Digital communications team update – August 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for August 2020.
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Digital communications team update – July 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for July 2020.
Writing a video description for YouTube
Video descriptions can be as valuable as a video title. A video description helps viewers, and YouTube’s algorithm, understand the content of a video.
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,…
Remote staff training – lessons from Covid-19
When lockdown hit the UK in March 2020, I had to quickly transform the Digital Visa staff training programme to work remotely. Rather than cancel all sessions, I wanted to make sure we continued to offer training for…
Optimising images for the web
When you open any web page, your device downloads all assets that populate that page. Images on web pages are also downloaded and cached to your browser’s memory. Depending on the speed of your download connection,…
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…
Adapting your social media use
We are all currently experiencing the impact coronavirus is having on our lives. Social distancing is a phrase many of us have likely never used before. Yet it now falls into our daily conversations. More than ever…