Oxford Mosaic

Ruth Mason & Matthew Castle

IT Services

Tuesday 28 March 2017

The University’s Web Publishing platform

• What is Oxford Mosaic?

Why is it needed?

• Highlight selection of

Preview sites

• Coming soon!

• New Features

• General Availability

OXFORD MOSAIC

A CENTRALLY SUPPORTED PLATFORMFOR YOUR WEB PRESENCE

The Oxford Mosaic Vision

Simple but flexible

• New websites are quick

and easy to provision and

build

• Flexible build options so

websites can be tailored as

needed

Secure and reliable

• Hosted in the Acquia Cloud

with 24x7 support

• Scalable software

architecture capable of

supporting 1000+ sites

• Quick response to critical

security issues

The Oxford Mosaic Vision

High quality but cost

effective

• Modern, high quality,

fully responsive

designs

• Websites are cost-

effective to build and

support

• Easy to use interface

minimises support and

training needs

Shared and continually

evolving

• Evolving platform

delivering ongoing

improvements

PREVIEW SITES SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

NEW FEATURES

More colour and font control

• Expanded set of colour themes

• New Advanced Colour Selection

with more fine grained control over

what colour is used where

• Significantly expanded set of font

themes

• New Advanced Font Selection with

fine grained control over which

fonts are used where

Consolidated Widget content selection

Currently

• Only slideshows support ‘custom’ content

• Only listings support ‘selected’ and ‘dynamic’

content

Future

• All widgets will support custom, selected and

dynamics content

Layout Styles and Item Styles

Currently

• Display Styles are configured per Widget limiting

configuration scalability and flexibility

Future

• Layout Styles will define how Items are arranged (Banner, slideshow, carousel, listing, grid, etc.)

• Item Styles will define how individual items are

displayed (Image with Block Text, Image with Text Overlay, Row, etc.).

Layout and Items styles can be selected to produce

many more combinations than possible currently

Custom Content Types

Currently

• Only a limited number of platform

wide content types are available

Future

• Sites will be able to create their

own custom content types

Redirection options

• Bulk Redirection rules will allow whole areas of a

site to be redirected to an external site(Intended to support existing microsite after migration)

• Page Redirection rules will allow individual pages

to be redirected to an external site(Intended to promotional URLs hosting externally to the platform)

• Applying these rules as part of the ‘404 file not

found’ process allows us to support ‘live

migrations’

GENERAL AVAILABILITY

The Oxford Mosaic Service

• Manual

• ‘How To’s

• Demos / workshops

• Training: w/c 10 July

• User Group/ Showcases

• Consultancy

• Service website

• Charging starts!

Support coming onstream

Now: 0.2 + 0.9

Launch: 0.5 + 1.0

July: 1.0 + 1.0

+ intern for Pilots

October: 1.0 + 1.5

QUESTIONS?

oxfordmosaic@it.ox.ac.uk

oxfordmosaic.web.ox.ac.uk