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- Must align with our brand and high level design
- Should use To the extent possible, the design should reuse existing blocks that already exist are used elsewhere on home site, as much as possibleMust allow a link through to full researcher profiles, when they exist (as this is a work in progress) and if the person has a one.
- Currently all the content is on one page but this could be a broken up so that there is a top page showing who the members are and their job titles and then each SLT member could their own profile page which includes contact information, their EA's details, a bio, the areas they oversee - https://www.victoria.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/1738050/Senior-leadership-team.pdf
Wordpress theme
Digital Engagement facilitate the use of Wordpress as an alternative content management system to Squiz, to meet needs that Squiz isn't as well suited to and when we are unable to provide the developer resource. Hosted with SiteGround, most sites are for conferences, but also blogs and a few others. So far, none have required to look like the University brand. In fact, they haven't been allowed to, in case they did it poorly. But we have possible contenders for Wordpress that would really benefit from a Victoria theme.
Example site currently live include:
- Experimental Psychology Conference 2019: Standard conference site, of which we have about 10 and growing. All such sites use one of two default themes.
- Best New Zealand Poems: Has its own custom theme, so probably not a candidate.
- MyView: A blog for current students. Uses a (cheap) commercial theme.
The theme work could be split , design and development, or bundled up and done as one piece of work.
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into a design piece, followed by a development/build. Or both could be together.
Requirements are:
- Victoria-like theme: Visitors should see the association with the main University theme, although it can be different. This means the new theme must respect the tone and sentiment of our current theme.
- Should work with our conference site, including the plugins required for this site.
- Flexible: Avoid locking user up in restrictive patterns, as we don't know all the requirements of future sites.
- Maintainable: The theme must be easy to maintain, both as the Wordpress core and other plug ins change, but also for future improvements.
Application checklist for prospective students
We would like to offer prospective students visiting our website a "checklist" to help with the research into study here at Victoria and the actual application process. It would assist the user towards prepare for and make a successful application to study here (and maybe even arivalprepare for arrival), while feeding providing us with information on the stage of the journey that a student is at (and therefore his/her information/services needs ) of the studentat that point of time):
- Cover the main or tasks required to start university study
- Work in our Squiz sites and the Angular app
- Be invoked by entering a name and email address
- Allow individuals to mark off what is done (or not relevant) and what is remaining.Assit
- Assist the University to know the information needs of prospective students, so outbound communications (from Marketo) are personalised and relevant.
- Powered by data that is stored in Marketo, possibly also with client-side cookie values.