Fresh Green Website!
We are so excited! We are migrating to a brand new website for the OSU Libraries, and its going to be great! We’ve heard from our content providers, our patrons and from the maintainers: They wanted a better way to get their information onto the site, a better way to find it and a better [...]
OSUL Website Staff and Faculty Preview
See the living, breathing website as it is born into the World Wide Web! Here is the Staff and Faculty preview of the OSU Libraries Website as it will appear in just one week. As you may have noticed, some of the pages of our existing website have been replaced by pages with the new [...]
So, what’s going on? (A general LIPP update)
Fortunately for me, I am not slated to move for quite a while, so I am watching everyone pack and thinking that maybe the work of the LIPP project is not so bad. Here are some schedule updates for this project: I’m sure the most burning question on everyone’s mind right now is “When can [...]
Navigation Schema Updates
This has been the place to find Navigation Schema Updates, but we weren’t sure that it made sense to make a blog post every time we updated the file. We’ve collected the different versions and posted them to the CMS Training Materials Carmenwiki page. Don’t tune away from here though, I predict a schedule update [...]
June CMS Training Sessions
These are going to be general training sessions to help everyone learn how to use the new system to enter their web page content, regardless of the page type or location in the web site. We will be presenting more specialized sessions later, but these will be applicable for everyone. Please review the overview documents [...]
CMS Training Sessions Announced
We have scheduled the first of our Content Management System training sessions. These are going to be general training sessions to help everyone learn how to use the new system to enter their web page content regardless of the page type or location in the web site. Later we will be presenting more specialized sessions [...]
The new Web Pages are here!
We are so very happy to be making this announcement: The first pages have been published on the OSU Libraries’ new Content Management System (CMS) using the design and navigation created from the Website Redesign project. eh? the new phone books are what? The first pages of our new website have been posted. Oh! Excellent! [...]
Website Content Kit
Everything you need to know about the OSUL Website redesign, in three easily digestible documents! Some of this may look familiar, as it has been presented in this blog in similar fashion, but some of it is brand new. We hope that these three documents serve as guides to using one of the primary communication [...]
Page Type Review: Partners and Resources
These last two are pretty easy to describe. Partners are the groups that we work with, outside of OSUL. These pages will hopefully provide an easy way to help manage these relationships and will likely demonstrate just how integral OSUL is to the University and the community as a whole. The Resource pages are managed [...]
Page Type Review: Revenge of the Type
This is the third installment of our review of the page types for the OSUL Website redesign (SoC, TtGR). This deals with the Departments, Services and Operational Procedures: the Who, What, and How of our site. Departments should be the official organizational groups within OSUL. Services are the things that they do, and the the [...]