Following the launch of the website testing exercise, the Digital User Experience Team will seek input from subject matter experts based across our University to fact check the content on the new site.
Subject matter experts are owners of information accuracy on specific pages. This work is vital in making our website more compelling and user-friendly, so anyone, anywhere can discover our university and interact with us online.
The fact-checking exercise will cover content on the following:
- Research Groups, Centres and Institutes pages
- Research facility pages
- Study pages
- PGR pages
- Research impact pages
- Study highlights pages
- About our university pages
The Digital User Experience Team will be contacting the relevant single points of contact nominated by their faculties over the next few weeks and a clear process and guidance material will be provided to support this work.
Our website is a gateway through which people come into contact with us and at the moment, there are certain areas which need modernisation or updating. We are committed to continuously improving our online presence up to and after the launch of the new website. The changes and amendments highlighted via our subject matter experts will be dealt with by priority on an ongoing basis.
Transition away from legacy systems (SitePublisher, Drupal 7)
The new website pages are already improving the way our users find us and interact with us online, however there is some content across the existing website that is not meeting user needs, and therefore will not transition to the new corporate platform.
Therefore, some content will be:
- archived (e.g. out of date content, duplicated content etc.) or,
- redirected to the new relevant sections (e.g. staff profiles, study pages, etc.).
From July 2022, the University will transition away from legacy sites such as SitePublisher and Drupal 7. Members of staff with editors’ rights on SitePublisher and Drupal 7 have been notified of this change. An FAQ about this transition is available.
There are areas of the website, which will be retained until new services and products have been developed to support them (e.g. Alumni, employer engagement, etc).
Some links for further reading:
The principles behind our design
Guidance to Fact-checking
Digital User Experience blog
Timeline
An overview of the timeline of the last phase in the project is available here:
