Vanbrugh goes live

The new Vanbrugh College website went live today.

The home page features a striking image of the College piazza shortly after it was first built, an image which tones in with the new College colours of purple and teal.

Psychology goes live

The Department of Psychology has a new website within the Web CMS.

The Department was one of the first to agree to move their site over and its size and complexity gave the team some useful integration challenges - experience which has improved the service for future users.

The migration is phased, so much of their content aimed at staff and students is still on the old site and will be moved later in the year as part of Phase 2 of their project.

Halifax College

The new Halifax College website went live today in the Web CMS.

This marks the half-way point in the Colleges project, with three more colleges working away in the system and another due to go live next week.

Update to freqently asked questions CMS template

If you're a CMS user you might have spotted that pages generated using the FAQ template have changed slightly in their appearance and behaviour, which should increase their usability a bit.

Before

Here's how they used to look. Clicking a question reveals the answer.



After

Here's how they look now:



Have a look at a live example on the Department of Physics website to see the full effect.

What's changed

• The answers now slide into place rather than instantly appearing. With the previous instant reveal there was always a chance of "blink and you'll miss it", and not quite noticing that the answer had appeared.
• The background colour and borders should help to tie the question and answer together - in the previous style it wasn't always clear where one answer ended and another question began, especially when the answer contained headings, or when FAQs have been used amongst normal page content.
  
• Minor change to font size and removal of underlines on headings to increase readability.
• The whole width of the question area is now a link, so there's a larger link target for people to hit.