April Newsletter

By Daniel Cho | Posted on: April 21, 2012 at 10:41 am | Posted in Newsletter | Comments Off

As the semester is coming to a close, we thought we would share an update on all of the great things that have been happening at web.unc.edu! Enjoy the latest newsletter from the web.unc.edu team.

News & Documentation

The New Events Calendar Plugin WordPress Smileys
Create a Final Project iWeb Sites Cannot Be Uploaded to Web.unc.edu
TinyMCE Advanced Plugin Guidelines for Themes and Plugins
What Anchors are and How to Use Them

Updated Servers

Due to the growing popularity with web.unc.edu, we have updated our servers to help maintain high performance during peak user times, and have several other upgrades planned for this summer.  Although the update adds stability and performance, there are no major changes to the user-side and will not effect the way users work in through their dashboard. Thanks to everyone for their patience in our transition.

Spotlight: New Sites

The development of web.unc.edu wouldn’t be possible without the participation of UNC programs, classes, professors,  departments, and individuals (aka you all!). The following are examples of some recent sites created on here. Check them out and see if there is anything you can take away and add to your own site!

Program Site Example: http://summer.unc.edu

 

Miscellaneous Example: http://evecarsonscholarship.unc.edu/

 

Statistics

Below is an overview of different statistics about visitors since the last newsletter (October 4th, 2011).

Overall, since we have started we have had 1,346,917 visits and 4,310,260 pageviews. Thank you all for your support and for making these statistics possible!

Getting Help

As always, the web.unc.edu team is here to help in what ever way we can.  Be sure to check out our getting help page.  There you will find the following things:

  1. General Documentation – Anything and everything related to WordPress
  2. Carolina Theme – We have over 150 themes, but the default one and best one is the Carolina theme.  Here you can find info and tutorials for getting the most out of this theme
  3. FAQ – The most common questions we see.
  4. Training Videos - Here is a link to full length training classes, and short 5 minutes just in time tutorials.
  5. Submit a Help Request – Tried to find your answer but still stumped?  Or need to do something that only we can do?

October 2011 Newsletter

By Anne McCarthy | Posted on: October 4, 2011 at 12:52 pm | Posted in Newsletter | Comments (0)

The new semester has started and we have lots of new things to share with you about what is going on with web.unc.edu! Enjoy the latest newsletter from the web.unc.edu team.

News & Documentation:

Adding Forms to your Site Over 50 Training Video’s and Counting
Use A Different Domain on your Site Redirect a Domain or Page
Redesigned Adding Users Interface Privacy and Onyen Authenticated Settings
10 Tips to Get the Most out of Your Class Blog Pages with Examples of Websites
Installing and Using Google Analytics Creating a Movie for your Website
Adding an Events Calendar Adding a Twitter Widget
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Statistics

As of October 4, 2011

  • Total Sites: 1,692
  • Total Users: 4,087
September Statistics
  • 47,250 Visitors
  • 71,237 Visits
  • 232,233 PageViews

Visitors overview since January 2010

New Staff

We are happy to inform you that we have 7 new members of the web.unc.edu staff! They are all workstudy students and are eager to help you engage and navigate web.unc.edu as well as expand it to help reach more UNC community members. We look forward to seeing what they have to offer!

Upcoming

We have been working hard on some speed improvements (hopefully you have already seen many of them), and introducing default content on new sites based on categories.

Getting Help

As always, the web.unc.edu team is here to help in what ever way we can.  Be sure to check out our getting help page.  There you will find the following things:

  1. General Documentation – Anything and everything related to WordPress
  2. Carolina Theme – We have over 150 themes, but the default one and best one is the Carolina theme.  Here you can find info and tutorials for getting the most out of this theme
  3. FAQ – The most common questions we see.
  4. Training Videos - Here is a link to full length training classes, and short 5 minutes just in time tutorials.
  5. Submit a Help Request – Tried to find your answer but still stumped?  Or need to do something that only we can do?

April Newsletter

By OASIS | Posted on: April 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm | Posted in Newsletter | Comments (2)

Current stats, top sites, news items since the last newsletter, featured sites.  It’s your semi-occasional update from the web.unc.edu team.  Read More »

January 2011 Newsletter

By OASIS | Posted on: January 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm | Posted in Newsletter | Comments (1)

It’s a new semester, so that means it’s time for another newsletter from your favorite web.unc.edu folks. Lots has happened in the past little while.  Here are a few spotlights!

Current Status

As of today we have 760 sites, and 1,489 users on web.unc.edu and more signing up every day! :)  I just took a look at traffic and we have had 7,911 visitors to web.unc.edu sites in the past week alone, and 39,911 pageviews.   Remember, you can set up analytics for your site by going to Settings – Google Analytics in the Dashboard of your site. Read More »

October 2009 Newsletter

By OASIS | Posted on: September 20, 2010 at 10:33 am | Posted in Newsletter | Comments (1)

Hey Everyone!  I thought it would be great to spotlight some of the great things going on on the UNC Digital Commons project on a somewhat  regular basis.  So sit back, relax, and enjoy a little update from your favorite Web.unc.edu folks!

By the Numbers:

What started out as a little pilot last Fall has rapidly grown to 452 sites and 915 users as of today! Read More »