Building a better ND website

A presentation for Alumni Senate 2012 at Notre Dame. This presentation focuses on how the university's volunteer club, class, and group leaders can create more visually attractive and up-to-date websites by using best practices for web content and taking advantage of the tools offered on the myNotreDame content management system.

Transcript

1. Building a better ND website
2. Our goals • Help you create a more attractive and up-to-date website • Make your life easier as a busy volunteer
3. Keep in mind • Today’s focus: web content • Not technical training • Some tools are specific to myNotreDame
4. What we’ll cover • News • Events • Photos • Video
5. News and events • Managing • Sorting • Archiving • Preview / detail
6. News and events quiz Which of these can you do with news / events? A. Add a news/event section to a page B. Create different news/events categories C. Control which news/events appear where D. Customize news / events layout
7. News landing page
8. A news story
9. Preview
10. Full story
11. Events calendars
12. Event listing
13. Editing events
14. Basic photos (“image manager”)
15. Editing a photo
16. Stock campus photos
17. Image library • Get stock photos at: training.undgroup.org • Sign in to download
18. Photo galleries (“image rotator”)
19. Photo galleries
20. Setting up a photo gallery
21. Better storytelling through video
22. Videos + text
23. Embedding a video
24. Customizing video display
25. youtube.com/ndalumweb
26. Next steps • Don’t have a website? Go to mynotredame.nd.edu/arr to request training. • Want more detail on anything we covered? Go to training.undgroup.org for videos. • While you’re on the training website, feel free to take stock campus photos to use on your website.
27. For more information • Email: josh.stowe@nd.edu • Twitter: @joshstowe • speakerdeck.com/u/joshstowe
28. Your last chance to take a shot … • Thank you for not heckling • Feedback: Text the message NDSenate to the number 90210 (Image credit: Matti Mattilla, Flickr)