Digital Communications team update – September 2024
Updates from the Digital Communications team at the University of St Andrews for September 2024.
786 articles found
The JavaScript build tools olympics – why Vite took home the gold
Web Developer, Teo Udrea, put five of the most popular JavaScript bundlers—Webpack, Rollup, Vite, esbuild, and Parcel – through their paces and found a clear winner.
T4’s new and upcoming features – a T4 conference roundup
In May 2024, members of the team attended the Terminalfour User Group and Learning Conference in Manchester for two days of demos, sessions and networking with other universities.
Design systems help reduce digital carbon emissions
Lewis Wake explores the relationship between digital sustainability and design systems, highlighting how they can work together to reduce carbon emissions and create more efficient digital products.
Unlocking website optimisation: a comprehensive tool comparison
We explore some of the top tools that can refine websites for peak performance to improve user experience, enhance SEO rankings, and ensure accessibility.
User-driven design: improving the website user journey
We ran user tests on our study and subjects webpages to understand how the structure and information could be improved.
Laying the foundations for the University of St Andrews Design System
How the insights from Andrew Couldwell’s Laying the Foundations have helped the University to create its own design system.
Revolutionising web content management: introducing ‘guides’
The Digital Communications Team has embarked on a project to transfer much of the University website content into ‘guides’ to address potential reputational risks and compliance issues that have arisen over time.
Developing custom blocks for WordPress
The team have been developing custom blocks to make creating and editing posts and pages easier.
Switch to Gutenberg block editor
In 2018, WordPress released the Gutenberg block editor, which provides predefined blocks to allow users to build custom page layouts and content without any coding knowledge. What is Gutenberg? WordPress released the…