New Year Priorities: Link Cleanup, review customizations to see how / if they can be integrated, discussion of potential protected content policy.
Slacktivity
Object position field in Hero of Builder page, Display Banner
The top 6 (the ones that start with 50%) are the only ones that are functional right now. 50% 0% will lock the top of the image to the top of the frame, whereas 50% 100% will lock the bottom of the image to the bottom of the frame (all the other numbers are somewhere in between, and default is 50% 50% which locks the middle of the image in the middle of the frame).
How to Edit "Contact Us" or "Related Links" in footer of CMS?
When logged-in to your site, hover your cursor over the respective block you want to edit and you'll get an edit link in the upper righthand edge of the block to change each.
WATCH YOUR LINKS! Sites are going live, and addresses to specific pages may change. CMS sites have a built-in page (Reports → Top 'page not found' errors) that shows a list of URLs that users are visiting that result in Not Found being shown.
ADA TItle II / WCAG 2.1 AA
Websites are now explicitly covered by Americans with Disabilities Act
In short: WCAG 2.1, Level AA is the law
websites, web apps, platform-bound apps
doesn't matter who made it, where it's hosted
every person and every interaction matters
a university committee is meeting to discuss compliance and remediation
April 24, 2026 is compliance deadline
Analytics Updates
Action Required! Google Analytics Update - Not just CMS sites, everyone using GA needs to do this
Background: By default, GA adds a cookie for all of unl.edu. This results in users having a buildup of a lot of cookies when they have browsed a lot of UNL sites. This can cause errors when their browser tries to send all the cookies. Solution: Add a dimension called "cookie_domain" that is set to your site's domain, such as mysite.unl.edu/
Update 5.3.54 - deploying this afternoon, January 14
Updates GSAP to fix scroll-to-top bug
Update copyright date in footer
Hide (most) footer content on printed pages
Add mixins/utilities text-wrap balance and pretty
Beginning work on Version 6 (tentatively deploys July 8, 2025) - feature list includes
Replace Grunt with Vite
Replace jQuery with vanilla javascript
use page transitions and animations
UX Design Subcommittee met last Friday, January 10 and will meet again Monday, January 27 at 11 a.m.
Framework development group will meet next Friday, January 24 at 10:30 a.m.
message Ryan if you want an invite to either meeting
CMS updates
unlcms.unl.edu has been decommissioned (Next-Gen CMS is at cms.unl.edu)
Technical notes: We are continuing to host the UNL Framework files on unlcms.unl.edu since that domain name is referenced in the UNL Framework templates. In version 6 of the Framework we'll start using wdn-cdn.unl.edu for the "Cloud" (non-locally hosted) template.
Thank you to all Site Developers and Contributors
New Feature: "General Tagging"
Simple way to create an aggregate page to show teasers of builder pages
Under "page options" section there is now a place to add tags for creating pages
CMS sites have a built-in page that shows a list of URLs that users are visiting that result in Not Found being shown (note that this list also complains a lot of garbabge such as bots probing the site for wordpress login, etc)
From the toolbar: Reports->Top 'page not found' errors