Essential web developer skills
In the next few months we’re going to be gearing up to fill two posts (one replacement and one new post) to join the web team: a developer and an apprentice. So I’ve been thinking about a couple of things: What skills…
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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.
Updating the University shield
Here’s a minor update that I made to the University website this afternoon: I updated the University shield across most of the central website. As you can see from the screenshot above, the problem with the old one was…
Which browsers do you support?
I’m currently working on a document of guidelines for our web team and web developers. Something that I’ve been asked to include is to indicate which browsers we support. Digging around, for example, Yahoo! have their…
Trello at St Andrews
At the meeting of the Scottish Web Folk, on Thursday 31 May held at the University of Edinburgh, I gave the above presentation about Trello from Fog Creek Software. Trello is, according to its own help text, a…
Redesigned: Current staff research
A project that’s been lurking on our backlog for months (actually years) is the second half of an update to the research pages, overseen by the Research Policy Office. Part one was the redesign of the high-level…
Temporary website for EuCOMC XX – the 20th EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry
A couple of weeks ago we had a visit from someone from our Conference and Group Services (CGS) unit asking for a small website to be created quickly. It was for the intriguingly-entitled EuCOMC XX, or the 20th EuCheMS…
Web team support calls from 2010-2011
(Click the graph to see a larger version.) This morning I’ve been gathering data for a meeting with have with the University Lean team tomorrow, including this graph of support calls (above). I thought I’d share…
Replacing the website header when printing web pages
Until this week, printing web pages resulted in the University crest looking broken and ugly. We needed to find a way to replace this for printed documents. We achieved this with a few tweaks to one jQuery file, common…
Moving our team task board online to Trello
For the last few years the Web team have been using, and adapting, a form of Agile/Kanban board to manage what tasks need to be done and by whom. It has served us very well, but this week we moved it online to Trello,…
Using XAMPP web server
As we all (should) know testing out software on live environments isn’t particularly sensible. For the last five years in the office, and longer at home, I’ve been running XAMPP from Apache Friends as a test server on…