{"id":972,"date":"2016-02-12T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/?p=972"},"modified":"2018-07-02T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:33:45","slug":"12-januarys-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/12\/12-januarys-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"#12 \u2014 January&#8217;s Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>When, where<\/h3>\n<p>January 28, 2:00-3:00pm, Commons 226<\/p>\n<h3>Recap<\/h3>\n<h4>Style Audit<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Style Audit is a collection of visual enhancements aimed at <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Improving the user experience of our website<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) Bringing more consistency across sites to strengthen the brand<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launched December 16, 2015<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, launch went well<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outstanding issues<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/giving\/fund\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CTA button size in sidebar<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Larger dropdown menus can appear offscreen<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Browser Support<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of January 12, 2016, Microsoft stopped supporting IE 8, 9, and 10.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They announced this 18 months ago.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The older versions still work, but won\u2019t receive bug fixes or other security patches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BCO no longer designs for IE 8 or older.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than 1% of our audience uses IE 8 or older<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site is still functional in IE8, it just doesn\u2019t look as nice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whatbrowser.org\/\">whatbrowser.org<\/a>\u00a0to stay up to date<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Browser Trends<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-12-at-10.22.42-AM-900x539.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.22.42 AM\" width=\"900\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-12-at-10.22.42-AM.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-12-at-10.22.42-AM-400x240.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-12-at-10.22.42-AM-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-12-at-10.22.42-AM-200x120.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Featurettes (formerly \u201cSliders\u201d)<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Featurettes content type found in left admin menu<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activate homepage presentation by having at least 3<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can be edited from the front-end<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ex. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bates.edu\/biology<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortcodes<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updated Shortcode Reference on bates.edu\/wordpress<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the shortcut <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/shortcode-reference\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bates.edu\/sr<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New \u201cfoldaway\u201d shortcode for hiding\/showing content<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/admission-publications\/\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/admission-publications\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use sparingly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Annual events pages<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><em>What should I do with pages that are only relevant for a portion of the year?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orientation schedule, Admission Open House schedule, Reunion, Commencement, MLK Day, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommendation:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep annual recurring events pages up year round.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than taking the page down in the offseason, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">update the copy to keep audience informed. Include dates for last year&#8217;s and next year&#8217;s events.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Archiving content<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress is primarily a platform for publishing current information<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While WordPress does have some archiving functionality (pages can be unpublished and kept as drafts; previous versions of pages are available in revision history; b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ackups are kept for security and college records), serious a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rchiving of information should be done outside of WordPress (Google Drive, network storage, etc.).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2016\/02\/WP-CoP-January-2016.pdf\" rel=\"\">Download the PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When, where January 28, 2:00-3:00pm, Commons 226 Recap Style Audit The Style&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"sidebar-1","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}