{"id":42595,"date":"2016-12-05T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=42595"},"modified":"2016-12-04T18:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T22:56:58","slug":"ut-homepage-updated-to-improve-communication-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_05_2016\/ut-homepage-updated-to-improve-communication-user-experience","title":{"rendered":"UT homepage updated to improve communication, user experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new homepage for The University of Toledo embraces advances in technology to improve communication and appeal to a broader audience.<\/p>\n<p>Launched Dec. 5, the updated <a href=\"http:\/\/utoledo.edu\">utoledo.edu<\/a> features bolder headlines and additional opportunities to share news, a new video feature, and \u201cUT at a glance\u201d facts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=42620\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/homepage-2016.jpg\" alt=\"homepage-2016\" width=\"540\" height=\"327\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/homepage-2016.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/homepage-2016-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>\u201cTechnology is ever-changing, and we are pleased to continue to keep the UT homepage and website current in trends, best practices, compliance and features that are appealing to our key audiences,\u201d said Kathleen Walsh, director of web development. <\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s Office of Marketing and Communications and the Center for Creative Instruction collaborated for months researching, designing and building the updated version of the homepage. Research showed key audiences desired interesting facts about UT prominently displayed on the website and had an interest in accessing high-quality videos about the University, which coincides with UT\u2019s efforts to increase the use of video to engage people and provide a prominent place to feature that work.<\/p>\n<p>Prospective students will continue to be able to find their programs and easily connect with admission resources, which is a primary use of the University\u2019s homepage. There is extensive work underway to revise all of the web pages describing UT\u2019s majors, which will be easier to access with the homepage updates. Prospective students will benefit from those features in the new layout, as well as more easily learn interesting news and facts about the University they are looking to attend. <\/p>\n<p>The responsive design works in all web browsers and adjusts to the user\u2019s technology to be viewed on a computer monitor, tablet or phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT launches a new homepage to share more news and videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42621,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42595\/revisions\/42621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}