As you may have noticed, last week was a little quiet here on the blog. Even though we urge bloggers to post at least once a week, sometimes the Web team also encounters issues on the road to happy posting….
No, we’re not going to sing “Kumbaya” (but if that’s your thing, by all means, please don’t let me stop you). Since the early days of the web, web writers and programmers have sought to create “connections” between content. Hyperlinks…
We were concluding a recent dinner of Chinese takeout. Tasty, satisfying. And now it was fortune cookie time. The best part! I opened up my cookie: “Joy comes from adventure today. Time to shake the world up.” Ooohh. Exciting. Lost…
A Web refresh, that’s who. How do we do what we do? How do we approach a site refresh? It’s really funny, but when I was thinking about how I would tell you all of this, I was reminded…
So far, we’ve talked about our philosophies and views on the refresh. What’s worth noting is how we got to where we are so far. That is the point of this blog, after all: to shed more light on what…
Embarking on a refresh for the college site sounds daunting, even to me. But it’s not really that crazy of a thing, this refresh. It’s like going out and getting some new accessories for your little black dress. It’s…
A few days ago Melissa, Aaron, and I attended an AMA Webinar on Google Analytics and Website Optimizer—very cool. Google has free software that allows you to randomly test different versions of a page with live traffic. You can then…
Oh the vast array of colleges in the Buffalo area! UB, Medaille, Canisius, Daemen, Trocaire, NU, ECC, NCCC, and so on. Every college has an assortment of events, each thrown out there via their campus calendars. Each is important and…
Sue Zilliox and I recently presented a session on making the most of your faculty/staff Web presence at Winterim. Working with Mark McBride and Marc Bayer from E. H. Butler Library, we focused on using/maintaining faculty/staff template pages and explaining…