Web Team Blog

We all need to gather information from site visitors from time to time, whether it's an email address or phone number. But did you know that University, state, and federal laws prohibits us from collecting restrictive/sensitive information, such as social security number, credit card information, or...

Congratulations to the wonderful web ambassadors in University College! Their new site, universitycollege.louisiana.edu, marks the final phase of their transition to a new name. Quick background: The office formerly known as University College is now known as University Connection. The college...

It's been out of commission for a little while, but now it's back: the photo library! With the updates that happened today, our webmaster was able to fix some bugs and get the photo library back up and running for every site. To access your photo library, make your moves to insert a photo just like...

Take a quick second to open up a new tab in your browser and Google your department/school/college/office. Hopefully, if you included "UL Lafayette" in the search, your site should be the first to come up. Now, do you see those two lines of text below the name of your site? That's the summary...

Hey, awesome web ambassador. Yeah, I'm talking to you. You have been so great about using your sites to create events, which are set up to show up on the University's calendar.louisiana.edu site. Because you've been such rock stars, we found a glitch in our system that keeps your events from...

Spring is upon us! And with that comes the realization that you should probably start your spring cleaning. And inevitably you end up asking yourself, "How did I end up with all this stuff?" And you vow to not buy so much in the coming year. The same could be said about websites. Whether your...

Ah, tables. We're all familiar with them, but we may not be familiar with their intended purpose on the web. Before we keep going, let's get one thing clear: tables are for sets of data. They should not be used to manipulate layout on a page. Like we've mentioned before, there are web accessibility...

The web environment was updated today, and because technology can never seem to go smoothly, there appears to be a new glitch. All of the drop-down menus on events and forms have lost their drop-down feature. Instead, they are displaying as lists you have to scroll through. I just had a phone call...

In my last blog, I addressed issues and new features on your mobile sites. Today, I'm happy to report that the issue of secondary navigation appearing below other blocks on some of the mobile sites has been fixed! Now all sites should have the second layer of links appear as the first thing on all...

Wednesday was a big day. The mobile version of our websites was more than two years in the making, and now users will have much more accessible sites to view on their mobile devices. Your sites are now easier to use and in the palms of students hands walking around campus. While the launch went well...