Changing the location of a department/office on the website

Overview

As departments or Offices change or the Organization of them changes we some times need to adjust locations of them on the www.Harding.edu website. Our website CMS (Content Management System) helps in doing this but there are issues to watch out for so that everything gets to where it needs to be and pieces are not left to cause confusion down the road.
  1. Use the Navigation part of the website CMS to move a site from one location in the file structure to another. Make sure you have approval from Communications & Marketing to do this or have them help you.
  2. Remember that the Sites and Assets file structure mirror each other as much as possible so move the Assets side of things as well not just the Sites part.
  3. This is a good time to clean up any old assets or unused photos etc.
  4. Once you have completed moving a site and assets be sure and publish them out. This will happen with a nightly process if there are a lot and you can wait. If not publish out the Assets first so they are available for the site to find when it is published.
  5. Check links within the site that moved for any links that may be still pointing to the old location.
  6. If there are Hero Images (large photos) on the index or home page of the site being moved they may have links to other pages in the site that need to be updated as these are hard coded in and do not change.
  7. Now that everything is moved make sure to request that the old content be removed from the Web Server. Just moving the site and Assets in the CMS does not remove then from the previous location on the Web Server. That is a manual process done by AD&E (Application Development & Enhancement) in Harding's ITS department.
  8. Also use the Search on the Harding website to Look for any other pages that might have linked to the old content location via a hardcoded link. These will need to be updated to dynamic or changed to the new address.
  9. And finally, if any redirect is being used, shorter forms of the address, please inform AD&E of that as well so they can be updated.
    Example: www.harding.edu/Art goes to a much longer address for convenience. If that longer address changes so must the redirect.

 

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For help with changing the external website for Harding see Service www.harding.edu website.

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