Web Migration Update
To the Campus Community:
We are pleased to announce that the website migration should be completed sometime within the next two weeks. Thank you for your extended patience and understanding, and a special thank you to the many ISR, Communications, and Administrative Services staff who volunteered their time to help us complete this major project.
After such a longwait, it might seem like a let down when the website looks almost
exactly the same, but getting everything to look as it did was actually our goal. This was not a site redesign, but a change in the tool that we will use to manage the web content.
In spite of our best efforts, there will still be some missing pages, broken links, or forms
that won’t process. We ask that when the site goes live, you review your website and make note of any errors or missing material. We will work with you to correct any part of your site. One new enhancement you will notice to the site is a link on the left to “Comment on this
Page.” We encourage you to use this feature to communicate with the Web Development Team.
Please be aware that the URLs leading to each major web section will be the same (e.g. www.bucknell.edu/Admissions, or www.bucknell.edu/Geography, etc.). Because it will be far easier for visitors to follow such addresses, we encourage you to always use the URL to the top-level page
of your site (e.g. www.bucknell.edu/WeisCenter) in publicity or other communications.
However, the URLs for all subsequent pages (those not leading to the top page of a web section) will change. The good news is that these URLs will now
be short and manageable, taking the following form: www.bucknell.edu/x409.xml. (Upon request to webdevelopment@bucknell.edu, a “friendly URL” can be created in the form of: www.bucknell.edu/HonoraryDegrees.xml.) Changes to URLs will not impact web sites on the facstaff, students, orgs, or departments servers. Questions or concerns about changes in URLs should be sent to webdevelopment@bucknell.edu.
We will be
sending out information soon about how to access the training tutorial and how to log in to the Ingeniux training site.
Thank you again for your patience.
