New Accommodation website
Another major website I worked on over the summer was the new Accommodation website, which went live in October. I think it is quite a distinctive and bright looking website. This is largely due to the excellent use of…
Another major website I worked on over the summer was the new Accommodation website, which went live in October. I think it is quite a distinctive and bright looking website. This is largely due to the excellent use of…
I say “new”, but the Museums and Collections website actually launched a good few months ago now. But I have been so busy over the summer that I haven’t got round to writing about it, until now. I recall that the very…
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…
Last week I wrote about Placekitten, a service that automatically generates pictures of kittens as placeholder images in web designs. I decided to put the service through its paces by testing it on the University…
Today, Microsoft launched a big push aimed at “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6”. IE6 Countdown aims to educate people about why they need to upgrade their browsers. The target is for IE6 to account for less…
We have all been there. You are working on a test webpage, and you need to create a placeholder image to test out how it would look. What can you do? You could always go on the hunt for a suitable stock image. But this…
Did you know that all University webpages print out in a print-friendly format automatically? From time to time we are asked if we can add ‘print-friendly’ pages to the website. But this functionality has always been…
If you are using TerminalFour Site Manager to update content on the University website, it is worth taking a short amount of time to check that you are using the most up-to-date HTML editor. In late 2009, Site Manager…
We have been contacted a couple of times recently by content maintainers who were concerned that some users of the website were unable to open PDF files. Our users have particularly been having problems opening some…