Digital Communications team update – October 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for October 2020.
Category: Resources
Reviews, lists, and responses to articles or resources we think are interesting or useful.
Scrolling and the illusion of completeness
How can web designers and developers encourage users to scroll? In 2018, the Nielsen Norman Group reported that 57% of user’s viewing time was spent above the fold (the first visible area of a webpage without…
Gateway pages for PDFs
The Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) recently published a compelling article on why PDFs should be avoided at all costs on the web: Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading.
Text scanning patterns
When a user engages with content on a web page, they are unlikely to spend time reading every word of text. They are more likely to scan the content for headings, keywords, images or videos which are of interest to…
Digital Communications team update – September 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for September 2020.
How to customise your background in Microsoft Teams video calls
For latest support on how to add custom backgrounds to Microsoft Teams, see their official support page. Microsoft Teams will soon be rolling out a new feature that allows users to add custom backgrounds to their video…
The meeting formerly known as ‘DAB’
The Digital Advisory Board (DAB) has been replaced with the Digital Forum. The Digital Forum will take place on the last Wednesday afternoon of each month. All staff are welcome to attend. The format of the Digital…
IT security event
We were pleased to attend the IT Services security event on Thursday 8 November 2018, which hosted a number of interesting speakers from different IT security specialisms. The event provided a deeper awareness of IT…
Migrating a WordPress single install to a multisite – direct method
Migrating a WordPress single site install into a WordPress multisite isn’t exactly straightforward, but I’d like to present a method for those of you that are not scared of FTP, SQL queries or dropping some tables. So,…
Why we moved from Siteimprove to Sitemorse
Last year I wrote a blog post about how we were using Siteimprove to help find and fix broken links and spelling mistakes on our website. But a few months ago we decided to move to another company to provide this…