BarCamp on Sublime Text 3
In order to try to improve our skills and share knowledge within the team we are currently trialling weekly, informal ‘BarCamps‘ within the team. Today we had our second, focusing on the code editor Sublime Text 3,…
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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.
Fife and Tayside T4 group
This morning Steve Evans (University web manager) and I travelled to deepest, darkest Dundee for the first meeting of what is hoped will be a regular meeting of TerminalFour Site Manager administrators and users from…
What motivates us?
I find this a really inspiring video. I wonder how this might influence us as a web team.
Grid—a simple guide to responsive web design
It feels like the web is evolving at a frightening rate these days, and while we’re being encouraged to design for mobile first even the technical specifications (particularly HTML5, and CSS3) haven’t settled down yet…
New framework for responsive HTML emails
Ink is a fairly new framework from Zurb, who brought us the Foundation CSS framework, for creating responsive HTML emails. It’s been a while since I’ve been asked to help put together an HTML email but as news of this…
Ten guidelines for university websites from the Nielsen Norman Group
Last week (Sunday 19 January) the Nielsen Norman Group published an incredibly helpful article offering ten design guidelines for university websites: University Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines. Their summary:…
Drop the assumptions, re-frame the question
More than two years ago, on 7 November 2011, I created a new card on our Trello board called “Fix memos on internal homepages”. It then sat on the board for the next 24 months, and was not touched, apart from to…
T44U 2013 conference in Dublin
Introduction On Wednesday 20 November 2013 I flew from Edinburgh to Dublin for TerminalFour’s (T4) sixth annual global user conference, T44U. Or as I preferred to call it: T44Me. While there were more attendees this…
jQuery cycle plugin
Where would we be without jQuery, the JavaScript library that speeds up development no end? I’ve recently been using the Bootstrap 2.3.2 CSS framework within our content management system, TerminalFour Site Manager and…
Trello now has a calendar view
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Trello here. A fabulous feature they added in August—which may make the tool more useful to some people—is the addition of a calendar view. For as long as I can remember, Trello…