You can now add recurring dates and date ranges for Events! The Office of Web Services (OWS) added this functionality after receiving multiple requests for this feature.

The new 'When' field provides this capability, offering many configuration options, to reduce the need to duplicate event content on the site for repeating events.

This is a reminder that the deprecated WordPress site, stored on a backup server with ITS, will be decommissioned after December 22, 2022, and will no longer be accessible. 

If you have not already done so, please review your website content on the new site. If you find missing content from the old WordPress site, please email webservices@uis.edu to let us know immediately, so we can assist.

We appreciate your assistance reviewing and updating the website.

The Office of Web Service (OWS) has developed the functionality to create mailing lists, add a subscription sign-up form to your site, and send newsletters of your units most recent articles to your mailing list subscribers.

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists can be imported into the site or a new mailing list can be created to store subscribers.

Subscribe to Newsletter Form

Once a mailing list is created, a Mailing List Subscription block can be added to a page(s) to provide the option for new subscribers to sign up.

Since finalizing the migration of the uis.edu website from WordPress to Drupal, the website numbers have continued to improve. The numbers for August continue that trend, hitting a record high since site launch of over 1.1M pageviews. That is the highest number of pageviews we have received in August since 2013! The bounce rate is also still trending low at 1.93%.

In order to continue to improve the site performance, the Office of Web Services will perform tests and monitor the site to find other opportunities to optimize the site.

Orbit is a great resource to post your upcoming employee event! You can post your events to the Orbit homepage by selecting ‘Employee’ as the event type. By adding your events to the Orbit site website, we can make it a one-stop shop for all our UIS employees!

The website continues to show dramatic improvements in site performance post-migration. 

The pageviews continues to increase from June to July by an overall 5.05% for 838,650 pageviews. The average time on the page also went up to 1.64% The bounce rate is holding strong at 1.14%.

When comparing to our numbers July 2021, the pageviews increased by 79.49% (838,650 vs 467,233) and the bounce rate has decreased 98%.

The University of Illinois Springfield Office of Web Services launched a new website design on the Drupal content management system, and migrated from WordPress a year ago June 1st. The goal of the update was to modernize the look and feel of the site, improve sharing capability of content and content architecture, audit content for accessibility and usability issues, resolve security related issues, and the improve site performance. All of these factors improve site rank on search engines, and boost our web presence.