At this month’s session we got our first glimpse of how forms will look in EdWeb as well as hearing about the developments for viewing EdWeb on small screen devices and website search enhancements.
During March we undertook some user research with University staff and students to look at how they interact with the new website design on small screen mobile devices. I presented our findings and what we’re going to do with them at last week’s Web Publishing Community session.
We don’t advocate inline links on our University website. In fact, the current corporate content management system (CMS) Polopoly, won’t allow them. At present, the new CMS EdWeb will but this may change in future. I thought it was a good point to go over why we’ve set the policy, and clarify a few things […]
We’ve had web editors at clinics this week making preparations for their site’s migration to EdWeb, with a particular focus on Overview pages and Summary sentences.
Last week, the team went to see Gavin McLachlan talk about his aims for the University, and it was great to see we’re on the same page on some key issues.
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.
We’ll be introducing a few refinements to the new website design on the smallest screen sizes in the near future. This week we’ve been parallel testing three versions with staff and students around the campus.
For a little over 6 months now the EdWeb development team has been getting together to watch staff try out EdWeb in a regular, systematic fashion and sharing our findings via the project wiki. This post is a quick reflection on how far we’ve come.
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.
On Monday 23 February, I was invited to come along to the Innovative Learning Week’s “Smart Data Hack”, hosted by the School of Informatics, to talk about prototyping.
