Web Design Webinars

Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Your RiSE EMS Based Website

Date: Wednesday, October 15th

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director, ATS

Moderator: Richard Banks, Sales Manager

Unlock the full potential of your iMIS RiSE EMS website! In this webinar, we’ll share practical tips, proven strategies, and insider tricks to help you optimize your site for better design, usability, and member engagement. Whether you’re new to RiSE or looking to refine your existing setup, you’ll walk away with actionable ideas you can implement right away.

Tuning Google's Core Web Vitals in iMIS RiSE

Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director

Moderator: Richard Banks, Sales Manager

Google's "Core Web Vitals" are metrics used to measure a website's performance, accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO) and usability. Join us to get a basic understanding of these metrics, along with valuable tips on how to fine-tune them within the iMIS RiSE/EMS platform. We will also demonstrate tools to assess your website scores and provide best practices to steer clear of common pitfalls which can bring down your overall scores.

Alternative to RiSE's Website Keyword Search

Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director

Moderator: Richard Banks, Sales Manager

We often hear frustration with the functionality of the out-of-the-box RiSE website keyword search that it does not meet user expectations. While there is some flexibility to adjust how the results look, there is no way to change how it functions, making replacement the only option.

Join us to review how to replace the RiSE out-of-the box keyword search with Google's programmable search. We will review the pro's and con's of the RiSE search and the Google option. We will also show a live demonstration so you can see it in action and decide if it might be a good option for your organization.

Vital Website Statistics and Tips on Optimization in RiSE

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director

Moderator: Richard Banks, Sales Manager

Join us as we discuss out-of-the-box support for accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO) in RiSE. We will also discuss Google Analytics page speed insights via the Lighthouse feature in Chrome web development tools. Keeping an eye on these vital statistics can give you valuable insight into the health of your website and where to focus on improving.

RiSE Microsites: Creating a Sandbox Site

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director

Moderator: Richard Banks, Sales Manager

Join us as we show, step-by-step, how to duplicate your existing RiSE site and create a "Sandbox" site that is a safe place, out of the public eye, to develop content, new ideas, and test functionality.

Getting the Most out of RISE

Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director

RiSE is evolving and getting better with every release. What wasn't possible a short while ago may now be.  Join us as we focus on creative control and opportunity with Theme Builder as you think about moving to the cloud. We will be reviewing how clients are leveraging Theme Builder to provide a seamless state-of-the-art member experience.

Advanced IQA Display with Responsive HTML and JavaScript

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00-1:30 PM MT)

Presenter: Aaron Milligan, iMIS Consultant

Are you looking to unlock the power of dynamic content? In this presentation, we will go through a couple of IQA examples that will change the way you display dynamic content. We'll show:

• tips to make responsive, full featured member directories, or product displays
• how to redirect your users to any page on your site based on any criteria in your database

RiSE-Based Templates Simplified with Theme Builder

Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Time: 3:00 PM ET (1:00-1:30 PM MT)

Presenter: Tip Ramsay, Creative Director

Building an iMIS website isn't as difficult as it used to be. Theme Builder allows you to create and manage RiSE-based website templates directly from the Staff Site. During this webinar we will review the iMIS out-of-the-box layouts and templates you can copy and modify as well as how to create your own custom a layouts from scratch. Join us to get a brief overview of this new and powerful tool.

Maximize Your Website Performance Using RiSE and Digital Analytics

Search Engine Optimization is defined as the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine. How can I achieve this by using RiSE? In this webinar, we will wade through the murky waters of how Google and other search engines crawl your website for keywords and information and what you can do to differentiate your RiSE website to make it stand out in search results.

RiSE Templates & Themes

Occasionally, iMIS users get asked to freshen up their website or create a new microsite for a specific purpose such as a special event registration form or student portal. Join us as we review the "out of the box" templates and themes and some innovative ways iMIS clients have leveraged them to maximize their web presence.

Evaluate and Prepare Your RiSE Site for the Responsive Templates in iMIS 20.2.X

Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Are you getting ready to update to the latest version of iMIS? Learn about the implications of upgrading to iMIS 20.2X and responsive templates. During this presentation we will review things to consider when making this leap such as:

• Out-of-the-box capability
• Opportunities to customize
• Assessing existing content and page layouts
• Best practices to help make the upgrade go smoothly

Bend RiSE to Your Will: Techniques to Add WOW Factor to Your iMIS-Driven Website

Want to make your website POP? On this webinar we will discuss ways to bend the RiSE CMS to our will and add WOW factor to your iMIS driven website. We will cover things like:

• how to add "sticky headers"
• how to add a third party jQuery widget
• syndicate content within your site using "tagged list" ipart
• relocate page content to the sidebar

So whether you are using an "out of the box" or custom design, join us to learn how to take control of RiSE with these advanced techniques.

Scraping Your Existing Web Design into RiSE

Are you looking to keep your existing web site design and CMS, but still have the ability to leverage the benefits of RiSE? Do you want to maintain your design and navigation in only one system? Do you want a seamless transition when navigating between RiSE and non-RiSE pages? Join us as we review how organizations can scrape their existing CMS web design (look & feel) into RiSE allowing for fully-functional navigation menus, search boxes and much more. We will also discuss strategies for determining which pages are best served in RiSE and which to keep in your existing CMS.

RiSE Responsive Website Design- What is Possible

This session will discuss the evolution of iMIS responsive design technology as it moves from YUI to Bootstrap and the changes you need to be aware of. This is important when planning and designing your website strategy. We will show examples of the new responsive, bootstrap design as well as how third-party CMS website design can be fully-integrated into RiSE.

Micro-Sites in iMIS RiSE: Rapid Development with Quick-Start Sites

The RiSE platform includes a selection of templates loaded with the features you need to quickly and conveniently launch your new website or micro-site. These templates can be easily tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization. In this session we will review real world examples of micro-sites in RiSE, as well as go over the steps necessary to create and customize your RiSE powered micro-site.

iMIS Website Redesign - The Do's and Don'ts

In this session we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of creating a compelling website while leveraging the value of your iMIS data. We will address some of the factors in deciding to integrate an external content management system with RiSE or using RiSE as your sole CMS (content management system). Integration with iMIS is the key. The discussion will provide information to help you make decisions about single sign on (SSO), personalization, ecommerce and more!

Web Design with iMIS: Using RiSE to Personalize Customers’ Web Experience

Tired of spending hours programming and editing your web presence with little benefit? This webinar provides an overview of the benefits of using the RiSE Engagement Platform.

We briefly touch on:

• Benefits of upgrading to iMIS 20.2 and ease of integration
• Quick Start Sites or custom?
• Page Builder
• Website Management

Web Design with iMIS: Using RiSE to Personalize Customer Web Experience

Tired of spending hours programming and editing your web presence with little benefit? This 45 minute webinar provides an overview of the benefits of using the RiSE Web Engagement Platform.