Web Team Blog

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. And we want to teach...

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. With that redesign, the Office for Campus Diversity wanted to...

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. A...

Attention, web ambassadors! Important announcement. On Wednesday morning, Webmaster Eric will be running an update on all of our sites that will aid security and performance. While this is happening, we won't be able to get into any website to make edits . And when I say "we," that means all of us...

It came all too soon but here we are, staring down another start to the academic year. It's an exciting, yet stressful time for all of us as students roam the halls again in masses and class begins. It's time to review web content and make sure that your site reflects this semester. Files need to be...

It's summer, we're floating along, and then all of a sudden — BAM. The fall semester is upon us. Every semester seems busier than the last and, inevitably, some things get lost in the shuffle. Don't let communication with your students be one of those things. I know my blogs are usually about things...

A little while back, we discovered that the events you entered on your individual websites weren't showing up on the University's main calendar, calendar.louisiana.edu. Well, it's fixed. Webmaster Eric fixed it. That's the whole point of this post. It was actually fixed a month or so ago, but we...

Last week, we worked with Marisa, the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration web ambassador extraordinaire, to put together a quick news piece about the AcceleRagin' program. However, we didn't focus on the program and the nitty gritty of its inner workings — instead, we wanted to know...

Now that the official University Post Office has moved to the Student Union, everyone has a shiny new box where their mail will arrive. And almost everyone's shiny new box has a shiny new number. If you want people to know where to send your mail, then you need to update your websites. Now, remember...

Story time: the other evening, my boyfriend and I were wading through our memories in an attempt to figure out the order of former attorneys general. After we both struggled to remember who was before Janet Reno, I grabbed my phone and Googled "attorney general." And that was it. We've become more...