HEH 18: Is This Good for the COMPANY?

The gang talks about the what new strategies and goals they have for their schools/sites. It covers speed, new applications, and updates to the CMS. They also look into web boot camps for new hires.

What’s 2017 going to be in your area? Strategies? Goals?

• GVSU
  • Upgrade to the CMS to reflect the new design of the home page
    • Caching, less server load
  • Admissions application rewrite – accessibility/usability
  • Increase grad enrollment (marketing/web) – giving it a lot of attention for the first time (centrally)
• Iowa Admissions
  • Admissions application rewrite – responsive
    • It’s hard to drop in those random misc required questions in a way that works with the rest of the application. A possible solution is to visit it regularly and look at the big picture.
  • New digital marketing/tracking system
• Iowa Libraries
  • Support systems/pages for content developers
  • New Style Guide (or pattern library)
    • Interface consistency (elements) – “This is how it looks”
  • Audit for usability and accessibility
  • Survey web users/audience (pop-up on top pages)
  • Standardize development workflow
  • New library search interface
• UALR
  • Integrate CMS with other systems
    • API to standardize systems
      • Student portal -> content wide
        • • Grow/nurture a new team
            • Workflow? Tell Stories.

Web/Online Boot Camps/Training

• It was a single platform consistent across all browsers that HTML5 does not *yet*?
• Mobile support of HTML5
  • Getting very popular
  • Don’t watch a tutorial – collaborative development with a mentor on a team. They look very thorough and… actually good.
    • Firehose
    • Bloc
    • General Assembly
    • The Iron Yard
  • Provide actual work experience

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