It takes a village…
…to do a lot of things, actually. But I’m thinking about what goes into presenting a unified web presence. On a site of over 50,000 pages. Maintained by nearly 1000 web editors. One piece of this...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month –“Socialize”
There is an easy way to promote your social media channels in your Cascade site. Check out the buttons in the left column of the W&M Information Technology site for an example. Interested? Involve...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Reusing Announcements
Announcements are simple pages that can be pulled into a listbox as prominent links in the right column of your home page (or any other page for that matter). The most common question we hear, “I’d...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Quick Check Your Edits
Once you’ve completed your edits and have published, be sure to go check them out on your live site. Sounds silly, right? Don’t laugh! Really. You may be surprised how many common errors can be caught...
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Are you human?
A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response method to determine whether a web page visitor is human or computer. Typically the challenge is an image of distorted text, easy enough for a human to decipher but...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Is Your Right Column Too Long?
While related links, listboxes and widgets can be powerful tools for presenting your content, the right-hand column of your page should never be longer than the center area. Wrangling your right column...
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Size matters.
We’re strong proponents of the “content is king” mantra for higher ed websites. But, if reading our content is cumbersome on smaller screens will we miss an opportunity to make a connection? Enter...
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Enough about us
We’d like to know a little more about you. Many thanks to Google Analytics for their Audience Overview. Here’s a little something from our stats that jumps off the page. In the past year, over 11% of...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Cascade Has Spell-check?
Yes. Cascade has a built-in spell-checker. Who knew? We’ve all probably learned the hard way that a spell-checker won’t catch all typos, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. While the spell-check feature of...
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Cascade Tip of the Month: Embedding a Form
If you’re managing web content for your office, program or department, you probably know about Tribe Responses (our simple form building tool). But, did you know that you can embed a Tribe Responses...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Keeping Up With Content
We often share tips and reminders about keeping your content arranged and looking good (cue Writing & Style Guide plug). But what about updates to the content itself? Whether your site launched...
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Hey good lookin’…introducing W&M’s new responsive design
Back in April we mentioned that we were working on a new responsive design for the main W&M website (www.wm.edu). After a few browser fights (thanks Internet Explorer), a dozen test devices and...
View ArticleOptimize Your New Responsive (Cascade) Site
Currently responsive design has launched for the www.wm.edu website. Our grad school sites will also become responsive in the coming months. We’ll keep you posted. One of our favorite things about the...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Avoid Web Cliches
When the web was young and we were unsure of whether people would get it, websites had a lot of directions and introductions that are now unnecessary. Some of the most common: Welcome to the Benneton...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Fixing Widget (and other) Images
Have you found one of your widget images extending beyond the widget? To fix the problem, you’ll need to crop the image to the prescribed dimensions of 240px wide by 150px tall (or 209 x 143 for...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Fill Your Web Bag of Tricks with Treats!
Whether you (or your supervisors) like to admit it, what you do as a Cascade web editor is important and complicated stuff. You help W&M maintain a unified web presence. You create the content that...
View ArticleCascade Tip of the Month: Watch Out for IE11!
Recently some folks have found their Internet Explorer updated to IE11 and that it’s causing a loss of functionality in the Cascade editor, or WYSIWYG. While some programs you work with may require...
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William & Mary Law School website refreshed
All rise. The responsive William & Mary Law School website is now in production. Turn on all electronic devices and enjoy! On desktop… … and mobile! ~ Mark Windley
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Cascade Tip of the Month: Easier Browsing of Your Stored Images
Have you gone searching for an image in your storage folders, only to find you can’t remember the file name? Try switching to the Gallery view and browse the folder’s contents visually instead. Select...
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School of Education website refreshed
The School of Education joins the responsive party bringing a fresh color palette, new home page, and loads of new photography! Desktop: Mobile: ~ Mark Windley
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