Web Updates

New Homepage & Inside NMSU(go live - August 6, 2015)

WordPress theme distributionIn consultation with ICT and Training, staged role out for Enterprise WordPress Users starting Aug. 17

We are distributing the theme to Colleges and Administrative Units NOT on Enterprise WordPress. We have started this process already.

Site Improve

Web Monitoring Tool

Checks for misspellings, broken links, and accessibility errors.

Example: College of Education Used Site Improve to complete the migration of their website and server decommission. They have zero broken links & misspellings.

For more information: http://webcomm.nmsu.edu/siteimprove-web-monitoring/

(Request account, view sample reports, request initial site improve report.)

Usability Study

Launched Late July/Early August

•In progress, survey closing end of the month

•Survey focused on website design, mobile browsing, content, and navigation/usability

Web Tips

Two things that might effect your SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

1.Page Load Time2.Mobile Optimized

New templates were designed to address these two elements.

Things you can do• Drop down menus should not go deeper than

one level. • Top link is not an active link.

• Optimize your images. Do not upload images that are larger than 800 pixels wide unless they are used in the main slideshow location.