Sitebuilder 2.229 was released on 5th May 2011. Highlights from this release include:

New External Homepage and Student Experience section

We have launched a new external homepage for the Warwick website a new "Experience Warwick" section for prospective students. This has involved some changes and improvements to Sitebuilder that will be progressively rolled out over the coming year to other sites in Sitebuilder.

More info

• New homepage announcement
• External homepage
• Experience Warwick section
• Feedback form

Term-based recurrence rules for resource bookings

When bookings are made in a resource bookings page, they can now be restricted to term-time or even to certain weeks in term-time. For example, on a place to book seminar rooms, a user may want to book it for every week - but only during term time, and excluding reading weeks. This is now possible.

More info

• How do I create a Resource Bookings page?

Display improvements for unconfirmed bookings in resource booking pages

On Resource Booking pages, when a booking has not been confirmed (on pages which require approval) we now style the booking differently, so it is clear to the end-user that although there is a booking in the slot, it has not yet been confirmed.

More info

• How do I create a Resource Bookings page?

New options for displaying Powerpoint presentations in Sitebuilder

We have improved the display of Powerpoint presentations when they are uploaded to Sitebuilder using the "Create page from Office Document" button on the Sub pages tab. Previously, when a Powerpoint presentation was uploaded, it was always transformed into a single page with each slide in turn. We now provide three options:

• Create a single page with each image uploaded (this is what currently happens)
• Create a single page, but use a slideshow to display each slide in turn
• Create a single page for each slide, so you can add notes later

More info

• How do I create a web page from an Office document like Word or Powerpoint?
• 3 ways of converting a Powerpoint presentation

Support for site speed tracking in Google Analytics

Google have added support for Site Speed Tracking into Google Analytics, which can help analyse how to improve the performance of your Sitebuilder pages.

We have made a change to the Analytics code in Sitebuilder to enable this to work in the new version of Google Analytics.

More info

• How can I get more detailed statistics using Google Analytics?

Downloading Go.Warwick reports as CSV

It is now possible to download the results of searches on Go.Warwick as a CSV file, which you may find useful when doing large site restructures. For example, you may wish to download all of the current redirects in your site as a spreadsheet so that you know which redirects need to be updated.

More info

• Go.Warwick
• How do I find out if a Go address already exists?

General improvements and fixes

• Search results in Google should no longer show "authors" under the page title showing the Page Contact's name
• A fix has been made in resource bookings to ensure that end-users can see notes and reasons added to periods of unavailability in resource booking pages
• A problem where a "502" error was shown when trying to book resources on a small proportion of resource booking pages has been fixed
• Thumbnails and WebM renditions now work for videos that have a double-underscore in the file name