Creative Arts Web Publishing Updates

Meeting Schedule (Demos, publishing updates, feedback)

2x month (now through start of fall 2012)
Friday 2pm (1/2 hour max)

View all upcoming meeting dates:
http://www.doodle.com/utnfcad2b4szyd44

Homepage

Homepages will be updated over the next week to include upcoming events (next 14 days), and recent news (announcements, blog posts, news in brief).

Example:
http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/

Follow/Subscribe to site

Visitors can subscribe to site by e-mail to a site’s default RSS feed. E-mail updates will include announcements, events, blog posts, and news in brief. Sign up form is displayed in the sidebar on the homepage.

News and Blogs

News sections will be updated to display latest announcements, blog posts, and news in brief.

Content from external blogs can be imported directly into department sites via RSS feed--Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, YouTube are all supported. Any imported blog posts can be or unpublished by a department site administrator. Contact lmjr@sfsu.edu to add new blogs on site.

Note: Blog posts are truncated to 256 characters on main blog listing view to provide a fast loading experience for wireless connections. All content is displayed on information page.

Student blog, truncated summaries (KSFS Media blog)

Program blog (Design and Industry VCD blog)

Faculty blog (BECA Faculty blog)

Photos

Need photos for department imagestripes (image collage across top of page), page thumbnails, and College of Liberal & Creative Arts website project. Individual photos can posted to department flickr accounts by e-mail. Contact lmjr@sfsu.edu for more information about upload by e-mail or if you have a photo collection to share.

College of Liberal & Creative Arts Facebook project

Seeking photos and descriptions about department projects to post as brief profiles on the new College of Liberal & Creative Arts Facebook. A few profiles have been posted for college centers and institutes. Department projects and groups to come.

Content format for college organization profiles

1. Title
2. Mission or summary statement
3. Website link
4. Photo of organization leader, 1 or more photos of organization members. 

Visit the College of Liberal & Creative Arts Facebook page to view updates:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/College-of-Liberal-Creative-Arts-San-Francisco-State-University/321473757908187

(P.S. Like and share this page!)

Announcements

Designed to be used for news and updates from the department office. Updates can be short or long form (no character limit).

Note: If reposting a story from another source--like Creative Arts--post a short summary and link back to the main article.

Announcement w. image and link to source (Design and Industry)

Short form announcement (Creative Arts)

Events (Department calendar)

Some updates have been made to the events section navigation. Depending on amount of events published, upcoming events navigation links in the right sidebar can now be grouped by month or by month, year.

In progress: Creative Arts events will be automatically published to department sites. Departments can still publish their own event nodes.

Basic Events navigation (Design and Industry)

Advanced events navigation, grouped by month (Music and Dance)