Web Team Blog

On February 11, all University websites will be made mobile-friendly. That means ALL websites—including yours. The mobile layout is designed to maximize user experience within the limited frame of screens. Analytics and user testing helped inform how the mobile sites should function. Louisiana.edu...

As we get ready for the mobile launch, we're making some adjustments to our live sites so the transition will be a little easier. That includes making your news block disappear when your latest news entry is more than 90 days old. On your mobile site, news and events will be the first item to...

A quick guide to using your site's tools so you can improve the experience for every site visitor. Making your users trudge through mud to get the information they need is not exactly encouraging and doesn't say, "Welcome to UL Lafayette!" When we say "site accessibility," most often we're talking...

We're two weeks into the semester, and 2015 is well underway. It's time to stop and ask, "Is my website feeling neglected?" Sure, it's not a puppy that will remind you when it needs to eat or go out every 2 hours, but websites have needs too. They can get lonely, cobwebs can start to accumulate, and...

When it comes to new projects, we're learning that the process is almost as important as the final product. When we share that process, we all learn from each other. When Aimee and I attended the ConfabEDU conference last month, one of our keynote speakers was Austin Kleon, (author of "Steal Like an...

Our team is currently working on a mobile version of the University's websites. It's been a lot of planning, testing, reorganizing, and conversation so far, but we're really starting to see some progress. The goal is to have everyone's sites mobile in early 2015. We need your help. As the mobile...

Aimee and I trekked to Atlanta for the annual ConfabEDU, a three-day conference for professionals who work exclusively with website content in higher education. We spent three days cramming as much information and as many ideas as we could into our brains and notebooks — and we spent the last week...

Web Ambassadors rejoice! Links to PDF documents can now be added from the Page Edit tab. Veteran Web Ambassadors learned to link to a document using the old method: upload the file, click on a link, click on another link, copy the document's URL from the address bar, THEN go into the Edit tab of a...

Need to add a new person to your site? Did someone who had access to your site move on? There's a form for that! The Web Team is constantly working to streamline and simplify the processes for accessing the University's sites. We get so many requests for new Web ambassadors (yay, you love us!) and...

Congratulations to all of our web ambassadors who braved through our first Web Writing Workshops. We're really excited about what we were able to accomplish in the workshops, and how great you've been at developing content on your own. From now on, we'll be having workshops for all of the colleges...