September 2022 Website Meeting

Notes

Following on from our special meeting a couple of weeks prior, and with Nikky being out, our September regularly-scheduled meeting was brief.

Follow-up on profile and content-related issues

Earlier in the week, the school team was making some updates to the programs and how they are presented on the website, and this caused some issues. To recap, this exercise included unpublishing some pages, specifically concentration pages underneath some of the school’s programs. This had the unfortunate side effect of breaking some of the profile-related pages in the “Who We Are” section. This is because in our profiles, we use fields that point to the appropriate program pages to indicate what a student is studying or had studied, or where a faculty or staff member works. When a page is being referenced in this way, and that page is unpublished, it breaks the page that was referencing it.

Jason made some changes to the content and the setup to these profile-related pages in order to get things working again. We will continue to think of methods that may prevent something like this from happening again.

10-year anniversary update

A placeholder page has been published for the school’s 10-year anniversary celebration content. This will be the URL for the project, and as more content is gathered, the web team will create a specific design for this page that is appropriate for that content.

Nikky had mentioned in our separate meeting to discuss the project that some of the events and their dates had begun to be nailed down, but other details are still being worked on. As soon as more details become finalized, we will begin the process of figuring out how to present all of the information needed for this page.

Initial testing on the new Events module, which is set to be included in all of the major Health Sciences websites, is ongoing. As soon as that initial round of testing wraps up, the web team will look to implement that module in the Public Health site so that it can be used for this project.

Tools for identifying when content references other content

Finally, we circled back to the issue of when certain pieces of content reference others on a site. Shawn explained to the group that the web team is going to be looking into possibly developing tools that will allow site editors to explore those relationships between pages. That way, when the school is looking to overhaul important sections of their website, they’ll have the knowledge needed to make the necessary adjustments to other areas of the site to prevent anything from breaking. He will keep everyone updated on this as it is being created.