We will move the SiteBuilder support forum at 10am on Thursday, 17th January 2013 to a new location on the IT Services website. We’re moving the forum to take advantage of the new style Forum page template in SiteBuilder, which has a cleaner, more modern interface and better performance. The move should take less than 10 minutes.

If you usually edit webpages using SiteBuilder, you won’t be able to edit between 10am and 10:30am on Thursday 2nd and Monday 6th February 2012.

People will still be able view your pages as normal during this time, but will not be able to submit forms, make resource bookings or leave comments.

This is to allow us to carry out some maintenance work. If it’s likely to cause you any problems, please email webteam@warwick.ac.uk and we’ll do what we can to help.

We are planning to perform maintenance on the Sitebuilder servers on Tuesday the 8th of November. As part of this activity, we will be making Sitebuilder/www2.warwick.ac.uk read-only for approximately 30 minutes, starting at 10:30am and finishing at 11am.

During this period, viewing pages on the website should work as normal. However, editing pages (including uploading files, editing properties, etc), submitting forms, or commenting on pages will not be possible.

If this will cause you any inconvenience, please contact webteam@warwick.ac.uk and we’ll do what we can to help.

We are planning to perform maintenance on the Sitebuilder servers on Thursday the 25th of August. As part of this activity, we will be making Sitebuilder/www2.warwick.ac.uk read-only for approximately 30 minutes, starting at 10:30am and finishing at 11am.

During this period, viewing pages on the website should work as normal. However, editing pages (including uploading files, editing properties, etc), submitting forms, or commenting on pages will not be possible.

If this will cause you any inconvenience, please contact webteam@warwick.ac.uk and we’ll do what we can to help.

We will be carrying out maintenance work CROCUS on Wednesday 15 December between 10:00 and 16:00. Although no impact on service is expected, services running on the server should be considered at risk. This includes UNIX filestores and various web re-directs.

Start.Warwick is a personalised homepage that allows you to bring together a range of different apps in one place; email, calendars, news, Facebook, Library search or the weather. Your home page is:

• Somewhere you can keep track of everything.  Read your email, check your calendar, or see the latest on Facebook alongside news from the BBC. 
• Somewhere to go for answers.  You can search for a lecture room, a library book or a person. 
• Somewhere that's yours.  You can add all sorts of content or remove it as you see fit, create tabs to store it, move it around and change how it looks.

To get started, go to http://start.warwick.ac.uk and sign in.  You’ll see a page personalised for you and some demo videos to watch if you'd like to.

The Web Team have been working with the Nursery to produce a new web site.  The aim of the redesign was to present a friendly but professional site, reflect the new building and make the information easier to find.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/nursery

The site also makes use of Google open fonts.

The ITS Web Team have been working with the French Department since February to produce a newly styled and better organised web site.  The brief was to update the design to look fresher, reflecting the younger audience that French want to draw to the site and have a strong French feel.  The major audience for the site being undergraduate students 50%, postgraduate students 25% and researchers 25%.

The website launched last week also makes use of sitebuilder 'personalisation tags' on the module pages to present some module information to external visitors, while signed in students get more information, thus making maintenance easier.

• New French web site
• Personalisation tags

There will be 2 brief outages to this server over the coming days (details below), which will enable us to create a ‘mirrored’ copy of the server. This means that for upgrades to Crocus, planned for the summer,  there will be no need for additional downtime.

 Friday 23 July at 10:00 to 10:15 – Home directories on Crocus will  appear to ‘hang’ for approximately 1-minute. Access to the server will not be lost.

 Monday 26 July at 10:00 – Any departmental web redirects will be unavailable for a short period, anyone attempting to access the page will receive a page saying maintenance work is on-going.

 If you have any questions or concerns regarding this work, please contact customerservice@warwick.ac.uk