
- Improved password encryption in Web sign-on
- Released two new versions of Sitebuilder, improving resource bookings, slideshows, moving, copying and renaming pages, and content cleanup.
- Improved speed and quality of video conversion through Sitebuilder
- Added a Chat gadget to Start.Warwick
For previous activities see the archive.
See also the web site design gallery, to view our latest site designs.
