Academic Department Brand Project In the coming weeks Marketing & Communications in partnership with Academic Affairs and Web Services will be rebranding all academic department home pages. This is to ensure consistency, aid the College’s promotional efforts, and modernize them to bring them up to Providence College Brand standards. When completed, your department home pages will showcase the new brand look and feel, incorporating your previous information while displaying information and structure consistent with all of the other academic department home pages. Once the new pages are live, you will have the ability to maintain them, as you always have. If you have any questions, please drop Web Services a line.
PC Custom Blocks Web Services is launching a variety of new blocks- PC Custom Blocks – for WordPress. These blocks support the College brand and introduce new functionality, graphical elements, and updated styling replacing older “legacy” blocks. Full details on the PC Custom Blocks, as well as other WordPress blocks is available on the Blockumentation and Styleguide microsite. An updated Web Styleguide will also be published later this fall.
New Service – QR Code Generator If you have the need for QR codes for your print projects that link to your web sites or to download documents, AND are not already working with Marketing & Communications on your project, Adobe now offers a QR Code Generator that is free with our campus license.
Stream Videos Moving – Switch to YouTube On the external providence.edu sites, all videos should be posted/hosted from YouTube. If you are sharing/linking to Microsoft Stream videos on the external site, they need to be migrated to YouTube. Microsoft is retiring the Stream (classic) video service as of February 15, 2024.
DubBot – Refresh Content & Tasks It’s been terrific to see how many web editors have been engaged with DubBot since we began using the tool just over a year ago. DubBot has recently had a minor interface change that you might want to know about. When you fix an issue that DubBot has flagged, there used to be an option to “Mark as Resolved”. That option has changed subtly – now, when you’ve fixed an issue, you should use the “Refresh Content” button at the top right. That will quickly recrawl just that page, and assuming the issue has been fixed correctly, DubBot will automatically resolve the issue for you!
One important note, though. You should never ignore a DubBot Accessibility, Best Practice, or Web Governance issue without first creating a Task and assigning it to Kerri Hicks, the Web Accessibility Coordinator. (Spelling and SEO issues are fine for you to ignore whenever you wish.) There are some issues that can’t be solved right away, and can safely be “ignored”, but we expose the College to liability if we don’t investigate and remediate, as needed, issues that we’ve been informed of. Don’t hesitate to create and assign those tasks…that’s what we’re here for!
