I like this self-deprecating advert from Microsoft about Internet Explorer 9. Only today I was thinking how refreshing it is that I now don’t have to worry too much about testing webpages in Internet Explorer 9.…
This summer the Web team are planning to upgrade the University’s enterprise Web content management system to TerminalFour Site Manager 7.0. One of the main features of Site Manager 7.0 is a completely redesigned…
We are currently working on a project that will provide a subtle but significant improvement in the navigation of the internal University websites (for current staff, students and postgraduates). What we have just now…
One of the most frequent problems with content on the University website is broken links. Frustratingly, many of these broken links are perfectly avoidable. With a bit of extra care, content owners can take one simple…
A few weeks ago a letter was passed on to the Web team which congratulated us on the University website. If the truth be known, it wasn’t the letter itself that was passed to us, it was a PDF file of a scan of that…
Yesterday the extended Web team—that is the Web team, a couple of Web application software developers and someone from the IT Services systems team—met for four-and-a-half hours in the Hebdomadar’s Room with our boss…
At the start of the current academic session (2010-2011) the University introduced Moodle as its preferred learning management system (LMS), also called a ‘virtual learning environment’ (VLE) and began the move away…
A lot of my job involves looking at websites and making suggestions on how better to structure them. There is a bigger restructure project happening at the moment, though, which has an impact on the Web team. The…
Look what has happened on the whiteboard at Web team HQ! It started as an innocent enough looking wireframe showing a tabbed main content area and then … well, it turned into a monster. Ain’t that true of a number of…
Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 on Tuesday—it has already been downloaded 16,041,437 times; that’s about 92 downloads a second!— and there is a lot to commend it for: a clean look, that’s not too far away from both Google…