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Introducing Revisions: An Easier Way to Undo Changes to Your Content

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We all make mistakes. Now there’s an easier way to undo them. Introducing Revisions! Revisions is basically a log of what changes you’ve made to the content of each page on your site. It keeps a record of who made the changes and how each change differs from the version before it. You can also...

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Undergrad curriculum updates on all websites are now automated

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What if I said you don’t have to manually update the curriculum on your department’s website anymore? I’m confident your reaction would be something like this: via GIPHY Or maybe it's more like this: via GIPHY Either way, it’s not your responsibility anymore. We’ve worked closely with the Division...

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Link Check: All Louisiana.edu Sites Are Now Https

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All of our websites have received a security upgrade! What is https? You may have noticed that the websites are now http s:// instead of http://. That extra “s” is what tells our site visitors and web browsers that our websites are secure. All of our websites now use an SSL certificate (also known...

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How Google Analytics can help improve our websites

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We’re always aiming to make our websites more effective tools. An effective website has the information that prospective students need so they can choose the right program — and the information that our current students need to succeed while they’re here. But how do we know if they’re effective...

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Help us help you: How can we make the websites better?

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We’re embarking on a new adventure! With your help, we’re going to start working on a new look for UL Lafayette’s websites. “What do you mean, with my help?” We want your input! We want to know what you love about the University’s website, what you hate, what could be better, what needs to stay the...

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Update to webforms: What you need to know

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On Wednesday, Jan. 31, the web team updated the webforms capabilities across all of our sites. Long story short, it was time for an upgrade. Here’s what’s changed. Creating conditional fields The way you create conditionals has changed for the better. It’s much easier to set up “if this, then that”...

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How to keep UL Lafayette in your Facebook Feed

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Facebook recently announced that it will alter your News Feed to feature more content from friends and family members while reducing the amount of posts by pages you follow. While this is great for connecting with more friends on the popular social platform, it also means you will miss posts from...

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Best practices for sharing news from other sites

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Here's how to do it effectively, easily, and ethically. You must credit your original source You never want to be accused of stealing someone else’s work, so always credit your source. Ideally, your news story headline should start with “From (news source): (Name of Article).” It makes it clear that...

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Time to squash the rumors – your Drupal site isn’t being rebuilt

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We’ve heard from the rumor mill that people are saying Drupal is going away and that everyone’s sites are being rebuilt. Good news. That is 100% false. We moved everyone into Drupal so that we could easily update the look and layout of your sites without rebuilding them all over again. So basically...

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