Re: St Mark’s research fellows - The Website Space Portal

Thank you Oliver for the response.

It can be a frustrating when you know what you want to achieve, scour the WordPress menus for hours, discover part of the solution, and then finally realise the change you need to make is beyond the options available to you. So hopefully as you say these options will be more accessible later on in the process, it just makes it a bit hard to edit the site in the meantime.

For the pictures, I am going to switch to square pictures as much as possible now that you have clarified the best ratio option and see if it gives better results.

I will continue through the pages and make a list of changes beyond the options and any problems I am seeing (for example, on the home page, the Courses section is obscure on a mobile, as the top banner disappears by the time you reach it, and sizing wise it is a little too dominant and it’s not obvious the scroll underneath is the way to look through more. My instinct on a mobile was to try to swipe the courses. Also at this point, if you want to see all the courses, there is no hyperlink, or at least the title ‘Courses’ is basic text. The courses also do not show their dates in a dominant fashion on the home page, which is a key piece of data for our visitors. The ordering of courses, wherever they are displayed, should be date order, whereas generally they show as alphabetic order based on title.

I will continue the review/ edit.

Thank you

Steve Preston

Head of Media and Digital Production

St Mark’s Hospital Foundation & Academic Institute
St Mark’s Hospital, Central Middlesex, Acton Lane, London NW10 7NS
Also at Northwick Park, Watford Road, Harrow, Middx. HA1 3UJ
www.stmarksacademicinstitute.org.uk,www.stmarkshospitalfoundation.org.uk
St Mark’s Hospital Foundation, registered charity no 1140930

On 7 Aug 2024, at 15:56, Oliver Hill wrote:

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Hello Stephen,

I hope you are well?

Just thought I would jump in to clear a few things up.

Regarding the functionality of the website and what you can change yourself. Absolutely you can change things from the admin without needing to touch the code. During this stage build we work together to get the site 100% how you want it, a website of your size will of course need tweaking here and there.

Once the site is 95% built then we will do a full code review and make sure you can edit as much as possible, of course there are going to be some things that would require coding if you decided to add them or change them in the future, this is the same as a car engine, it is made to be accessible as possible but some things are impossible to do without being hard coded.

Regarding the PDF of screenshots and image sizes, most companies we work with when adding images to a website for in this case team images tend to have a set predefined image aspect ratio, so in this case a square so 1:1. This can then allow us to code it to always show a square image. What we do though/still doing is will always add a full back in CSS styling called object fit cover, what this does is if the image is uploaded that is not a square it will still fill the box.

These are all super simple changes that are easy to fix.

What I suggest is let’s book in an hour session or we are happy to come to you for half a day and let’s go through the site together in full and make the updates with you so it is how you want it, would that work for you?

I look forward to hearing from you.

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On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 12:56, PRESTON, Stephen (LONDON NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST) > wrote:
Hi there

I am worried as the website, as defined from the outset, needs to be front-end controls with no back coding behind a wall.

For example, if we wanted to have lots of subsets of workers on each department page, with their own set of rules so only they showed on specific pages, that could be multiple examples of templates, and possibly adding further templates as new subsets became apparent. We may not know those specifics until we get to that stage. So on the IBD Page, if we wanted to show the IBD staff only, that would be a bit like the research fellows problem.

I am also worried about the way the website auto crops images when a browser is resized on a computer, in my case an iMac with Safari. I have attached some examples. My preference would be for the pictures to resize but not crop, as it makes a mess of headshots. Also I am seeing headshots getting squashed on the biography pages, also attached.

Steve Preston

Head of Media and Digital Production

On 7 Aug 2024, at 12:32, Joseph Gregson > wrote:

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Hi Steve,

As the site is a Custom built site, Each Template needs to be coded specifically to look like the design, and call the specified ACF fields which are created in the Dashboard area, and/or other data points (in the case of ‘Template: Team’ it queries the Team Members). This means that when a new Template is created in the ACF area of the dashboard it needs to be assigned to a Page Template file which is created in the code files. Once this page Template file is added to the code base then it becomes available to assign to any page in the Edit Page dashboard.

Page templates can be reused for multiple pages, and when they are the ACF fields can be customised to display data, through changing the fields in the relevant Edit Page Dashboard. But in this Case the “Template: Team” calls a couple ACF fields, to customize the text above the list of team members, but the list of team members is querying team members assigned to the category ‘research-consultants’, using code. This is why I would need to go in and create a very similar Template to “Template: Team”, but edit the code to query the new category that you have set up ‘research-fellows’ and display those team members instead. There is an option to add an ACF field into the Template: Team which determines which category the list of team members that is queried and shown (i.e an acf field to add either ‘research-consultants’ or ‘research-fellows’, amd use that value as the Team Members query).

Customization regarding ACF templates is better done by us to stop the site breaking, and to save our time when changes are needed. If you want to make changes we can very easily do so, you just need to let us know what changes you would like to be made, ACF fields can be added very quickly in the backend immediately, but will need some time to add the code to the relevant file in the code base before they show up in the front end of the site.

I am happy to jump on a call and explain all this over zoom, and run through editing pages/reusing any templates, just let me know and we can set up a meeting.

In the meantime did you want me to add the customization to the Template: Team which would allow you to customize the category which is queried for the list of Team Members in this template (this will be good for future reuse/customization of this template).

Thanks,
Joe

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 11:20, PRESTON, Stephen (LONDON NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST) > wrote:
Joe, I’m looking at ACF / Field Groups / (Page 2)/ Template: Team, but I cannot see the reference to research-consultants.

I wanted to find this first so when I set up a Template: Research Fellows, I knew how to do it.

Have you got a manual for the TWS Template?

Steve Preston

Head of Media and Digital Production

On 7 Aug 2024, at 09:54, Joseph Gregson > wrote:

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Hi Steve,

I can see you have added research-fellows as a category, at the moment the research fellows page is using the same template as the Team page which is specifically querying the team Members with the category research-consultants. I can create a Template for the Research Fellows which will look the same but query the Team members with the new category, research-fellows, that you have set up.

To Update links within the navigation menu you can head to the ‘Theme Settings’ on the left in the Dashboard, click on ‘Header and Footer Settings’ and edit the list of the Links with the Text and the link itself.

Thanks, Joe

On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 19:50, PRESTON, Stephen (LONDON NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST) > wrote:
Dear team

In Research Fellows, I can see how the consultants ended up in the section under the blurb, by using a Category called ‘research-consultants’, so I created a new Category called ‘research-fellows’ as there wasn’t one, but couldn’t see a way to make the page look at that instead.

Could you let me know how to do that?

Also I could see how to remove or affect lozenges, such as Research Resources / About Us.

Steve Preston

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