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We're live!

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As of 2:00am this morning, the initial publish was completed, so I'm pleased to announce that the new CI web site is live! Since 6:00am this morning, Web Refresh implementation team members have been checking the 291 pages/sites in migration phases 1A-1D to verify their completion. As of 9:45am, over 94% of those pages have been migrated successfully and are working properly.

In addition, key web applications including myCI, the campus directory, and the Events Calendar were migrated to the new mobile-friendly template this morning by 9:00am.

We're continuing to find and fix minor issues as we find them (or as reported). If you come across any problems or have a suggestion, please email the T&C Help Desk at helpdesk@csuci.edu or call 805-437-8552.

Special thanks to Daniel Martinez, Ryan Garcia, Kevin Craig, and all of the Web Services assistants for their hard work and dedication to make the transition to the new site design as seamless as possible.


Migration has begun!

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Out with the old, in with the new!

We have started to publish the new CI web site to live.

The updated home page is now live. The top-level pages that link from the home page as still in the process of being published.

One little amazing factoid: it was 9 years ago today, August 14 2005, that the previous iteration of the CI web site launched!

2 weeks until launch!

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The prep work for our August 15 web site launch is reaching a fever pitch right now.


The web site content freeze is underway. Since July 15, Web Services team members have been migrating web site content and making adjustments to the design and organization of content in preparation for the launch. In addition, Web Services has applied the new mobile-friendly web site template to all existing pages in the designated migration phases. View the list of migration phases here.  The Web Refresh team is targeting sites in Phases 1A-1D for launch on August 15.

The final working preview of the CI web site is located at:
http://beta.harbor.csuci.edu   

We recommend that you also try it out on your smartphone or a tablet to get a better sense of how the new web site will work across different devices.

Between now and August 5, we have requested that campus units/departments/programs subject matter experts visit http://beta.harbor.csuci.edu and review any web pages/sites closely associated with their unit/program to verify that content and interactive elements have migrated as expected. A list of sites and migration phases can be found here for reference. 

If you find problems or would like to suggest corrections or changes, please report discovered issues via the “Give us your feedback” link at the top of each page in the preview. During this period, the Web Refresh team shall repair all discovered issues and re-publish them for further review/preview, to the best of its ability.

Please report any significant issues by August 5. Issues reported after August 5 may not be addressed before launch on August 15, but will be addressed after the launch.

We also invite you to celebrate this important milestone with us at the Web Site Launch reception, starting at 11am on Monday, August 18, 2014. Food and beverages will be served. If you can attend, please RSVP for the Web Site Launch reception. 

Feel free to contact Peter Mosinskis at peter.mosinskis@csuci.edu with any questions, and thanks for your ongoing support of this important project.

Updates from a busy summer

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It's been a busy summer, and things are progressing nicely with the Web Refresh.

The two Social Media workshops were well-attended. On-demand video recordings of the sessions are available to members of the campus community; please email Melissa Bergem (melissa.bergem@csuci.edu) to request access.

We continue to work with Stamats on a weekly basis to iron out issues that arise as we refine our information architecture. Members of the core team have conferred with peers at UC San Diego and Cal Poly Pomona about their recent experiences with deploying responsive web site designs.

Over the summer, three style tiles were developed to visually capture the identity and mood of CI. These examples were reviewed by the core team and presented to the President for feedback. Ultimately one was selected to best represent CI as a connected, 21st-century campus of innovation, and the selected mood will be used to guide visual design decisions moving forward.

As the visual design continues to take shape, members of the core team have continued to meet with subject matter experts from key campus areas to gather feedback and demonstrate progress on our functional prototype, including new functionality that will be available for helping students match their interests to the programs offered at CI. Templates and a web style guide are now under development and testing by members of the design team.

The team expects to go-live with a public beta web site in October to obtain further feedback from the campus community and enable further refinement before go-live.

Finally, in support of creating a more mobile-friendly campus (and in parallel with the Web Refresh project) the Division of Technology & Communication is currently researching solutions to support creation and deployment of a campus native mobile app for iPhone and Android platforms. Visit the CI Mobile Strategy web site for further details.