Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we give “real world” numbers on making things go fast.

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We have an installation of some monitoring software. It monitors the accessibility of web pages. It creates static HTML reports. A different report is generated for each “site” we monitor. Separate HTML reports are fine, even preferred at times, except that they are totally useless for getting a bigger picture of […]

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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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We’ve been tinkering with the campus search interface. Recently, we added a list of popular search terms from the previous day. It’s like a daily Zeitgeist right on the search page! Brilliant! Would something like this be helpful? Test out the new interface and let us know what you think! Go Search!

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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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From time to time we in WEBD poke and prod at some development stuff. We look at new technologies and new techniques that we feel might be able to enhance the campus web presence or the help our end-users in some manner. Today, we launched a “beta” of a new Campus Search page that we’ve […]

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Wherein we talk of launching a new app and our awesome new production server setup.

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Wherein we show off new stuff.

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Wherein we figure out how to upgrade PEAR on RHEL 4.

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Wherein we hear about accessibility from people who use assistive technology.

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