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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Carleton’s Shiny New Logo now Live on our Websites!

You may have heard that Carleton went through an extensive rebranding process. The aim was to create a strong and consistent brand to help evolve our profile and reputation. One of the key components to our visual identity is our university logo and it has gotten a facelift! Some of you may have been... More

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

We’re Getting a New Email Marketing Platform!

Newsletters and emails are a great way to share announcements, important information and keep your audience up to date with what is going on in your department. Our goal is to make this entire process easier for you, from newsletter creation to distribution. What makes a good email marketing service? Email marketing software provides... More

Thursday, September 17, 2020

cuTheme: Fall Update

We know many of you are looking forward to moving your websites into our new web theme. Due to other priorities within ITS, we are not yet where we need to be with our new server environment - and we cannot go live with sites in the new theme without this new environment.  We... More

Monday, April 20, 2020

CuTheme Update: What We’ve Been Up To

The last few weeks have been strange (to say the least) but we wanted to check in to let you know that we're still trekking away on the cuTheme project. Our developers are working hard to make sure the theme is ready for roll-out, and as you may have noticed, we've been working to... More

Monday, April 6, 2020

CuTheme Update: 7 Key Changes for Content Editors (Flexible Homepages)

Hey! Yeah, hey - you!  If you’re a regular WordPress user, we’ve got some news to share that's really going to brighten your day. It’s about our new CuTheme which, if you haven’t heard about already, is an update on Carleton’s current theme. Yeah - that’s right. If you’re not already excited, you’re about... More

Thursday, December 5, 2019

CU Theme Update

As you know, we've been working on developing a new theme for our 550 websites.  If this is news to you, I encourage you to read  A New theme for Carleton Websites is Coming well as our last CU Theme Progress Report. As announced at our last Coffee Break, we are aiming to begin roll... More

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

CU Theme Progress Report

As many of you have heard, we are working on developing a new theme for our WordPress websites. About the New Theme Right now we manage, basically, two themes: CMS (powering roughly 500 websites) and Framework (powering about 40 sites). When we talk about the new theme (we’re calling it CU Theme) what we’re... More

Monday, May 27, 2019

Performance Enhancements to the New Carleton Home Page

A lot of what is new about the 2019 iteration of the Carleton home page can be found in the code base. We placed a large amount of importance on performance for the new redesign. Here are some of the changes implemented this time around in this area. This is a technical post summarizing... More

Friday, May 17, 2019

Carleton’s New Home Page Revealed!

Web Services and the Department of University Communications (DUC) have been hard at work developing a new Carleton home page. This past Thursday, we hosted an event to give the Carleton community a sneak peek at what the new home page will look like! Don Cumming from DUC kicked things off by sharing some... More

Monday, May 13, 2019

Changes are Coming to Carleton.ca

Four years ago, we redesigned the Carleton.ca home page and it has served us well by bringing in over 100,000 visitors each month. However, four years is a long time in the digital world and we are happy to say that it’s time for a fresh new look. When approaching the refresh, the Department... More

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