Web Redesign Project, Part 1
Seton Hall’s main page, also known as our “gateway,” is getting an upgrade, kicking off a full web redesign project for the University. Look for the new www.shu.edu index page in the beginning of 2013...
View Article#ChristmasAtTheHall and Instagram
In addition to our normal event Twitter feed based on a hashtag (#ChristmasAtTheHall on www7.shu.edu/christmas), we integrated our first basic jQuery Instagram hashtag feed to one of our CommonSpot...
View ArticleWeb Redesign Project, Part 2
President Esteban recently said that “spring holds the promise of new beginnings”. This holds true for the University homepage, which received a delayed redesign this week. As originally planned for...
View ArticleNotice to CommonSpot Users from PaperThin
Paperthin sent Web Development a couple of messages regarding recent browser changes and how they affect our use of Commonspot 6.1. On February 27, Microsoft began an automatic push of IE 10 which...
View ArticleNetwork Connectivity Outage
The University experienced a network connectivity outage beginning 7 a.m. this morning. As of 8 p.m. tonight, University IT Services has restored all network and server connectivity on campus. All...
View ArticleColdFusion Upgrade on March 14, 9 a.m.
On Thursday morning, starting at 9 a.m., the web team together with Systems Support, will upgrade Cold Fusion to the latest version, in preparation for the Commonspot upgrade. Cold Fusion is the...
View ArticleCold Fusion Upgrade Postponed
During the upgrade process on March 14, Web Development found out that CF 9.0.1 would have to be uninstalled in order to install CF 9.0.2. Since this would require more downtime than originally...
View ArticleNavigation Updates
We have made a few changes to the main global navigation of www.shu.edu, including the addition of links to the President’s Office, the Provost’s Office and the University Core Curriculum. We have also...
View ArticleCommonspot Upgrade March 26
As a reminder, the Web Development team will be working with the vendor (Paperthin) to upgrade our Commonspot environment on Tuesday, March 26. All the issues that we encountered have been corrected...
View ArticleBack on Production Servers
Please make sure to check out your websites, including your authoring capability in the new environment. For those of you who are interested, please take a look at the attached guide – warning: it’s...
View ArticlePost-Upgrade CommonSpot Bugs
We have experienced a few issues since our CommonSpot upgrade last week. The Web Team is currently working to correct these problems, and needs to restart the authoring server. Authoring will be...
View ArticleNews Display Page Update
We have replaced the related headlines news render on the side of all news display pages to a live Twitter feed of all @shupirate tweets, which also displays news stories as they are published. This...
View ArticleCommonSpot Authoring Disabled for Maintenance
The web team continues to work closely with senior technical support at PaperThin on a few problems resulting from last week’s update, and needs to update our production servers. Authoring will be...
View ArticleCommonSpot Authoring Disabled for Maintenance
Authoring will be disabled briefly to accommodate server maintenance at 3:30 PM today. Service is expected to resume minutes afterwards. No public site outage is expected.
View ArticleCampus Digest Send Date Moves from Fridays to Mondays
Each week the University’s news and events are sent out via the Campus Digest newsletter. Please note the delivery day has changed from every Friday to every Monday. This request comes from University...
View ArticleAuthoring will be disabled at 4:30 today
In order to update our ColdFusion service, we will need to disable authoring for about 10 minutes at 4:30 p.m. today. Another update will be provided as soon as authoring is restored. Thank you.
View ArticleShare Your #HallPhotos
Every week we will gather your photos of University life – campus, events, people, etc. – and post them on our website, Facebook, and Instagram accounts. Our favorite photo each week will receive a...
View ArticleCommonSpot Supported Browsers
CommonSpot’s content management interface is entirely browser-based; there is no need to install or maintain client software. Pages are viewable from most standard browsers including Chrome, Safari,...
View ArticleNew Website Feedback Form
Have a question, comment or problem about a shu.edu website page or site? We’ve launched a new basic form for everyone to let us know. This is the quickest way to send feedback directly to the web team...
View ArticleQuotes, Apostrophes and the Site Promotion Element
The Web Team has identified an issue where straight quotes and apostrophes are sometimes rendered as code in our dynamic site promotion element text fields. When this happens, the solution is to...
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