Web Team Blog

The Web Team is working on developing a web content training for all of our Web ambassadors to better help your users get the most out of your site. When you strike out to develop content for your department/office/college's new Web site, we don't want you to have to go at it alone. We want a Web...

Exciting changes have been happening to the Web Team over the last few months! We have three new team members and one who has shifted to a new role. Amy Windsor has migrated from her role as Web content strategist to social media strategist. She now oversees all of the University's social media...

I am pleased to announce that Amy Windsor (A-Dubs to most of you) has applied for and accepted a new position on the Web Team—social media strategist. Her new role will be to build online communities, capture and engage new audiences, coordinate viral campaigns and targeted online outreach programs...

As many of you know, we lost our exceptional trainer, Lisa, back in August. She returned to her prior post as a kindergarten teacher. We miss her and wish her all of the best! Lisa built the foundation for a strategic, accessible, and no-nonsense training program that we will gladly move forward. At...

Congrats to all of the round two site ambassadors who have completed training! Applause all around! You're rounding the bases, and home plate is in sight. All of the work you did beforehand with your content in Word is paying off now. You should be able to copy and paste the majority of your site...

Hello! We've been tidying up Louisiana.edu and one of our latest edits will affect your websites. In order to create clean up our URLs, /content/ has been removed from all of the sub-section pages. For example, louisiana.edu/content/admissions is now just louisiana.edu/admissions. This means that...

With more and more sites launching and our network of ambassadors growing, our team is working hard to ensure that we can share helpful information with the group to improve your sites. One way we plan to do so is through these blog posts. We know you have a lot going on. Checking blogs on this site...

As we launch more and more sites, we've noticed that people are struggling with the use of headings. We know this is a foreign concept to many of the new ambassadors, but it is extremely important. So, we thought we'd share a bit of info here to explain how and why they are used. So, what's a...

Amy and I finally landed on a name for our dynamic Web strategy duo. Seems fitting. And of course now I can't get the theme song out of my head... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz_2DEah4o

[beaming] We have a blog!! We now have a space where we can share web-related news coming down the pike, comment on each others' brilliance or our own idiocy (never the inverse!), and start building some online community. Can you feel the internet love? Okay, I swear you will not feel this much...