UM-Flint University Relations

FormAssembly is an easy-to-use form creation tool that makes data collection easy, and is available to UM-Flint faculty and staff. FormAssembly forms integrate with your Drupal website and may be able to do more than you realize. To help you use FormAssembly to its potential, ITS has scheduled beginner and intermediate training sessions. Both sessions will be held […]

If your New Year’s resolution included getting your unit’s website in better shape, we’re here to help! Below are the dates for Drupal open sessions which have been scheduled through May 2014. Sessions to be held in 431 French Hall: Wednesday, January 15, 2 – 4 p.m. Thursday, January 23, 1 – 3 p.m. Tuesday, […]

UM-Flint’s Offices of University Relations and ITS are still developing a full-fledged, fully operational Web/Drupal/Content guide. Until that’s ready, you can get some broad, foundational content strategy basics via our first iteration (of many) of a Web Content Guide. Some specific best practices have surfaced since the launch of the new, Drupal-powered umflint.edu on October 1. Reference […]

With Drupal as UM-Flint’s new content management system, opportunities to implement new strategies for getting the right content in front of the right audience at the right time are now possible. In time, we will formalize processes—such as consistent naming and tagging of various types of content—making strategies like cross-unit content sharing even simpler and […]

The following update was sent to campus by email this week. The launch of the new UM-Flint website has been successful thanks to the high level of team work and collaboration across all university units. Thank you for the important role your department has played and will continue to play in keeping the university website […]

“What is the most important information our most important audience needs to know today?”

Thank you, Drupal users, for all of your hard work leading up to this week’s web launch! Our new website is live to the world, but the work on the web is far from done. To help you get more familiar with Drupal and make the most of your department’s website, open Drupal sessions have […]

DO If you have a lot of text: Consider using a 2-7-3 layout, because a 2-10 can put too many words on a line making text difficult to read, particularly for people with certain vision problems or dyslexia. Avoid accordions as they will shove content off the screen defeating the purpose of accordions Things that […]

Hot off the Drupal email press: We are pleased to report that the UM-Flint website migration project is complete. All content from the current UM-Flint website has been moved into the new Drupal Content Management System. Training is well underway, and nearly every department has sent someone to training in preparation for the launch on […]

The following message was sent to Drupal users by Sean Bellows. If you did not receive this email, but would like to be included in email updates like these, please contact Alaina Wiens in  University Relations. As we move closer to the October 1 launch of the new university website, we are working to make many […]