As a contributor to editing, creating, developing or maintaining websites across York University, we are excited to invite you to a Website Wireframing and Prototyping (Basics) training session on March 6 at 2pm featuring School of Continuing Studies Instructor Sveta Fedarava! This session is a part 2 from the previous UX Basics training session that […]
There is a new way that you can view PDFs on the York University 2020 Theme! Starting today all community members have the option embed PDFs on the website via a tool called ISSUU (basically the YouTube for PDFs). This tool allows you to make PDFs more interactive by making them flipbooks and bring them […]
Please be advised that on Dec. 4th there will be a site-wide update to our York websites introducing a cookie banner. This cookie banner is required as part of the ongoing website compliance standards set out by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The ePrivacy Directive requires websites to collect an informed consent to cookies […]
These ongoing communications will provide the digital community news on the new module designs, templates, functionality, and opportunities available to enhance your websites and pages as well as general reminders. These updates will continue on an ad-hoc basis as we consistently enhance and evolve our digital properties. The below updates are now available for you […]
As a contributor to websites across York University, we are excited to share a User Experience (UX) Training session on Oct. 24 at 11am featuring School of Continuing Studies Instructor Sveta Fedarava! This is part of C&PA’s larger Brand Training Series which features topics on brand, social media, and website. You can see all the […]
These ongoing communications will provide the digital community news on the new module designs, templates, functionality, and opportunities available to enhance your websites and pages. These updates will continue on an ad-hoc basis as we consistently enhance and evolve our digital properties. The below updates are now available for you to use, plan your websites […]
As part of York University's regular scheduled website maintenance, all websites that begin with www.yorku.ca/_______ may be impacted by a short outage on June 14 sometime between 5am and 7am (exact time pending update). During this time website editors may not be able to update websites and users may not be able to access the […]
The time is coming close to transition from Google Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) at York. As shared in the October 2022 update, and at the GA4 training sessions in the same month, York is moving to this new analytics platform. This is due to the old UA being shut down on […]
As part of our ongoing efforts to maintain security and plugin compatibility on our multisite environment, we are pleased to announce the upcoming upgrade to WordPress 6.1.1. This upgrade will bring new features, improved dashboard and editor functionality, continued plugin compatibility, and AODA compliance, among other enhancements. Please note that this upgrade will tentatively take […]
We are pleased to share York's updated sitemap strategy and content buckets. After internal review of all our websites, there are some new recommended ways to create sitemaps at our institution. These are created both at the local level (when you create pages for your website) and on the institutional level (when creating a new […]