Institutional Knowledge

Mulling through some more data, here’s a look at the Campus web server statistics from the last 6 months compared with the previous 6 months.

Internet Explorer users declined by 14%
Firefox users grew by 1.8%
Safari users grew by 6%
Windows users declined 12%~
Mac users increased 10%~
Users with monitors set to 1680×1050 grew 30%~
Users with monitors set to […]

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Yesterday we launched a refresh of the online Campus Directory as apart of our efforts to remediate websites that are not accessible. The update looks more or less the same visually, but there’s much more exciting stuff happening under the hood including a sprinkling of the hCard Microformat where applicable.

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Years ago in an interview I was asked how I would solve the university’s web consistency problem. At the time, the thought was “good luck!” In an environment with a decentralized web site, it seemed unlikely that content management would happen. That question has been asked once again, but now we’re in a better position […]

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When the university gets around to redesigning the campus web presence, it will need to meet the following goals:

Accessible
Manageable
Usable
Findable
Flexible

If implemented properly, Web Content Management would be a great tool for making inroads toward achieving the first three: accessibility, web document management, and usability.

By placing the onus for accessible templates in the hands of developers who […]

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As the summer winds down, WEBD has successfully completed the uPortal upgrade that we’ve been diligently working on for the past month. In addition to moving to the uPortal 2.6 framework, and DLM based layouts, we’ve improved the presentation layer quite a bit.

The most exciting element of the upgrade is the move away from table […]

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Yesterday, we updated the CAS interface. It’s now based on the Yahoo YUI CSS library. Working with the YUI library has been a blessing. We’ve converted most of our web applications, as well as any websites we create, and even a few we update, to use the YUI library. Next up to get converted to […]

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It is just me or did anyone else notice that iGoogle (aka Google Personalized Homepage) is now using YUI Grids ? Talk about validating the direction you’ve choosen for adapting a framework: both Yahoo and Google are now using the YUI Grids framework. Mega Cool.

Technorati Tags:
yui, yahoo, igoogle,

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A very subtle change occurred on campus today. No, it wasn’t the mysterious JunkMail Digests that appeared in our inbox, rather a step forward toward a better future.

At the request of Public Affairs, we updated the Public Facilities page. With the ATI we’ve been cleaning up some of the pages on the campus web server […]

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Grids are Good and How to Design with them was by far the best session I’ve attended so far. I was disappointed that it was only 30 minutes long as Mark Boulton and Khoi Vinh were great presenters and made grid theory very accessible. Here are some highlight points from their presentations.

Humans like to infer […]

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Wherein we re-factor to improve usability and accessibility.

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