The University of Edinburgh has been nominated for the Website of the Year award in the category of Career and Education. You can vote for the University of Edinburgh website and help us win this award.

As we have reached a break in the development of EdWeb, now is the time to look at our old and new Content Management Systems objectively. I’m looking for colleagues to help me do this. If you have experience of both Polopoly and EdWeb, and can spare an hour or so, you can get involved.

As the migration to EdWeb passed the halfway mark in September the WPC gathered to hear about the plans for the future of EdWeb. The flexibility of homepages in EdWeb was also highlighted along with an update of the work currently being carried out on cookie management.

We have just created some Balsamiq templates for EdWeb users, which you can use to make mockup pages for your websites.

To move forward you sometimes need to take a step back and review the direction you are going in. That’s exactly what we are doing at the moment as our first CMS project closes and the next one opens. We hope to move into our next phase, the CMS enhancements project, in early November 2015.

With so many changes going on as part of the EdWeb migration project it’s almost inevitable that some users will end up on the University’s 404 error page.

When I’m not editing sites at UWP, I’m managing the University at the Festivals website, which is set to migrate into EdWeb next month. Having recently gone through the Editor Task Checklist to get my site ready, I’ve now seen both sides of the migration process and wanted to share some top tips on things […]

Due to the popularity of our trial EdWeb migration preparation session, we’re now going to conduct these sessions on a monthly basis to assist editors with their preparation work before their move from Polopoly to EdWeb.

Once again, we’d like to thank all those who came to this month’s WPC session. It’s been a very busy summer and this week we were pleased to announce the successful migration of our 100th site to EdWeb! This is a fantastic achievement and one that we are hugely proud of. However, there is still […]

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.