Empowering a Unified Digital Presence: How a Campus-wide Collaboration is Elevating Websites at Illinois

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The Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) has been working collaboratively as a cross-campus collaboration for years to facilitate and promote consistent website design templates for the Illinois Campus and make it easy for all units on campus to have a strong baseline for branded websites. Hear how this community of practice was entrusted with managing […]

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June 12, 2025 from 9:00 am to 9:45 am

The Website Management Center of Expertise and The Web Implementations Guidelines Group, who are we and what can we do for you?

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The Website Management Center of Expertise (WCoE) and The Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) have been working collaboratively for the last few months to facilitate and promote consistent website design templates for the Illinois Campus. Hear how this collaboration came about, how it has been successful, what lessons you can learn from our experience, what’s […]

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November 12, 2024 from 10:00 am to 10:45 am

Campus website theme updates

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At the last IT Pro Forum, you heard about the new campus website brand standards. Now hear about the new developments that have happened in the last 6 months. Many new features, improved designs, and more WordPress theme options and a new Drupal theme and framework. Also learn about the webtheme.illinois.edu website where you can […]

Cross-Unit Collaborations — When things just have to get done

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There are many great committees and groups on campus that have been formed with formal charters and pre-negotiated deliverables. However, sometimes you need to bring people together quickly to work on a problem and create a solution. The Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) is a group that was formed completely organically and has now helped […]

Delivering Consistent Web Design Templates Across Multiple Platforms

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There are a large variety of web publishing situations across campus today. With the push from the Chancellor last year to adopt the new branding standards, many units are searching for a way to bring their websites into compliance. The WIGG efforts have created branded themes for WordPress and Drupal and made those available to […]

Women in Technology

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Open Discussion about Women in Technology Group (WIT) which provides a forum for discussion of issues facing women in IT in general and on campus, networking and coaching, and coordination of outreach efforts to girls considering IT as a career.