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Duncan Stephen

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…

New Museums and Collections website

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…

Improving navigation on the University website

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…

Help us prevent broken links on the University website

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…

The University homepage, Placekitten style

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…

Creating quick and easy placeholder images

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…

Printing out webpages

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…