Making Mobile the Default Brent Swisher and Daniel Slaughter Grand Valley State University
Jul 20, 2015
Making Mobile the DefaultBrent Swisher and Daniel SlaughterGrand Valley State University
The Web Team
CMS 3++
Brainstormed
● Pre-Built Content Templates● Easier way to layout content● Save pages as Draft● More flexibility in header images● Automatic Photo Resizing● And 65 other things...
What They Wanted
● Mobile Friendly● Force usability best practices
○ Navigation Items○ Content Hierarchy
● Maintain Similar URLs for SEO● Easier for developers (us!) to write custom
forms
What We Wanted
Go!
Content Chunks (Admin)
DEMO
Content Chunks (Public)
DEMO
Navigation
● Looked at CMS 3 to see number of items● Attempted to limit based on usability
guidelines● Horizontal vs. Vertical Navigation● How we helped out users
○ Card Sorts○ http://www.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort.htm
● Automatic image resizing
● Tags, not folders● Multiple image
sizes for different resolutions
File Assets
Involvement
Alumni Relations CMS
● Their old website had a custom layout
● They were using custom functionality we needed to account for
Alumni Relations CMS
● Using the default CMS4 template, their new website was bold, had showcased features up front, and was mobile friendly
● 6 Initial Seminars● Helped us see
people’s feedback immediately
● Created a YouTube video
Training Sessions
http://gvsu.edu/s/Dp
Adoption Statistics
Difficulties
That’s Neat!
● User driven Q&A● Anyone can ask
questions or answer them
● Web Team can promote answers
CMS Help
● On every page● Allows anyone to
report an issue● Automatically
contacts the site’s administrators
Report a Problem
Helpful Tools
● CKEditor.com● jQuery.com
○ Datepicker● Bootstrap● Responsive Image Gallery ● Google Analytics● Reinvigorate
Questions?