Review of CMS promotional pens
In keeping with my 2008 review of browser umbrellas, it seems about time I reviewed something else. So how about enterprise web content management system (CMS) promotional pens? As these pens were freebies from three…
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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.
A scalable and modular approach to writing CSS
Something that I’ve been keen to introduce to the web team for quite a while is a coding standard: a style guide, a consistent way for the whole team to write and format their code (whether HTML, CSS, JavaScript or…
Check accessibility with HTML_CodeSniffer from Squiz
Last month we had a visit from web content management system company Squiz. The primary reason for their visit was to demo their CMS Matrix but one of the really cool and practical things they left us with was simply…
Job vacancy: web developer
The University is looking for an experienced web developer to join the web team. Grade: 5 Salary: £24, 766 — £29,541 per year Fixed term: 3 years Start: as soon as possible Closing date for applications: Friday 19 July…
New website for the Writing Room at St Andrews
A few weeks ago the web team had a visit from Jonathan Falla, a local award-winning author and course leader for both the Creative Writing Summer School and now The Writing Room at St Andrews. It was about the latter…
New website for the Andrew Marvell Society
While the majority of our work in the web team involves developing and maintaining the main University website, using our enterprise content management system TERMINALFOUR Site Manager we do occasionally get asked to…
Website roadmap
A couple of weekends ago we upgraded our enterprise web content management system, TerminalFour Site Manager, from v.6.2 to v.7.2 This has been a major upgrade, and something that we’ve been gearing up to for the last…
Using Trello from within Microsoft Outlook 2010
If you’ve been following this blog for a while then you’ll know that almost a year ago we moved our Agile board to Trello. It has been a great success. Last year the University also moved both our email and meeting…
IWMW 2012 in Edinburgh
About a month ago (this blog post has taken ages to write) I travelled down to Edinburgh with my colleague Duncan for the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) which this year was being hosted by the…
Website help redesign
In many ways it has felt like that saying about the cobbler’s shoes: we spend so much time fixing other people’s websites that we don’t have the time to fix our own. But no longer! This week we finally redesigned the…