DIGITAL TRAINING FOR WEBSITE EDITORS
The Digital team offers WordPress training several times a month. If you have a special need, we can schedule a training session with you and your team.
Building for User Experience
A good web design takes into consideration the audience accessing the web content, the primary devices they use, the various states needed for each element (initial, hover, active) and optimization of delivery performance.
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Information architects make websites make sense. Their work overlaps with that of graphic designers, user experience experts, project managers, and front-end developers. But while designers focus on color and typography and developers deal with code, the organization of information is the information architect’s main gig. Just like the architect of a building makes decisions about placement of columns, windows and doors, a web page architect might ask, “What information belongs on our home page? Should we put team bios on our About page or with our contact information? Will more people click this button if we put it on the right instead of the left?”
Georgia State uses Slickplan to develop the site information architecture and user experience framework.
Building for Accessibility
Ensuring that web content meets accessibility guidelines is always important. As a public university, it is even more so. Accessibility requirements are developed to ensure that content works for people with disabilities.
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Understanding Analytics
Google Analytics is the industry standard for web analytics. This powerful tool provides the means to track, analyze, and report on-site visits, marketing goals, and ad revenue generated from your site.
Editing and Building with WordPress Basics
We use WPBakery Page Builder combined with the Ultimate Add-ons for WPBakery. To get started, you need to go through some basic tutorials about how to use WordPress and these tools.
WPBakery Basics
- WPBakery Page Builder Tutorial for Beginners
- WPBakery Page Builder Navigation Interface
- Drag and Drop in WPBakery Page Builder Explained
- Add WPBakery Page Builder Row and Column
- Add and Edit Text in WPBakery Page Builder
- Element Design Options
- Create Tabs, Tours and Accordions
- Clone Elements in WPBakery Page Builder
Ultimate Add-ons Basics
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University Policies
Website editors must follow university policies, which cover the functionality and content editors may add to their unit websites. This website functionality and content may include but are not limited to accessibility, privacy, and copyrighted material. The list of links is maintained in good faith to represent some of the frequently used policies, but individual units may have more extensive requirements. Questions about policies and websites may be directed to cbenson8@gsu.edu.
Legal Statement: https://www.gsu.edu/legal-statement
Privacy Notices: https://www.gsu.edu/privacy-notices/
Web Accessibility: https://gsu.policystat.com/policy/7446725/latest
Security Awareness, Training and Education Standard: https://gsu.policystat.com/policy/8580232/latest
Data Classification Standard: https://gsu.policystat.com/policy/8437839/latest
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