Web Team Blog

Congratulations to our web ambassadors for the College of the Arts, School of Music and Performing Arts, and Department of Visual Arts, who have worked really hard to create brand new sites that are — if I do say so — pretty fab.

Spotlights are a great way to draw attention to specific information on your website, as well as add dimension and variety to the different pages on your site. We have to commend you, our web ambassadors, for really taking advantage of these tools to make your sites dynamic and interactive.

For all University websites, we use Google Analytics to tell us things like:

Congratulations to our newest owners of an official UL Lafayette website: The Institute for Coastal and Water Research!

After a busy few years, almost all colleges, departments, and offices now have their own website in the new University templates. As web ambassadors, you've all been through the basics of how to write for and work in your website, but there's a lot more our sites have to offer.

Over the last couple of months, we've been working with the new staff in the Office for Campus Diversity to reorganize and redo most of their site and its content so it better matches their vision for the office and the University.

On Monday, Aimee and I were given the directive that all CLIDs had to removed from University websites. At that point, everything else on our to-do lists got shoved to the back burner and we scoured every single website to find all of the published CLIDs and replace them with email aliases.

Attention, web ambassadors! Important announcement.

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