{"id":9543,"date":"2015-11-05T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T00:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:40:47","slug":"ufv-launches-redesigned-academic-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2015\/11\/05\/ufv-launches-redesigned-academic-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV launches redesigned academic calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The main updates to the calendar include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mobile-friendly design<\/b>, allowing students and other users to better view and navigate the calendar on phones and tablets.<\/li>\n<li><b>A visual update<\/b>, to better reflect current design standards and to match the upcoming redesign of the rest of UFV\u2019s website.<\/li>\n<li><b>Better SEO<\/b> (search engine optimization), helping users find the information they are looking for through a Google search.<\/li>\n<li><b>Faster-loading pages<\/b>, thanks to cleaner coding throughout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions or concerns about the calendar, feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:caleb.zimmerman@ufv.ca\">University Relations<\/a>. Work will continue in the coming months to redesign other sections of the UFV website to match those already complete, which currently include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/calendar\/current\/\">Academic Calendar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ giving.ufv.ca\/\">our giving site<\/a>., and <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.ufv.ca\/\">our alumni site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/calendar\/current\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/calendar\/current\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Caleb Zimmerman at <a href=\"mailto:caleb.zimmerman@ufv.ca\">caleb.zimmerman@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff;\">11\/13\/2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"UFV launches redesigned academic calendar\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2015\/11\/05\/ufv-launches-redesigned-academic-calendar\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions\/9548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}