How to do digital better
9 content tips to help you build a better digital service Gov.uk share nine content design tips. I particularly like item 5, something I have been advocating for a while: Don’t explain the interface – improve it One of…
Why we are now bridge builders
From intranet to net-work: the rise of the digital bridge builder Partly following on from developments at the University, and partly on discussions at IWMW, I have been thinking a lot recently about the siloed nature…
Portals: learning lessons from Edinburgh
This is part of a series of reflections on this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop. Read an introduction and the other posts. On the final day of IWMW there was an entertaining and useful talk about portals…
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 digital vision
This is the fourth of a series of reflections on this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop. Read an introduction and the other posts. The final session asked: “what is our vision for the institutional web and…
Own your bad news
What do you do when something goes wrong; when something goes wrong in an obvious and public way? Should you tell your users that you’re dealing with it, even if at that point you have no idea what’s causing the…
Mental health in web development
Back in November (21–22) 2013 I travelled to Dublin to TerminalFour‘s annual global user conference t44u at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. TerminalFour develop the web content management system that we use here…
Moving the University website to HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS
When we redesigned the University website in 2008 we adopted the Blueprint CSS framework which greatly cut down our CSS development time. It offered us a solid, cross-browser compatible foundation on which to build our…
Coloured lists in Trello
As you probably know, we’re big fans of Trello here in the web team. We have a number of project boards, overseen by one master, everything-we’re-doing™ board called @Web team. It currently has 24 columns (or lists)…
The new Study at St Andrews website has launched
After over 12 months of hard work from a lot of people, we have finally launched the new Study at St Andrews website, the replacement for the Admissions website. It has been a long and interesting journey. From the…