Dear Surgery Web Editors
Information, Tips and How To's on Quickstart 2.0 Web Building
Login with /cas
https://surgery.arizona.edu/cas
Important Tips:
Always put/paste links into this site like this:
/about/recognize-reward
Not this way:
https://sugery.arizona/about/recognize-reward
Links pasted in with https://surgery.arizona.edu - are 'hard coded' and can be problematic down the road. But there are always exceptions to the rule. Like this page for example has hard coded links.
Making Pages + Menu Items at same time & Accessibile Main Menu Items
Video walkthrough
https://arizona.box.com/s/nw8kxkgvbnnftcimngl8gprebwsn5g81
Why don't main menu items go anywhere?
Site visitors on mobile or tablet have harder times navigating sub-menus when main menu items are linked to a page & have sub-menu. A main menu item w/out submenu links to itself as a page in its own right. (See Accessibility below)
Training Video - WalkThrough Tutorial
I've only recently found this training video and it is a great 1hr 20 min overview of the editing features in QS 2.0.
https://quickstart.arizona.edu/quickstart-2-training-videos
QS 2.0 Main Campus Resource
A great resource is the main campus web developers QS 2.0 site for Demo’s, How To’s, + Tutorials, Live Training Events
https://quickstart.arizona.edu/
Image Resources
Since Quickstart is visually driven, high quality photos are important. Here are some photo resources available to you:
- The Digital Asset Library (****New Feature - downloads images directly to your site)
- https://surgery.arizona.edu/admin/content/media
- Click 'Add Arizona Digital Assets' and sign in.
- More Info: https://quickstart.arizona.edu/create-content/images-videos-and-files/digital-asset-manager
- BioCom does have access to Getty images and can purchase images for you. Those are $25 per image.
- BioCom also have photographers that can take photos of your center and personnel for a fee. Then you can have stock art of your own to use as needed.
- You can also provide your own images. If those images have people in them, we’ll trust that you have permission to use them.
- Another option is using stock photos provided by brand management. I believe you can sign up for a Smug account and access even more photos.
Adobe Creative Cloud accounts information for faculty and staff. It’s free and you can get started here: https://adobe.arizona.edu/signup/adobe-creative-cloud. It takes about 24 hours to gain access. Then you’ll be able to access https://stock.adobe.com/.
Creating Accessible Content
One of the most important steps you can take when creating content for your site is to ensure that all pages are accessible to people with disabilities. Webaim.org provides a great introduction on web accessibility that you can review and reference when creating content along with the more advanced resources provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the W3C.
https://quickstart.arizona.edu/best-practices/accessibility-guidelines
Translation Services
Here is the resource that I know is available at the University. There may be more and I’m sure there are also vendors that can help with translation when needed.
National Center for Interpretation (NCI)
UA At Work Article about NCI’s services
The CEAL website used translation services provided by one of their partners associated with their project.
Let us know if we missed anything or if you have questions. We look forward to working with you and your team on this exciting new project!
BioCommunications Web Team - Scott & Joe
PS. - Please feel free to clone this page and/or add to it - questions, reference links, videos, suggestions, ideas, other layouts on other sites, etc.,