September 2014 Meeting Notes

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 - 4:15PM

UNLcms outage response

Sept. 4 outage due to host problem; plan to move to new host and reconfigure server architecture by next WDN meeting; email Casey Nugent for more details of monthly developers meeting

Marcelo Plioplis (Associate Creative Director) presents on University Brand

Our logo is only the tip of the iceberg, marketing/PR/design elements/voice/personal connections = the rest of the iceberg; UNL is launching a new brand essence in the coming months—more strategy, simplicity (“Strategy takes away the subjectivity of evaluating design.”)

WDN web governance

“Design is how it works.” We have a unique responsibility, engineering the brand—a shared responsibility, a shared governance; proposal for WDN governance group—organizing meeting: Sept. 26, 10am, 420 University Terrace

Continued work on moving sites into UNLedu 4.0 framework

No longer actively updating 3.0 or 3.1 frameworks, still many sites to be moved into 4.0 over the course of the fall

UNLedu 4.0 framework updates/changelog

More transparency in what is added/removed/fixed; Changelog will be added to WDN site; new development cycle: present framework changes to existing elements at WDN, next month move to testing environment, next month move to production.

Open discussion

Request for framework CSS class list (wiki page?)