Updates to the University homepage
The digital communications team have made some significant improvements to the University of St Andrews homepage in line with user feedback gathered from the survey that was featured on the University homepage over the summer.
Wednesday 10 October 2018 | External website redevelopments
New social media training courses
The digital communications team are launching two new social media training courses as part of a refresh to the digital visa. ‘An introduction to social media for beginners’ and ‘Developing a social media strategy’ will replace the previously offered social …
Monday 8 October 2018 | Social Media
News and media centre website
The new website for news and media was launched on 7 June 2018. The new website provides a number of enhancements over the old site. For example: news can be categorised and tagged so it’s easier to find news can …
Tuesday 21 August 2018 | External website redevelopments
Our research survey says…
In order to inform the design of the new University of St Andrews research section, the digital communications team wanted to establish what the top tasks were for users of the current research website. We did this by using a …
Thursday 9 August 2018 | External website redevelopments
Internship with digital communications – Mhari Nimmo
Mhari Nimmo completed a four-week internship with the digital communications team. You can read about her experience in her own words below. Four weeks ago, a month seemed like an awfully long time – but as everyone knows, time likes …
Tuesday 7 August 2018 | Team
New global contact page
On Tuesday 31 July 2018, the digital communications team launched a new general contact page in our updated style to assure future accessibility for users. This post looks at some of the changes we’ve made.
Tuesday 31 July 2018 | External website redevelopments
IWMW 2018: Let’s improve our training
Recently, I attended the IWMW(Institutional Web Management Workshop) 2018, a UK-wide conference for anyone working in digital in higher education. Roughly 150 delegates attended from all over the UK and Ireland. Every university’s digital team provides training for their internal …
Friday 27 July 2018 | IWMW
Scheduling social media posts
Graduation week is always one of the busiest and most important times of the year for the digital communications team and our colleagues across Corporate Communications. Both the University website and the social media channels see a significant increase in …
Wednesday 25 July 2018 | Social Media
Internship with digital communications – Sara Fay
Sara Fay completed a four-week internship with the digital communications team. You can read about her experience in her own words below.
Monday 23 July 2018 | Team
Introducing the Admin A to Z project
The digital communications team have been aware for some time that, in order to finish our external website programme, we would need to tackle the Administration A to Z section of the website. We’ve now kicked off this project, which …
Thursday 19 July 2018 | External website redevelopments
