Streamlining the migration of courses
We have just completed the migration of over 300 undergraduate and postgraduate courses from TerminalFour (T4) version 7 to version 8. A blog post describes how we automated parts of this migration, but we were still left with a lot …
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Content
Prospective student information: usability testing and results
As part of the external website project we are retiring the Study at St Andrews section of the website and moving its content into either Subjects or Prospective students. Certain information will now live under Subjects, including: Study options Entry …
Friday 16 June 2017 | Usability
Where and when should you use a hero banner?
Hero banners are great. They are perfect for conveying the mission statement of your website through strong visuals and a large tagline. They’re almost like billboards in the digital era, but they are one step better as they also have …
Wednesday 14 June 2017 | Design
New team member
Hello, it is nice to meet you! My name is John and I am the newest member of the digital communication team. I joined the team on Monday 5 June as the new social media and web content editor. I …
Monday 12 June 2017 | Team
2018 undergraduate digital prospectus
On 29 May 2017, the digital communications team sent out content for the 2018 undergraduate course webpages to all Schools for review. Schools have until 7 July 2017 to return any amendments before the pages go live. We sent the …
Wednesday 7 June 2017 | Content
New ‘Subjects’ launch
The digital communications team has been working on migrating content from the current version of our content management system, T4v7, to the latest version, T4v8. (Find out more about our migration to T4v8 project.)
Monday 5 June 2017 | External website redevelopments
Migrating content from TerminalFour (T4) version 7 to version 8
We use TerminalFour Site Manager (T4) as our content management system to manage content on the main University website. We are currently migrating content for external facing audiences from version 7 (v7) to the newer version 8 of the software …
Thursday 1 June 2017 | Guides
Identifying your website’s Top Tasks
At the beginning of the month I attended a seminar hosted by User Experience expert, author, and speaker Gerry McGovern on measuring the customer experience with Top Task management for websites. What is a Top Task? The key to successful …
Tuesday 30 May 2017 | Digital transformation
Google Analytics training: an overview
Recently, the digital communications team launched the digital visa, a programme of training sessions which enables staff to feel competent working on digital communications projects. One of the courses within the visa is Google Analytics: creating a dashboard – this …
Wednesday 24 May 2017 | Training
It’s time to make your site retina ready
Some members of the digital communications team have updated their hardware. Right now, I’m rocking around the internet using a 2K “built-in retina display” monitor and the best comparison I can make to how it feels is when you put …
Tuesday 16 May 2017 | Design
