Archives: Carleton CMS Blog

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

CU Ecommerce update

For the first time in eleven years CU Ecommerce enjoyed its very first planned outage last week. If you have an ecommerce page live and in action you should have received an email about this as well as a reassurance that we would only take the service out of play for four hours, which... More

Friday, December 22, 2023

Accessibility Wrapped 2023!

This is a list of the top web accessibility achievements at a very granular level. Looking through the list you might think this is a list of problems and mistakes. But let’s turn that frown upside down: the fact is that the web maintaining community at Carleton does not create the issues on the... More

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Choices, choices: migration planning for cuTheme

We are getting close! Very soon we will be starting to move websites from the CCMS and Framework templates into the new cuTheme. cuTheme and the new WordPress Gutenberg admin interface are all about choice and with the migration process we are extending that idea: You will have a choice on how your site... More

Thursday, November 30, 2023

cuTheme Update – November 2023

For the past several months, we have been working away on cuTheme, our newest web template. We are excited to share the latest updates and announce that we are close to launching. Overview Our initial pilot of cuTheme closed early last year. We paused the installation of cuTheme to work on a new version.... More

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Coming out on top: the new top nav menu in cuTheme

One exciting development we can’t wait to bring to you with cuTheme is the top navigation menu. Top refers to the position of the navigation in the new template - it runs horizontally across the top of all your pages. It is a real leap for us as well as for you, but once... More

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

cuTheme Ready – Prepare your Site for a Seamless Migration!

Reviewing your website thoroughly before migrating it, lets you start off on the right foot and can make for a smoother transition. It is also beneficial to your current visitors! Here are four steps to help you prepare your website for migration to cuTheme. 1. Do a Content Audit Evaluate the relevance and quality... More

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Back end block checks: helping you to help your website

If you clicked on the headline for this post and expected an article on a player who stops the quarterback from scoring a touchdown then congratulations - you know less about American football than I do (and that is quite the achievement). Instead, today we are talking about a new feature that you will... More

Monday, November 6, 2023

Defence is the best form of defence: Protecting forms on your website

In the last few days of October we were alerted to a bot attack on a form on one of Carleton's hundreds of websites. Because the email account to which the form submissions were sent is not monitored, the attack went unreported for a longer period of time. In just a few days a... More

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Menu Magic: Create a Great User Experience

A well-structured and user-friendly menu can make or break the user experience on your website. As a content manager, your job is to create a menu that allows people to easily find what they are looking for. In this post, I share some best practices for creating effective website navigation. A well-thought-out menu enhances... More

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Overly overlaid with over-promising: Why we don’t use an accessibility overlay

Too good to be true… You may have seen them. Often, they are represented by a blue circle with the white icon of a person: accessibility overlay. Such a great idea, it seems. With the click of a mouse, a user can select different font sizes, change background/foreground colours, hide images on the page... More

Monday, September 11, 2023

End of an error: removing the HTML code editor in WordPress

There are a lot of great improvements to the Carleton web template on the horizon when we launch cuTheme. Something we are excited for is the removal of the ability to edit a page by adding HTML, Javascript, and styling. In this post we outline why we need to make this critical move. There... More

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Back to School: Ensuring a Happy, Healthy, Homepage

Back to school is an exciting and busy time for most of us. It is where we reorganize ourselves to ensure a fresh start for the upcoming school year. For students, that may look more like organizing school supplies and timetables, and for staff and faculty, that looks more like organizing sites. If you... More

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