You may have noticed that new designs and components are selectively rolling out across our website. These components and layouts are part of La Trobe’s Design System and they help deliver consistent web experiences. Some of the benefits are that users can now expect a similar experience on the website as well as on our other digital interfaces. To learn more about design systems and their role see what is a design system.
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Information architecture (IA) is defined as the structural design of information. It aims to ensure usability in complex systems. In simple terms, IA is arranging information in order to help the end user make sense of this information and find what they are looking for.
Caching is the process of storing a copy of a file in a temporary local location of the browser you are using. A cache is the location in which these files are stored.
Caching improves efficiency as your browsers will look for a local copy of data. This will allow for faster load speeds when accessing the same pages. Caching will reduce servers load time; which processes large amounts of data every time someone visits the page. Thus, increasing web performance and user experience.
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.
We have all heard the term metadata, but what is it – and, more importantly, why do web editors need to care? Read on to get the lowdown.
What is metadata?
Metadata is data used to describe information and content that you present on your asset. Metadata is vital in making your page (and other assets) accessible and findable via search engines.
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:
- broken links
- misspellings
- content reading level
- accessibility
- search engine optimisation (SEO).
Have you come across a staff list page on your site and wondered to yourself “why can’t I edit this?”
In this article we explain why you don’t have access to staff lists. We give you a bit of background about how they’re edited and what processes to follow if they need to be changed.
Thank you for your ongoing support, feedback and editing during 2020.
The Web Editor Blog will be taking a break over the University shut down period and Staff Wellness Day (23 December 20 – 4 January 2021) and will return in 2021.
Members of our team will be on leave in the coming month. While we are here to support you, there may be longer than anticipated times in completing your request. As usual, we ask that you log requests through the Digital Marketing Request system so our available team members can monitor and complete them.
The Web Operations team would like to wish you and your families a safe and happy holiday season.
When you accept the responsibilities of a CMS editor it is important to understand the expectations of your role.
A CMS editor role requires you to regularly update and maintain content on a webpage.
Whilst managing and editing content is vital, presenting content in line with La Trobe’s standards, guidelines and policies is also crucial.
