We’ve previously written about common content mistakes made on the web, but we thought it would be a good idea to provide an updated list. Below is a list of common mistakes our team sees coordinators make on a regular…
Marketese is a writing style which favours promotional, self-congratulatory and boastful language over technical and objective wording. At the University of St Andrews, we aim to avoid using marketese on the web at all…
Sara Fay completed a four-week internship with the digital communications team. You can read about her experience in her own words below.
This blog post will be referencing statements from Rob Borley‘s talk at IWMW 2012 on the requirement for mobile apps and reflecting upon them with trends from 2016. It’s a known fact that as of last year, handheld…
As I write this, last week Twitter pulled the plug on TweetDeck for Windows, forcing PC users into their browsers to use the web version instead. For at least the last six years I’ve been a vocal advocate…
The University is looking for a web developer to join the web team. Job reference: Web Developer SB1005R1 Salary £25,013 – £29,837 per annum (grade 5) Required skills: PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, CSS, SQL, Ajax Fixed…
It feels like the web is evolving at a frightening rate these days, and while we’re being encouraged to design for mobile first even the technical specifications (particularly HTML5, and CSS3) haven’t settled down yet…
Introduction On Wednesday 20 November 2013 I flew from Edinburgh to Dublin for TerminalFour’s (T4) sixth annual global user conference, T44U. Or as I preferred to call it: T44Me. While there were more attendees this…
The University is looking for an experienced web developer to join the web team. Grade: 5 Salary: £24, 766 — £29,541 per year Fixed term: 3 years Start: as soon as possible Closing date for applications: Friday 19 July…
At the meeting of the Scottish Web Folk, on Thursday 31 May held at the University of Edinburgh, I gave the above presentation about Trello from Fog Creek Software. Trello is, according to its own help text, a…