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Geological Sciences Department Name Change
The Geological Sciences department in the College of Arts and Sciences has changed its name to Earth and Environmental Geosciences. The URL for the department is still the same. UCM web team members have updated site-wide references to the old department name. For any future content on your sites, be sure to use the department’s new name.
Check Statistics and Brag Points on your Site
Please review the two tabs for Fast Facts and Fact Cards on the spreadsheet and make sure all information on your pages is current and accurate. Even if your site is not listed in this spreadsheet, summer is generally a good time to do a quick review of your site pages to make sure all content is current.
Permalink Updates
It recently came to our attention that Drupal was including the word “and” in the URL of newly created pages. We have fixed the system so that "and" will now be automatically removed. [Other small words like "the" and "to" are already being removed. If you notice a webpage has the word “and” within the URL, please update the permalink to change it.
Example: "ohio.edu/shrimp-and-grits" should be changed to "ohio.edu/shrimp-grits"
Avoid UTM Tracking on Internal Drupal Links
We discovered instances where web editors copied and pasted URLs with UTM parameters (likely copy-pasted from emails) into ohio.edu (Drupal) pages linking to other ohio.edu Drupal pages. This practice is problematic as it causes tracking issues for our website analytics. We're asking editors to review and update instances of this on your sites.
Instructions:
- Find pages on the site you manage on this spreadsheet:(drupal-pages-utm-parameters-need-fixed_052524.xlsx) and the URL that needs updated.
- Remove everything in the URL after "?".
- Save the page and highlight the spreadsheet row green to confirm it's been fixed.
Your final URL should look like [https://ohio.edu/graduate], with no "?utm_campaign=homecoming" characters.
For questions about UTM parameters and tracking implications, please contact Zoe Graham:
grahamz@ohio.edu.
