As a language model trained on a vast amount of text data, Generative AI models, like ChatGPT, can provide high-quality and relevant content suggestions for your website. It can assist in creating engaging article posts, program descriptions, and marketing copy, as well as improve the overall readability and coherence of your website's content. With its natural language processing capabilities, ChatGPT can also help in generating content for social media, to help further promote and drive traffic to the website.

Below are the image sizes for use across the site.

All images should be saved at 72 dpi.

Pages

Department Homepage Banner
1920 x 1080px

Department Subpage Banner
1920 x 700px

Articles

Article Banner
1920 x 700 for shorter header and 1920 x 1080px for full screen

Headshot (show on profile pages and can be used in list views)
200 x 300

How to Add or Update your Biography

To add or update a biography for your directory profile,

1. Go to https://apps.uis.edu/directory/
2. Search your name
3. Scroll to the bottom (if needed) and click edit
4. Click the ‘Update biography, area of specialization, or area of expertise’ link.

There are options to include:

How to add a new mailing list and subscription form to website – Developer Guide

1. Create a new mailing list – can import a new list
2. Add a ‘Mailing list’ block, select mailing list created, change title, and add path for page(s).
3. Setup permissions for mailing list.
   1. <mailing list name> Access any subscriptions
   2. <mailing list name> Edit any subscriptions
   3. <mailing list name> Delete any subscriptions
   4. Subscribe to <mailing list name>
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Units can now check their site for broken links using the new Broken Links Report page! Search for broken site links for your website by filtering the broken link results by unit.

You can see the page title to where the broken link was found, the link itself, and the link to edit the page, making it easy to find and update the links.

The Fail Count column shows the number of times the link has failed. Keep in mind that the link checker sometimes does give false positives.

Website editors can gain access to become publishers after they meet the have successfully completed the following criteria:

• At least 20 website updates to the 'Needs Review' queue without error.
• Passes the Mandatory Bi-Annual Publisher Training Quiz with at least 90% or higher.

After you take the quiz we will reach out to schedule publisher training with the Web & Digital Strategy (WDS) team.

The Office of Web Services has developed an AI at UIS page to help promote and highlight the AI initiatives, efforts, and achievements at UIS. The page highlights AI Research, Courses with AI integrated into their curriculum, links to resources, and AI related news and events.

If you know of a degree, course, or other AI initiative that should be added to the page, please email jbaum02s@uis.edu for inclusion.

Axe Devtools Extension

To start using Axe monitoring to scan webpages prior to publishing, you can download the extension for your preferred browser, 

Your content looks like it is ready to be published and you're ready to save your content as "Needs Review," but wait! You need to check your content against the brand new accessibility checker first. Learn how to use the new accessibility checker now.