Replacing the Flash world map
One of the biggest issues we have had to tackle while working on the new Study at St Andrews website is the entrance requirements and country information section. The website contained a Flash world map that was…
One of the biggest issues we have had to tackle while working on the new Study at St Andrews website is the entrance requirements and country information section. The website contained a Flash world map that was…
It has felt like a reasonably productive day today. I asked a professional about it as well, and she agreed. Mobile design debugging I spotted a couple of design issues in mobile view that hadn’t existed before. Some…
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…
Lost for words: Google stops providing keywords A couple of weeks ago, I covered the news that Google Search was no longer passing on keyword data to analytics tools. This blog post from the Government Digital Service…
In keeping with my 2008 review of browser umbrellas, it seems about time I reviewed something else. So how about enterprise web content management system (CMS) promotional pens? As these pens were freebies from three…
Something that I’ve been keen to introduce to the web team for quite a while is a coding standard: a style guide, a consistent way for the whole team to write and format their code (whether HTML, CSS, JavaScript or…
The University of St Andrews is looking for an experienced web designer and an experienced web copywriter to join a small start-up team supporting the marketing of the University. The posts will sit within Corporate…
I have begun to share interesting articles, along with my comments, with some staff members internally. It has been suggested that it would be good to publish these on the web team blog as well. So here they are.…
About a month ago (this blog post has taken ages to write) I travelled down to Edinburgh with my colleague Duncan for the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) which this year was being hosted by the…
In many ways it has felt like that saying about the cobbler’s shoes: we spend so much time fixing other people’s websites that we don’t have the time to fix our own. But no longer! This week we finally redesigned the…