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Web Site News and Updates

Monthly Web Updates

News

To improve the online experience for our HPU audience, the Web Team will audit the highpoint.edu website May-August 2022.

Coming Soon

  • Additional standards will be included moving forward
  • Creation of standardized page templates
    • provides consistency across lower-level pages
    • makes it even easier to create content for certain types of content
  • Migration Plan for Gutenberg

News

In order for our Web site to keep up with the growing success of our school, we have created a few tools and processes that will help our web admins best create content for our site.   Our primary goal is to create a beautiful site that will allow our users to easily find the information that they are looking for so that they can accomplish their tasks.

Updates to Standards and Guidelines
  • Creation of Global Web Design Standards
  • Collection of Online Web Training
  • Better Communication of updates and upgrades to the website
  • Clearly defined roles and responsibilities for the Web team, Site Admins, content creators, and IT (as it relates to the Web).

Updates in this release

Updates to HPU Theme
  • TikTok icon added to the social media section of the footer.
  • Flicker Icon has been deprecated

 

Updates to Blocks

Please note that all sites do not have access to all blocks.  Some of these changes may not apply to your site.

  • Student Outcomes Block
    • Removed default value text “Class of 2020 -“
    • Added placeholder text “Class of YYYY” to indicate the input for this field.
    • Admin can now enter the correct Class of date.
  • Countdown Block
    • You can now add the hour to the countdown block
  • Pathways to admissions
    • you can now add up to 7 items to the list
Updates to Plugins
  • Canto
  • Pop-up Maker

Coming Soon

  • Additional standards will be included moving forward
  • Creation of standardized page templates
    • provides consistency across lower-level pages
    • makes it even easier to create content for certain types of content
  • Migration Plan for Gutenberg