Content

Shared Governance Board update

  • Discussion of PDF and document remediation tools for ADA Title II compliance.

Gov Board meetings are first and third Thursdays at 2 p.m. on go.unl.edu/wdn-zoom. Non-members may join as nonvoting attendees.

UNL CMS Workshops

  • Self-guided review of documentation and introductory training video required for attendance.
  • Request sandbox site access at https://cms.unl.edu/sandbox-site-access-request/
  • Monthly workshops on Zoom offered on the 2nd Thursday of each month @ 2 p.m. and are open to anyone who has a question about UNL CMS or just wants guidance on best practices for building pages. 
  • RSVP for a UNL CMS Workshop

WebAudit Metrics

  • https://webaudit.unl.edu/groups/unl/
  • WATCH YOUR LINKS! 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.

CMS updates

Currently live

  • Person page:
    • Fix issues viewing the Edit tab to allow editing a Person page.
    • Education content currently displays only when the Bio field is filled out. It should display regardless of whether the Bio field has content
  • Bulk update poor-quality alt text with AI is mostly completed.
  • Added Metatag options on a per-page basis (documentation coming soon)

Pending Review and Deployment

  • Install and configure Tagify: Replace the end-of-life Select2 widget for content types and components.
  • Hero and Display Banner components: Object position selection is not working.
  • Added the ability to apply frame style to images inserted through CKEditor.
  • Timeline Component: Updated the styling to center the arrows properly and reduce the overall height of the Timeline block.
  • Simple Media Component: Resolved an issue where some images extended beyond the grid boundaries in Chrome browsers.
  • Display Banner Component: Fixed an issue where adding large amounts of content caused buttons to overflow into adjacent sections.
  • Component Animations and Scroll Effects: Added fade-in-on-scroll effects for Icon Links, Logo Cloud logos, Basic Tandem images, Fade Tandem images, and Simple Media images. Added a parallax scrolling effect to Stacked Tandem images and a sticky scrolling effect to Basic Tandem text.
  • Added the ability to reorder sections within Layout Builder.
  • News List Component: Updated the “More News” button to automatically link to a page displaying content associated with all selected tags. Also added the ability to customize the button’s text.
  • Delete Contextual Link: Disabled the Delete link displayed under the pencil icon in "View" mode for the main content area. This is to help prevent accidental deletion of a page.

Upcoming fixes

Framework updates

Version 6.1.7 is scheduled for deployment next Tuesday, October 20

  • Additional updates to hidden regions and terminal styles (Thanks, Isaac!)
  • Update bare list styles (and update footer list styles)
  • Add flexbox mixins/utilities
  • Remove height/width from object-fit styles (Thanks, Matt!)
  • Convert camelCase data- attributes to kebab case (Thanks, Isaac!)
  • Update nav-container-2.js (Thanks, Isaac!)

UNL Web Framework Roadmap

Video

Recording on Mediahub