SiteMasonry Tutorial

  • November 12, 2024

    Digital Accessibility is now guaranteed for everyone, ensuring that all people have equal access to web content, mobile applications, and digital tools when visiting a site provided by state or local government.

    The April 2024 ADA updates reinforce the requirement that public entities, including George Mason University, provide fully accessible digital experiences by adhering to WCAG 2.1 AA standards by April 2026.

  • November 1, 2024

    Digital Accessibility is now guaranteed for everyone, ensuring that all people have equal access to web content, mobile applications, and digital tools - at least when visiting a site provided by state or local government. Both the SiteMasonry and Mason WordPress themes meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 standards. To maintain digital accessibility text, images, videos, audio, and documents must be formatted to meet WCAG 2.1 guidelines.

  • June 6, 2023

    Redirects point from one URL to another. This is important to ensure that, when a page is deleted in favor of a new one, old links will still function.

  • April 24, 2023

    As a website editor, one of your main responsibilities is to ensure that the content on your site is easy to navigate and provides a seamless user experience. One way to accomplish this is by implementing best practices for links on your web pages.

  • April 21, 2023

    Designing for mobile devices is crucial for website success, but testing on multiple devices can be daunting.

  • March 28, 2023

    You may have heard of the terms "user journeys" and "marketing funnels" before. Both are critical concepts to think about when developing and designing websites.

  • January 24, 2023

    Making a top-notch news story requires thinking from a multitude of angles. To stand out, it really needs to be an appealing and good experience for all readers, regardless of platform, format, and engagement style.

  • March 23, 2023

    You may be used to thinking of content from a top-down view. However, content is not just a tree you navigate to reach the fruit. Content forms webs, networks that are forged by in-page links and other such connections.

  • February 9, 2023

    When creating a profile, you can add in topic tags, much like you would to a news article. This can be utilized with the profile list block to create dynamic lists of staff members.

  • February 6, 2023

    Some older articles are using a content block setup no longer compatible with the current system. Here's how to fix those.