Academic Schools project
The Academic Schools project has lasted nearly two years. With the launch of the School of Biology on 4 June 2020 it brought to completion the redesign of 24 different websites. The project has been completed on time,…
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Video descriptions can be as valuable as a video title. A video description helps viewers, and YouTube’s algorithm, understand the content…
Wednesday 1 July 2020
When lockdown hit the UK in March 2020, I had to quickly transform the Digital Visa staff training programme to work remotely. Rather than…
Thursday 14 May 2020
When you open any web page, your device downloads all assets that populate that page. Images on web pages are also downloaded and cached…
Monday 11 May 2020
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How to customise your background in Microsoft Teams video calls
Microsoft Teams will soon be rolling out a new feature that allows users to add custom backgrounds to their video calls. While they currently support their own supply of pre-populated background images, there isn’t an…
Keyboard accessibility improvements to the University website
Keyboard accessibility is one of the most important aspects of web accessibility. The latest release of the digital pattern library (DPL) includes improved support for users who rely on a keyboard to browse our web…
Website performance and the hidden environmental impact of the internet
It could be easy to assume, given its intangible nature, that the internet’s environmental impact would be trivial. Unfortunately, the ever-growing volumes of traffic and the data centres and servers required to handle…