A look at web components
Although web components have been around for several years in the web development world, it hasn’t been something that I’ve heard mentioned a lot. On the surface, web components look like an easy way to create and…
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Three invisible design decisions that are more important than you think
Good design is invisible, if it functions well and serves it’s purpose then the world can live in harmony.
Making charts accessible for the web
Charts and graphs are a great way to present complex information in a visual format that can make them easier to understand, but care must be taken to keep this information accessible for everyone.
Digital communications team update – July 2021
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for July 2021.
Degree conferral ceremonies summer 2021 analytics data
Between Monday 28 June 2021 and Friday 2 July 2021, nine degree conferral ceremony videos were premiered on the University website. Similar to last year, we have been working in an extraordinary operating environment…
Choosing the correct chart
Data visualisation can be expressed in different forms. Charts are a common way of expressing data, as they depict different data varieties and allow data comparison.
PHP 8.0 – what’s new
PHP is used on the University website to provide dynamic web content, sometimes to bring content from an external database or from an external feed such as news or events. Each release of PHP is fully supported for two…
A look at AVIF
AVIF is a modern, but relatively unknown, image format and its presence is attracting a lot of attention in the web development and design world. But what is AVIF? How does it compare to other image formats, and what…
Twitter Spaces
Earlier this month, Spaces was launched on Twitter after a successful beta version trial. Spaces is their latest feature which makes use of social audio, the growing medium between text and video.
New ideas for course finder
I recently came across a case study from GatherContent about the University of North Dakota’s new interactive programme finder. Their programme finder makes clever use of search functionality to offer a filtering…