OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 2019

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Empowering site managers to make the best McGill websites

 

 

New features and updates

 

Enchanté

McGill Profiles now includes an additional built-in menu link for the French Profiles List. You'll find the Personnes menu item in the disabled section of your site's menu structure. Enable it to introduce your visitors to people en français. Learn about McGill Profiles...

 

Sending out an SMS

Don't put that message in a bottle. Engage your WMS site visitors by using the sms: protocol and create links to telephone numbers. When an SMS link is clicked on a mobile device, it initiates a text message to the number. You can also use tel: links to let users initiate phone calls from cell phones and some other devices. Read more about these protocols...

 

That's so meta

Want to improve SEO (search engine optimization) for your site? You'll need to take an introspective look at your content. WMS Site Managers can now update and fine-tune meta tags to ensure that pages are defined with meaningful and effective meta data. Get details on working with meta tags...

 

Emojis!

All WMS sites were recently updated to support a wider range of alphabets and character sets in order to display more languages. The best part — and what we've been secretly waiting for — is the ability to now include emojis in content! 🤣💁🏻‍♀️😍👍🎉 Read about support for non-Roman languages... 

 

 

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The WSG community

 

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It's a date!

 

Reserve your seat at the upcoming Web Services presentation:

  • Dec 4 – downtown
  • Dec 9 – Mac campus

If you own or manage either a WMS or non-centrally supported website — a virtual host, faculty-hosted, or blogs.mcgill.ca site — come discover all the new services and resources to help you improve your website.

 

You won't want to miss this event brought to you by Digital Communications (Communications & External Relations) and the Web Services Group (IT Services).

 

Register now→

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Come see our new home

 

Content from the Web Management System website (/wms) can now be found on the new and comprehensive Web Services site (/web-services).

 

The new site is a collaborative initiative between Digital Communications (Communications & External Relations) and the Web Services Group (IT Services).

 

Make it your one-stop shop to find all the support and resources you need for planning, designing and building your website.

 

Visit the site →

 

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Webform policy changes on the way

 

Stay tuned for new measures aimed to protect user data in WMS webforms.

 

One new measure when implemented, will consist of expiring submissions after one month.

 

Now is the time to get into the habit of regularly downloading submissions. It's easy to do and even files can be included with the downloaded results.

 

See instructions →

 

 

Did you know?

 

WSG Digest archives

 

Catch up on past issues of the WSG Digest that you may have missed online!

 

View archives

 

Learn more

WMS how-to documentation can be found in the IT Knowledge Base.

 

For ongoing updates, visit the Web Services website.

 

 

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