Web Strategy and Development Blog

Meet our newest team member: Valerie Cummings

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The web strategy and development office is pleased to welcome Valerie Cummings to our staff.

Valerie comes to us from Missouri State Outreach, where she spent over 25 years as the Director of Marketing and Promotions. In this role, Valerie designed and managed the Outreach website.

She also managed various projects and marketing campaigns, and developed front end coding skills that she’ll be using in her position as front end designer/developer.

We are very excited have Valerie join our team, and look forward to all the experience and talent that she will bring.

Web Press to be upgraded Friday, July 31

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Web Press, the university’s web content management system, will be upgraded to the latest software release this Friday.

Downtime for upgrade

Web Press will be down for system upgrade and maintenance Friday, July 31, 5 a.m.-1 p.m.

During the upgrade, editors cannot change their websites through Web Press. Any website updates scheduled to be published will still occur.

This downtime does not affect live websites — website visitors will still be able to access all published websites normally.

More information

Please contact the web help desk at 417-836-5271 or WebPress@MissouriState.edu if you have any questions.

Unused Web Press assets archived

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Unused assets in Web Press Asset Manager folders have been archived. If a needed file was archived contact the web help desk to have it restored.

By the numbers

  • Files in Web Press before archive: 35,750+
  • Storage consumed: more than 23GB
  • Unused files archived: 6,300+(17.8%)
  • Storage reclaimed: more than 4GB (18.2%)

Support

Please contact the web help desk at webpress@missouristate.edu or 417-836-5271 if you have any questions or would like assistance removing unneeded files from your Asset Manager folder.