Isolation
"People can feel isolated, starved of inspiration, even when working alongside others, if the organization’s structure and environment make it hard to keep ideas flowing."—Andy Clarke
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Gareth is the web architect within the University of St Andrews digital communications team. A graduate of St Andrews (BD Hons, 1993), Gareth joined the web team in 2006 and worked mainly on information architecture and front-end development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). He currently spends most of his time doing DSDM agile project management and business analysis.
St Andrews ranked #1 in the world for student satisfaction in IT support
i-graduate (often referred to simply as iGrad) is the global benchmark for student experience, implemented by over 1,400 of the world’s best universities, with feedback from over 1.7 million students. The i-graduate…
Mental health in web development
Back in November (21–22) 2013 I travelled to Dublin to TerminalFour‘s annual global user conference t44u at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. TerminalFour develop the web content management system that we use here…
Moving the University website to HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS
When we redesigned the University website in 2008 we adopted the Blueprint CSS framework which greatly cut down our CSS development time. It offered us a solid, cross-browser compatible foundation on which to build our…
Job vacancy: web developer
The University is looking for a web developer to join the web team. Job reference: Web Developer SB1005R1 Salary £25,013 – £29,837 per annum (grade 5) Required skills: PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, CSS, SQL, Ajax Fixed…
Survey of university websites
As part of our work around developing a solid strategy for the University website for next few years, over the last couple of days we’ve been doing a little ‘competitor analysis’ and have visited over 200 university…
On your own in the office over the spring break?
The students have now gone on their spring vacation. Soon colleagues too will be slipping away for a break, leaving you alone in the office. If—like me—that’s going to leave you on your own at your web team HQ to look…
Coloured lists in Trello
As you probably know, we’re big fans of Trello here in the web team. We have a number of project boards, overseen by one master, everything-we’re-doing™ board called @Web team. It currently has 24 columns (or lists)…
Leet service desk calls
This morning I logged into UniDesk, our IT Service Desk incident management system, and noticed that the calls assigned to me next to the calls assigned to the whole web team read: 1337. That’s so 1337! (Using…
Zeal and Dash—Offline documentation browsers
Yesterday I came across a really useful application for web development which has already sped up my workflow when needing to look for documentation: Zeal. Zeal is available for Linux and Windows only, because it’s…