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Content editing
Click-to-configure editing interfaces
Build well-designed and functioning websites with a few clicks of your mouse. Human-friendly interfaces for page editing and website configuration let you control your site using text and image inputs, checkboxes, selection lists, and radio buttons. No coding needed!
24 widgets to choose from
Create engaging user experiences using a wide range of configurable widgets. Including ones for text editing, page listings, banners, slideshows, image galleries, and webforms
Content workflow
Work on a new draft of a page while a published version exists. When you publish the draft, it'll automatically replace the previous published version. If you need to view an older version of the page, you can view the page's revision history
Create listings to signpost content to your visitors
Use listings to highlight themed content to your website's visitors. Create listings that filter content by page type, show a hand-picked page selection, show custom-made listing items, or pull in content from three different feed types
Create page templates
Set up templates for frequently created page types, like blog articles and profile pages. Templates make sure these pages have the same layout and widgets, and let your site's editors get on with making content with a consistent look and feel
Reusable content blocks
Create a block of one or more widgets that can be added to multiple places on your site. When you edit the original reusable block, the edits will be seen in all the other places the reusable block is used
Make pages by copying existing ones
Make an exact copy of a page. Once the copy is created, you can edit it without affecting the original page. Great for when you need to create a new page with a similar layout and content as an existing one
Share draft preview links with stakeholders
Generate a time-limited link for viewing a draft version of a page without logging in. The preview link stops working seven days after being created. Great for showing content to stakeholders before publishing
Advanced webforms
Use a range of webform components, conditional logic and bespoke email notifications to create user-friendly forms to manage bookings, newsletter sign ups, and more. All forms are protected by Google reCAPTCHA security by default
Export page content as XML and RSS feeds
Make your content available to other services by setting up an XML or RSS export feed
Tools to help you make accessible content
Tools to help you create content that meets AA and AAA accessibility standards — including colour contrast checker, automatically add Alt Text to images, and an accessibility checker in the text editor
Content management
Manage content by page type
No rigid folder structures here. Manage content flexibly using four main page types — article, event, person, basic page. Subcategorise your pages further into custom subtypes to easily sort your content and create listings based on common themes
Easy to manage site navigation
You can manage your site's navigation in two places: use the site-wide content management settings to change the order and structure of the menu links; use individual page settings to add and remove pages from the menu
Tag pages using custom taxonomies
Setup your own tag categories — or 'taxonomies' — and apply the terms you create to your pages. Use taxonomies to add an extra layer of filtering to your listings, and to give your website visitors a chance to filter listing results for topics they're interested in
Share pages with other Mosaic websites
Make your pages available for other Mosaic sites to use. When another site displays one of your pages, the page content will be rendered using that site's styling — but you keep control of content editing
User-friendly URLs automatically created for your pages — and add custom aliases
Human-friendly URL aliases are automatically created for your pages, based on their titles. Need to make a shorter page URL for that marketing email? You can also add as many custom URL aliases as you need for your pages
Restrict page visibility to Oxford SSO users or to University staff
To improve the user experience for non-University users, you can restrict viewing of a limited number of pages relevant only to University users — either all Oxford SSO users or just University staff
Create profile pages for University members and let them do the editing
Use the Person page type and page templates to generate profile pages for people in you unit. Add an SSO ID to each page, and let that person add their own content to it
Integrations with University systems
Display Symplectic publications data
Use the Publications listing widget to automatically display an SSO user's publications directly from Symplectic Elements. You can also display a group of SSO users' publications in one listing
Display job vacancies directly from CoreHR
Use the Vacancy listing widget to show current job adverts directly from the University's vacancies system
Display event information from OxTalks
Use dedicated item styles to display OxTalks event information in listing widgets
Site styling options
Choose from 8 pre-made colour settings...
Need to get a site setup quickly? Pick one of the eight pre-made settings and all your interface elements will be consistently styled for you
...or use granular colour and font management options
Have specific branding requirements? Use more than 200 colour and font settings to tailor your site's design
Tailor your site's theme
Apply your branding using site-wide theming options, including desktop and mobile header styles, custom logos, footer layout and site navigation styles
22 item styles for listing widgets
Select from 22 item styles to display your listing widget content in the Grid, List, Slideshow, Banner and Carousel widgets
Sites look great on all devices
Fully-responsive, Bootstrap-based theme means your website looks great whether your visitors are using a desktop or a mobile device
Website administration
User management integrated with Oxford SSO
Adding people to your website editing team is as easy as abcd1234 — just enter their Oxford SSO IDs
4 levels of user permissions
Manage what your website team can do using 4 levels of user permissions, from content contributor to the full range of admin rights
All sites get a platform web address by default
Every site gets created with its own web address — in the format mysite.web.ox.ac.uk. You choose what's in the mysite part and once created, your can edit and publish on that address
Add a custom web address to your site
Want a custom web address or already have one? You can add up to 2 custom domains to your site and use one of them as the main public facing address
Let your visitors search across content on multiple Mosaic sites
Set up search collections that not only search content on your site but also find relevant content on other Mosaic sites. Useful when your unit is operating several Mosaic sites and you want your visitors to find the right content regardless of which site they visit first
Create editor accounts for non-Oxford SSO users
Need to add a person who doen't have an Oxford SSO ID to your website team? You can create non-SSO user accounts for your site
Add analytics tracking
If you have Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager accounts, you can easily add your GA and GTM tracking IDs to your site and track traffic
Create redirect rules to manage your content migration
Add rules to redirect specific URL aliases to external URLs. Useful when your website migration to Mosaic includes links to content that has moved elsewhere
Customise your 'page not found' message
Customise what your visitors see when they hit the 'page not found' message — it could be a site map, links to commonly requested pages, or a Rickroll
Own your site's launch process
Your site is hidden from search engines by default. Once you're finished building and ready to launch, make it visible to search engine indexing
Secure & cost-effective hosting
Hosted in the Acquia Cloud
Mosaic is hosted in Acquia's Cloud platform. We get 24/7 support from the Drupal-hosting specialists to help make sure your website is available all the time. The servers that host Mosaic are located in the EU, making our data processing GDPR compliant
All sites are delivered over HTTPS
Whether creating content or browsing a site, all pages on Mosaic are delivered over HTTPS to make sure your and your visitors' information is secure
4 charging tiers — starting at free — and no extra costs
Four charging tiers based on: number of pages, amount of disk space used, page requests per quarter — that's it, no extra costs. Sites are free to setup and stay free in the first charging tier
Regular patform backups
All Mosaic sites are backed up regularly on the Acquia Cloud
Newly-developed features are rolled out to everyone
When new features are built for Mosaic, they are rolled out to every site on the platform — at no extra charge to you
In-house support
Wealth of online resources to get started
Documentation, how-to guides, a Pattern Book of widget examples, training videos and more — all ready to use when you need them
Dedicated user support
Report issues, request changes for your site, and ask questions directly to the Mosaic team using our contact form. If you're currently working on a Mosaic site and have content build questions, you can speak to a member of the team in a consultation session
In-house development and maintenance
Mosaic is built and maintained by the Oxford Mosaic Web Platform team within the University's IT Services department. Mosaic is dedicated to being a web publishing solution that works for all members of the University
Built and tested to meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards
Accessibility testing is built into the Mosaic team's development process. We make sure all code related accessibility issues are prioritised and fixed as soon as possible
