Vanessa Zervogianni has joined us as a Usability Testing Service Assistant, enabling the pilot service to support more schools and business units to make their websites and software more user friendly.

Once again we’re contributing to the annual UK Higher Education web managers conference, IWMW. It’s a great opportunity to learn from and network with colleagues in our sector, and we’re encouraging staff here in Edinburgh to join us at Liverpool John Moores University, 21-23 June.

After just over a year working at the UWP, it is now time to say my goodbyes as I leave to take up a new post outwith the University. It has been an overwhelmingly positive experience, and I have acquired a whole host of new editorial and technical skills, which I hope to carry forward […]

This month’s Web Publishers’ Community session included talks on Lean UX, responsive widgets and the monthly project update on the EdWeb CMS. We were also joined by two guest speakers: Ewan McAndrew, the new Wikimedian in Residence and Stephen Donnelly, who spoke about the new media asset management system, Media Hopper.

After 10 years heading up the University Website Programme, Dawn Ellis left the University in December 2015. During this time, Dawn has overseen huge change in the University’s online presence.

We’ve won the 2015 Best Mobile Website award from the Web Marketing Association in the education  category, for the quality of our website when viewed on mobile devices. This is a reflection of all the work we’ve done on making the site responsive for all screen sizes, including mobile devices such as tablets and mobile […]

The University’s new Drupal-based central website has been recognised by the Scottish Drupal community, winning the Best Public/Not for profit Drupal website category in the Scottish Drupal Awards 2015.

For the University, August is a month of change as it signifies the beginning of a new academic year. For the IS LTW Website & Communications team, as well as other units, it brings another kind of change as well.

This summer we were joined by Informatics student Mattias Appelgren on a University internship. Here’s what he had to say about his experience:

I’m currently in the fifth week of my eight week internship with the UWP tech team. So far it’s been a really enjoyable experience.