Our school’s official website will be making a change from “matrix.scranton.edu” to the more canonical “www.scranton.edu”. This will not have any affect on your web browsing experience, but it may affect some pages created in the Content Management System (CMS). Any links currently pointing to a “matrix.scranton.edu/” site will be automatically redirected to the corresponding “www.scranton.edu/” site, but IR would like to encourage you update your websites (and republish) to reflect this change. The full email from IR is below, including dates that the change will take place.
Please note: please refrain from publishing websites during the upgrade window: 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2012 until 8:30 a.m. on Friday, February 16
On Thursday, February 16, 2012, the University’s public web server, known as matrix.scranton.edu will be replaced by a new server, which will be known as www.scranton.edu. No interruption in service for the University’s web site is expected as a result of this action.
As a CMS user, please take note of the following minor changes that will occur on the afternoon of Wednesday, February 15, 2012. They will affect how you navigate within the CMS and link to University pages:
1. After you log in to the CMS, the dropdown menu option, “matrix.scranton.edu”, will be renamed to “www.scranton.edu”. This is merely a name change, all website data will be retained.
2. If you created links to other pages in the CMS via the “Internal Link” option, the CMS will automatically update these links to the correct “www” address.
3. If you linked to other pages in the CMS via the “External Link” option, where you entered the full website address (i.e. matrix.scranton.edu/admissions/index.shtml), we encourage you to change these links to “www” shortly after the move on February 16, 2012. You will then need to republish your pages.
Any existing links containing “matrix” will still work, but we want to eliminate “matrix” from our web vocabulary.
4. Finally, please avoid publishing from 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2012 until 8:30 a.m. on Friday, February 16, 2012.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email webmaster@scranton.edu. Please forward as necessary.
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