Updates about projects or other pieces of work we are working on.
More content migration I have been working on migrating more content. Undergraduate scholarships have now all been migrated, and will now need to be checked. I have now moved on to postgraduate scholarships. Content…
We have decided to update this blog throughout the test phase of the new Study at St Andrews website, to keep everyone up to date with our progress. Today the alpha phase launched. The website is still nowhere near…
The first project of the digital communications team is a relaunch of the website for prospective students. This project began about a year ago, long before the digital communications team was formed. Lean sessions In…
Web ReDesign 2.0 A few years ago I came across this really excellent book by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler: Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (New Riders, 2005). In 10 chapters Kelly and Emily lead you through the…
Yesterday I wrote a post about our first steps into the mobile web. Today I will look at what I had to do to make it happen. Learning about the principles The first step was to think about the principles behind mobile…
I thought I would try and take the advice of Brian Kelly who has suggested that web team members write a post a month about their work. It is particularly interesting that after coming back from IWMW I was struck by…
After nearly a year and a half of saying that we should do something about it, I’ve just added more content to the previously sadly lacking The Town and Beyond sections within Current Staff and Current Students. Most…
Following consultation with staff and students, and nearly nine months of work we launched the new website design for the University of St Andrews during the early evening of Monday (8 September). Unlike the website…