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What attracts users to your La Trobe microsite? Do you know if they are engaging with your content? What makes them stay or leave? Do you know if they found what they came for?
The answers could lie in your site design.
Good site design consists of a few key principles and practices, if integrated well, can help users navigate your site with ease and find the information they are searching for.
Good site design is not just about aesthetics, it covers your site’s content, layout and usability. Good site design encompasses a good user experience and enables information to be transferred easily.
As a Siteimprove editor you’ll receive a dashboard for your microsite. This dashboard provides an overview of your site’s health and identifies quality assurance issues e.g. broken links, misspellings, long sentences.
Want to never miss a spelling mistake or broken link again? We have a tool that can help you!
Web Operations would like to introduce you to Siteimprove, a new tool to help identify quality assurance errors across your site.
The Web User Guide and resources website are located on our La Trobe University Intranet. It is your one stop shop for web and content needs. It includes walkthrough guides, resources and tools for web editors. This area also provides links to university policy and regulatory requirements.
To help ease your frustrations we’ve compiled the top 5 editor frustrations we’ve come across whilst managing the CMS to provide solutions and tips to help stop them from happening to you again.
There’s no doubt we all have a lot on our plates. Between regular work duties, project work, meetings and emails, the weeks really do fly by. We end up asking ourselves, ‘how is it <insert random month here> already?’ at various times throughout the year.
With the rapid pace of modern life, things tend to slip away if they aren’t prioritised. Something we don’t want to see slip away are regular updates of your website.
Spelling mistakes can be embarrassing and unprofessional. They can distract the user and reduce the credibility of your content. We don’t want users losing interest, leaving our site with more questions than first imagined. The best way to tackle spelling mistakes is proofreading and we have some tips for you.
The Web Operations Team is preparing to roll out training for our software tool, Siteimprove.
Siteimprove is software that crawls your site to discover any quality assurance issues or recommendations for improvement.
It reports on:
As a web editor, you play a key role in providing your audiences with a quality experience and ensuring your web content is:
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