News

Catch up with the latest University Website Project, website, CMS and cPanel news.
New CMS Homepage
13 May 2020

A new homepage for the University of Sheffield

Today (13 May 2020) is an important milestone in the life of the University Website Project as we turn on our updated sheffield.ac.uk homepage in the New CMS.

The School of English website is displayed on a computer screen.
16 April 2020

Halfway and counting

The migration of externally-facing websites to the University's New Content Management System - due to be completed in December 2020 - is more than halfway through, and ahead of schedule with 55% of websites now moved.
A screengrab of Dr Esther Karunakaran's staff profile on the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering's website.
A Staff profile on the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering's website.
27 February 2020

Finding the identity of Staff profiles

Our newest set of Content types are some of the most ambitious - and important - bits of development we've undertaken so far on the University Website Project. Here we tell the story behind their design.
An illustration of two websites being analysed by the users. There is a question mark. It is implied that the users are being asked to choose if they prefer design option A or B.
22 November 2019

The evolution of our new CMS

How our new CMS is growing and evolving to meet the needs of both visitors and editors.
Screenshots of the 'Our guarantee' page before and after.

Accommodation: moving in to the new CMS

October marked another milestone for the University Website Project (UWP) as we wrapped up the second group of websites in our plan with Accommodation going live.

1 November 2019
Department of Civil Engineering homepage

More sites go live

The latest batch of new websites has gone live as the University Website Project continues in full swing. Here are the most recent sites to be successfully migrated across to the New CMS.

10 September 2019
the web support homepage

New CMS development updates

This last month has seen many improvements being made to our CMS. Here’s what’s new.

9 September 2019
Training for the new content management system taking place.

Three things we've learned while delivering new CMS training

A quick update on how things are going with the training for our new content management system (CMS) and the improvements we’ve made since onboarding the first group of editors.

15 July 2019
How the new Politics homepage looks like

Two more departments go live - and other project news

An update about the Department of Politics and the School of Architecture being the latest sites to be migrated to our new content management system, and a few more exciting things happening with the UWP.

17 June 2019
A screenshot of the new web support homepage (new CMS)

Web support site update

Our web support site has had a makeover. Take a tour to see what's changed.

10 June 2019
CBE homepage

Our first department website goes live

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is the first academic department website to be migrated to our new content management system.

4 April 2019
Firth Court - The University of Sheffield

University Website Project drop in - Thursday 31 January

You’re invited to a monthly drop-in session where any aspect of the project can be discussed.

28 January 2019
Firth Court - The University of Sheffield

University Website Project soft launch - Thursday 5 July

The first pages of the new website will go live next week - do let us know your feedback.

29 June 2018
A new approach to navigation

A new approach to navigation (part two)

We're testing a form of horizontal navigation to be used on individual sub sections of the new website.

4 June 2018