Study at St Andrews progress report: 6 February
Today’s update comes courtesy of Carley! Course search reskin Lewis has been polishing his design to reskin the course search section of the website. It’s looking really good – particularly the use of...
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A quick update from Carley today! Content updates Duncan has been working hard on content tweaks and updates across the site. It feels like we’re getting closer to something which we’re happy launching...
View ArticleStudy at St Andrews progress report: 19 February
Hi all, Carley here again! Today has been a meeting filled day, but one which has left us looking forward past the Study at St Andrews website and into the future, which is quite exciting. Entrance...
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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...
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“What’s the value in pixels?” – the ethos of digital change
Two weeks ago, Paul Boag, co-founder of digital consultancy Headscape and author of Digital Adaption gave a lecture to staff at the University. Titled ‘Digital change’, the talk outlined how digital...
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Why is the user important?
As we may have mentioned a few times already, the digital communications team is committed to a user centred approach to our work: whether that be research, design, content or build. We have placed...
View ArticleHow to submit an idea
One of the updates that the digital communications team has been working on for the last year has been our processes for taking on new projects. Having spent a lot of time developing and documenting...
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IWMW 2015: An introduction
I was lucky enough to attend IWMW – Institutional Web Management Workshop – 2015 a couple of weeks ago. The theme of this year’s session was “Beyond digital: transforming the institution”, which, if...
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The impact of changing the graduation web presence
Back in June, the digital communications team launched a new version of the graduation webpages. The main reason we were so keen to get the graduation website updated was because more and more of the...
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IWMW 2015: Agile content
Considering that the digital communications team is committed to working in an agile manner, and I’m the lead digital content person for the University, a workshop titled “Working in an agile way:...
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Introductions
The Digital Communications team is growing and we would like to take this opportunity to introduce our four newest recruits. We’re pleased to have Duncan Sanderson joining our team as a web developer,...
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Iterative improvement with Agile
Since the digital communications team were trained in the DSDM Agile method of project management at the beginning of last year, we’ve talked to a lot of people about what Agile is and what it means...
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How do we decide what goes on the homepage?
The University homepage is, for many users, the front door to the University website. For some, it’s the first impression that they’ll have of the University; for others, it’s a frequently visited...
View ArticleThe responsibilities of the digital communications team
The responsibilities of the digital communications team have changed a lot in the last two years; a result of the combination of the original digital communications team and the web team, the addition...
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An introduction to SEO
Google is a prominent force in the digital landscape: owner of Gmail, YouTube, Chrome web browser and the Android operating system. However, for most of us, the word Google still conjures up images of...
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Making University news digital
Research has shown that digital users are rarely interested in the press release articles which are often shown under a ‘News’ heading on a university website. Back in 2013, Paul Boag quoted a report...
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The new postgraduate taught course pages are live!
Over the last six months, the content team have been working hard to create centralised web pages which advertise each of the postgraduate taught courses on offer at St Andrews for a 2016 entry. With...
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How we plan to move to T4v8
One of the key milestones of the external website project is moving to the newest version of our content management system – T4. All of the digital communications team have been looking forward to...
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Why we’ve shelved the Schools website project (for now!)
Over the last year, a number of academic schools have asked us whether we could roll out the design of the School of Economics website, which launched late last year, to other schools. The team...
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Adding new postgraduate taught programmes to Study
Over the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a lot of schools and academics about the postgraduate taught programmes offered by the University. Launching new, centralised webpages for all of...
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