Category: Technical developments & enhancements
New developments we’re working on (eg widgets, search) not tied to a specific CMS.
As part of the ongoing EdWeb migration, the User Experience (UX) team have been working alongside developers to identify any usability issues with migrated functionality before release. These issues can then be prioritised and addressed in future updates.
From browsing websites to using devices, our online interactions have a hidden impact on the planet that we often overlook. Join me as I explore these environmental costs during my internship with the Web and Communications team.
What is the Notifications Service? The Notifications Service is a solution which delivers personalised notifications and emergency notifications. As explained in our recent blog post, we have been rewriting the Notifications Backbone primarily to ensure that it is safe and secure, however we have used this as an opportunity to introduce some improvements both for […]
Space designed to inform how you can use our internal AI to enhance your work experience. For quite some time, LTW’s own AI Knowledge Hub has been available in the Generative AI Resource and Information Hub for LTW on SharePoint. It is aimed at providing general information on available AI tools and the associated ethical […]
Increase your AI preparedness – new internal resource to learn about AI and how it can aid our work.
Space designed to increase your AI preparedness I joined LTW this summer as a ChatGPT and OpenAI intern. I teamed up with Wietske and set out on intense three months journey to create a report aimed at establishing what part of AI is hype and what part can actually be useful for all of us […]
The University’s cookie consent approach has been under review and has now changed, shifting to a stricter approach against web analytics’ cookies, specifically those set by the Google Analytics platform. This change has been reflected by the introduction of a new cookie consent overlay and an updated guidance for our web publishing community. What is […]
The 3rd party twitter widget was originally developed to allow site owners to display a cookie free Twitter feed on their website ensuring the site content remains in line with EdWeb cookie consent. EdWeb – Cookies we use This widget was developed within the University using the Twitter API. Twitter have recently changed made significant […]
Google Analytics is a web analytics platform that collects data from websites and apps to create reports that provide insights into businesses. Google Analytics has been the chosen web analytics provider for the central University web estate for many years. A single Google Analytics property has been created for use across the central web estate […]
We’re about to get started on our Continuous Improvement project for Portal Services. This is a new project that will continue over the next 5 years, and will allow us to enhance and update our services to meet changing needs. We’re still at the planning and research stage, so we definitely don’t know everything that […]
It’s essential to build accessibility into your projects from the very beginning. For our Web Publishing Platform this doesn’t just mean that the website and its content needs to be accessible but the editorial interface of the content management system itself also needs to be accessible to as many people as possible.