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.

The UWP-led team responsible for the delivery of the new EdWeb CMS were shortlisted for ICT Team of the Year in May. While we didn’t receive the top prize at the Holyrood Connect Awards ceremony in Glasgow last week we are still very pleased with a top 3 finish.

On 22 April, members of the team collected our Silver award at the Sustainability Awards Ceremony.

As a new member of the Editorial Assistant team here at the University Website Programme, working with EdWeb will form a rather large chunk of my day-to-day activities. Therefore, it was vital that I formed a good working relationship with it right from the very beginning.

The academic year 2013-14 has been one of innovation, discourse and development for UWP. We have made major headway with our planned move to the new Drupal-based CMS, EdWeb, and are proud of its foundation in user-centric principles.

Last month we sadly said goodbye to Editorial Development Officer Lucy Janes, who left the team after nearly two years with us to take up a new post.