May 2019 Meeting Notes
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 2:00pm
WDN Shared Governance Board Updates
- Meeting time changes (reminder, meetings are open to all)
- Board meeting time: Thursdays, 3pm - 5pm
- Hard flip to 5.0 in UNLcms on Monday, August 5th (semester starts Mon, Aug 26th)
- Communication to sites still in 4.1 about the change
- Going through a list of the higher-priority sites; assistance will be available
- Discussion of user roles and permissions
- Establish more of a process for adding users
- Considering an approval process (like the lockup factory
Announcement of summer workshop dates, times & locations
- May: Tuesday, May 21, 2pm @ IIM - 5.0/DCF questions
- June: Thursday, June 27, 3pm, @ SNR - 5.0/DCF workshop and questions
- July: Tuesday, July 16, 2pm @ IIM - IA & Navigation
HigherEd Experts Websites Conference Presentations
- June 5th, Location TBA
- Ryan, Aaron giving presentations on CSS Grid, UNL Framework, other presentations on SEO, Metadata, content refinement. https://go.unl.edu/hew_conf
WebAudit Metrics
- All numbers up this month!: https://webaudit.unl.edu/groups/unl/
UNL Web Framework 5 Transition Progress Report
- UNL Progress report in Webaudit
- Have a list of higher-traffic sites to reach out to in order to see if they need help in transition
5.0 Templates updates
- Stars aligning (get to 90% or above if you want one in your footer)
- Details and summary elements (documentation coming, special note if you currently use accordion)
- Limit decimal precision in Sass calculations
- Replace SkipTo.js plugin with traditional skip nav
- Prevent alerts from displaying inside an iframe
- Events timezone, other updates
- Coming Soon: Lazy loading, SVG filters
UNLcms updates
- Saturday, May 18 hosting move (editing unavailable for a couple hours that morning)
- Drupal 8 timeline
- Phase 1: New 'Quickstart' managed sites available July 1
- Phase 2: New custom "Builder" sites (similar to current sites) available early fall TBD
- Phase 3: Migrations TBD