Web Team Blog

The semester is coming to an end and it’s time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished this year.

And in the spirit of the holiday season, we’re celebrating the “12 yays” of the web team!

We’re making major progress on the website redesign. Between building the new site and creating all of the content for it, we have a busy few months ahead.

You’re busy. There’s too much to be done and not enough hours in the day. We get it. And we feel your pain.

Creating web content has been added to your plate on top of everything else you do. It may seem like too much or feel out of your comfort zone. We get that too.

This website redesign is a massive project — and we need our web ambassadors' help. Here's how we're planning on tackling it all.

Thanks to web ambassador Cheryl in the Office of Campus Diversity for suggesting this topic!

After months of preparation, the new calendar is finally here! It is now available for the world to see at calendar.louisiana.edu.

The new calendar is a comprehensive view of everything happening on campus.

This calendar aggregates all events from:

We're preparing to launch a new online calendar system that will replace the current way we enter events into the website. It will go live on Thursday, Sept. 5. Any events happening after that date should be entered into the new system.

This summer, we surveyed our web ambassadors to see if they would take advantage of web team office hours if we offered them.

The overwhelming response was YES! Most of you said you would take advantage of office hours and that’d you like to have it offered every other week.

To illustrate the power of a social media campaign surrounding a national awareness week, let’s look at the Department of Nursing’s 2019 #NationalNursesWeek campaign.

You know what they say about timing — it’s everything! And it’s no different on social media.