Our ground rules for meetings
Hands up if you love meetings. Anyone? No? Here are a couple of ‘inspirational’ quotations for you: Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything — John Kenneth Graham The least productive people are…
Category: Projects
Updates about projects or other pieces of work we are working on.
Digital prospectus business case
On Wednesday 16 September, the Digital Communications Portfolio Board approved a business case for redevelopment of the external University website. In essence, what we will be creating is a digital prospectus where…
The impact of changing the graduation web presence
Back in June, the digital communications team launched a new version of the graduation webpages. The main reason we were so keen to get the graduation website updated was because more and more of the visits to the…
Our design principles
Before designing a site you need a decision making framework. These are often called design principles. Here are the design principles we are using at St Andrews. Do you agree with them? Designing and building a…
Launch of new University home page
A prototype for the new University home page has been available since March this year. Finally it is time to make it live! From Monday, the prototype home page will become the home page for the whole University…
The story so far and next actions
As digital becomes critical to the University of St Andrews, we are adapting the way we run our website. As many of you are new to our mailing list and blog, we thought now might be a good time to summarise what work…
History of the homepage prototype project
The prototype homepage aimed at external audiences has been unveiled this week. It is the outcome of over a year of work. It has been an eventful year for the digital communications team. One year on from the launch of…
How do you solve a problem like a content management policy?
One of the projects that I (Carley) have been working on over the past few weeks is a review of the content management policy which Duncan and I worked on during the final phase of the Study at St Andrews project. (It…
The evolution of the Study at St Andrews design
We had intended on writing an article about the design process for the Study at St Andrews website. Sadly, there is this thing called proper work, and we haven’t had the time to do it. Today I began cleaning up the…
Creating a print style sheet
While we were very busy as we approached the end-of-February deadline for the new Study at St Andrews website, our daily update posts fizzled away. But I wanted to write about one further update that I made, because it…