UFV has redesigned its online academic calendar. The changes were made along with the publishing of the new Winter/Summer 2016 calendar on Nov 2.
The main updates to the calendar include:
- Mobile-friendly design, allowing students and other users to better view and navigate the calendar on phones and tablets.
- A visual update, to better reflect current design standards and to match the upcoming redesign of the rest of UFV’s website.
- Better SEO (search engine optimization), helping users find the information they are looking for through a Google search.
- Faster-loading pages, thanks to cleaner coding throughout.
The redesign was completed solely by in-house staff, thanks to collaboration between University Relations, the Office of the Secretariat, and IT Services. A major, multi-month project, it included many hours of behind-the-scenes work to manually clean up code and solve technical issues. Since the initial changes were made, traffic on the calendar has nearly doubled.
If you have questions or concerns about the calendar, feel free to contact University Relations. Work will continue in the coming months to redesign other sections of the UFV website to match those already complete, which currently include the Academic Calendar, our giving site., and our alumni site.
http://www.ufv.ca/calendar/current/
For more information, contact Caleb Zimmerman at caleb.zimmerman@ufv.ca
11/13/2015