http://ucanr.edu/blogs/wat/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed What's new with the Web Action Team en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:36:55 PST Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:36:55 PST UC ANR While you wait for the new "mobile-friendly" Site Builder design to launch in early April, you can enjoy two new features to the design tool right now! Custom Header Photos Our now departed designer, Alex, did a great job curating photos for the header library. Each photo he found or received was color-corrected, resized, and generally buffed to a high shine. Now that he is no longer in this role, we've decided to open up the design tool to allow users to upload header photos. Here's how it...
]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:35:28 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9604&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucanr.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9604
]]> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:20:07 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9589&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9589
]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:50:40 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9563&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9563 If you work outside of the office occasionally, regularly, or constantly, you probably need to bring some computing devices with you. In this video I present a few of the devices that ANR is supplying to Advisors and discuss some of the pros and cons of each type of device.
]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:42:43 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9556&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9556 After serving the division for five years, Alex Zangeneh-Azam is leaving the Web Action Team. Alex has had his hand in the design of just about every web application created or refreshed since he arrived. He's also been our main customer service support person for Site Builder, Surveys, Blogs, Collaborative Tools and most recently, Adobe Connect. Alex's cool temperament has earned him a great deal of praise over the years, and his departure will be felt by all of those he has assisted. If...
]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:31:08 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9289&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucanr.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9289 Hello all, we've enhanced our text assets as requested: We've added two background color choices to enhance sections of your site. Please use these options sparingly, as adding too many to a site could visually deter your visitor. To try these options, simply choose a text in Site builder 3, and choose either "Light" or "Dark". Make sure to update your asset and preview. This is how it will look: How about that! here's our sample page: http://ucanr.edu/sites/sb3help/Background_Color/
]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:48:13 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9228&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Alex Zangeneh-Azam http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9228 We've made a few changes to Site Builder and our Blog system that are worth sharing with you. Indeed, we should probably Pin a Tweet to our Wall and throw it in one of our Circles. We've upgraded the Sharing feature of Site Builder and the Blogs to allow for the inclusion of a Twitter handle. This is your Twitter ID, the name following the "@" symbol. You can use a Twitter ID to locate a profile on their site, like this example: http://twitter.com/ANRWebGuy. On the the page properties of...
]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:52:32 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8944&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucanr.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8944
]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:37:15 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8904&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8904 Image sliders allow you to present your graphic content in an active manner. Instead of including one image, or a gallery of images, a slider will automatically move from image to image or allow the user to click through images using arrows. The trend towards using image sliders to display content has made them nearly ubiquitous; however, there are voices out there suggesting that conversion rates plummet when image sliders are in place (conversion rates are a measure of when a web site...
]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:18:09 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8899&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucanr.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8899
]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:35:36 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8827&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8827 Hello ANR! Many of you have been asking about the Workplace Environment survey, and the fact that it does not appear on your Portal. At this time not all ANR staff/academics are expected to take the survey. Many of our people will actually be taking the survey based on their campus affiliation. Davis, Berkeley and Riverside will be sending the survey out to their employees in the near future. Depending upon your ANR/campus affiliation you may be part of the campus group. If you went into...
]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:19:34 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8731&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8731 One of the sad realities of email is that all of us will at some point be subjected to "phishing" attempts. Wikipedia's definition of phishing is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. There are some things to know about your institutions and about these messages that will protect you and keep you from becoming a victim of these scams. About your institutions......
]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:39:54 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8665&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed damon@ucanr.edu(Damon DiPietro) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8665
]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:46:18 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8656&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8656 The Geek Squad Desktop Support Program is a yearlong pilot program that contracts out Best Buy’s technical support, known as the Geek Squad, to provide on-site computer/printer/network assistance in a variety of areas. These include but are not limited to: Computer hardware problems such as failing hard disks and other failing devices Connection issues between computers and other devices such as printers Operating system services including diagnosis and repair Virus and malware...
]]> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:55:10 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8648&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed damon@ucanr.edu(Damon DiPietro) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8648 Sometimes the list of collaborative tools can make your portal look like the dead sea scrolls. To help manage this, we've added a "hide" feature that will remove your unneeded collaborative tools groups from your portal, making it easy to focus on the ones you need. Don't worry! They will not be deleted. They will appear on your Collaborative tools group list within the system, just not on your portal. To hide your Collaborative Tools group: First, login to your portal. Next, click on the...
]]> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:40:44 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8468&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Alex Zangeneh-Azam http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8468 The Web Action team (namely Dave) has been hard at work to help you find easier methods for Search Engine Optimization, visibility on social sites, and lastly, dealing with broken links. Let's Start with Search Engine Optimization (SEO): "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's algorithmic search results. Google analyzes over 200 “signals” about your web site, and there can be up to 50 variants...
]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:08:06 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8436&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Alex Zangeneh-Azam http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8436 At long last, we are flipping the switch to the new and improved Survey system, hooray! Finally, a sigh of relief can be heard throughout ANR, thanks to the super work of the Web Action team! The new survey survey system not only has a slick, clean new look, its interface has a sharp responsive feature making it viewable on all mobile devices and tablets. We have added many features that you requested, and one of the top most new favorites is adding a check payment option - omitting the need...
]]> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:10:02 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8403&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Alex Zangeneh-Azam http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8403 At long last, we now have a simple option in place for you to accept donations using Site Builder. Empower your site to accept ANR gifts within minutes! The method is simple, all you need to do is add a Donation asset to your site using Site Builder. This asset connects your site directly to specific funds set up on the UC Davis campus donations tool. Once in place, ANR donors are able to make donations online by simply clicking on the "Make a gift" button that appears on your site. Please...
]]> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:25:07 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8208&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Alex Zangeneh-Azam http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8208 An effective and easy means of adding a playable video clip to you site is by embedding a code provided by You Tube found on the page displaying the clip. To Begin: Upload your video to YouTube You will need an account for YouTube. Recently there have been shared accounts created specifically for County groups, organizations such as 4-H, and other such groups - so check with your department to see if one exists. It is highly recommended that most departments/programs should establish a...
]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:59:41 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8189&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Alex Zangeneh-Azam http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8189 I'm doing it. I'm moving my entire worklife to 'The Cloud'. It's a leap of faith that I'm taking in the same way that I take most leaps: headfirst with my eyes closed. So last Wednesday I started a grand experiment: I formatted my entire computer, without copying anything. I didn't have ANY backup. But, I did not lose a single file. About 4 months ago I put my MyDocuments folder up on Microsoft's SkyDrive service. All of my files live there now. (Instructions if you want to try...
]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:37:39 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8015&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucanr.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8015