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Hacks meet Hackers
It’s been a busy week with the Institutional Web Management Workshop last Monday to Wednesday in Sheffield and WordCamp UK happening in Manchester this weekend but on Friday I took a day off to pop...
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He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
At IWMW last week I ran a BarCamp session titled “Slate My Website… and Your Website?”. As I explained on the IWMW blog, the format of the session is based on Nick DeNardis’ EDU Checkup and consists of...
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QR Treasure Hunt
Yesterday, Learning Services launched their Code Breaker Challenge – aimed at getting new (and returning) students to find their way around the facilities and try out a bit of new technology along the...
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Was 2010 the year of Open Data?
In a little-read post published last Christmas Eve as part of our previous 25 days project I suggested 2010 might be the year open data became important: I don’t like to predict the future – usually...
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Dashboards
In my previous post I talked about Wallboards. As an aside, I’ve just started experimenting with using some old O2 Joggler’s as miniature information radiators in my new home. But that’s another blog...
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Developing using jQuery, Firefox and Firebug
Its becoming more important to know jQuery. If you haven’t heard of jQuery, its one of the most commonly used javascript libraries used on the web. We use it for the corporate site, Hi, and GO. If your...
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OMAC Buzz Words
Tuesday saw the first meeting of OMAC – the Online Marketing and Communications project that will, over the coming months, address a wide variety of issues with our main external website. As Roy will...
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Opening the (Flood)Gates
‘Mister’ Roy Bayfield reflects on empowerment of users Part of the next stage of evolution of the Edge Hill site will be greater distribution of direct content creation across academic departments....
View ArticleArrays in dBs and YAML Config
I’m working on some new mega-menus for GO. I’ll post about that when we go live. Following a pre-Christmas code review of the user-defined munu choices, we identified that we needed a way to provide a...
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Slightly more Regular Expressions
For me regular expressions are like magic. I can appreciate the wonderful things they can do but I’ve never really understood how the trick works. As I develop primarily in PHP there are plenty of PHP...
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Shorter URLs
Recently we successfully registered an additional domain name – ehu.ac.uk – for the University. Rather than simply using this as an additional alias for the main website addresses, we’re using it to...
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Mega Menus for GO
For anybody reading this blog from outside Edge Hill, we have a staff and student portal called GO. GO is intended to eventually replace the current intranet. Due the the vast nature of the internal...
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OMAC (Word)Pressing on
It’s been a quiet few months on the Web Services blog but there’s been load going on behind slightly ajar doors! In December we launched the Online Marketing and Communications (OMAC) Project with five...
View ArticleHelp test our website
As our new designs progress apace, we’re looking for some willing subjects to help us test the website. We’ll probably be trying a number of different techniques but essentially they involve trying out...
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New website live!
Yesterday afternoon we launched our new website. Over the next few blog posts we’ll try to explain some of the things we’ve done including some hard decisions but for now, please take a look at the...
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Browser Support
A couple of weeks ago, Google announced that from 1 August 2011 they will be changing the way they support web browsers for their Google Apps products including Gmail. Their blog post gives a little...
View ArticleWordPress 3.2
We’ve just upgraded our blogging system to the latest version of WordPress – version 3.2. Currently this is just for the blogging network but we’ll be testing and rolling it out to WordPress powered...
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Event Tracking with Google Analytics
Previously we’ve showed how we’re starting to make use of A/B testing to measure the proposed improvements to our site. We’ve also started using other more advanced features of Google Analytics on...
View ArticleWeb Applications Developer
We’re currently recruiting a web applications developer. The post will join the web development side of Web Services working on a variety of systems that power the Edge Hill website and portal. The...
View ArticleLazy Page Loading
Computers on campus have a number of default tabs when you open a web browser. IT Services were recently asked to add the Students’ Union website to these default tabs which threw up a couple of...
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