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Nice examples.
I think navigation footers are great for large sites. Universities with their diverse audiences and robust information architectures are good candidates for them.
To point out the obvious, there is also a growing use of rich ui el...
We've been using supersleight and haven't had PNG transparency problems. IE6 users might see a white block in the background of a PNG but it goes away as the page loads. I too would like to see IE6 go away forever.
Any good designer will do the needed due diligence to create a great design. With wireframes and research provided to the designer, they should get up the learning curve much faster. If they see a problem with the wireframes and/or content, they s...
We did just that. Though we treat our wireframes as a guide and not as a set in stone layout. It can save some money, but it really helps the group responsible for the web site to discuss what content is needed before the design starts.
I have also noticed that organizations are including twitter feeds (as well as flickr and other feeds) on their sites.
I like the wall paper when done well.
http://www.lawrence.com
http://www.msichicago.org
http://www.espn.com
There are lots of examples around. These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
This thing about CSS is, that once you have found a way to deal with a particular browser fault, like MSIE6 and min-width or min-height, you have that solution in your toolbox. You only have to solve the problem once.
Yes, they can be different c...
On the topic of dealing with IE6, there's an interesting post (and lots of comments) on Dan Cederholm's blog titled "How I might deal with IE6". He links to a Jeffrey Zeldman article from 2001 entitled "To Hell With Bad Browsers".
On our site, we...
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 2:20pm on February 1, 2008,
Nourisha said… - hey brett. we seem to work in the same regional area. i use ku's website quite a bit for comparison. how do you guys manage such a large site without using a cms?
Profile Information
- Employer?
- University of Kansas
- Website:
- http://www.nhm.ku.edu
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- Web applications, frontend engineering, design
- What CMS are you using?
- None
- What department or office are you in?
- Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
- Primary Job Responsibility
- I just started here so my responsibilities will be shifting over the next few months. Right now I am working on analyzing the requirements for a complete, custom web architecture to support 120 researchers and staff members web needs.
- Number of students at your institution
- 26000
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For the main University calendar, we're using a fairly simple in house PHP/MySQL system developed about 5 years ago that still seems to be holding up pretty well. http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/
For departmental sites or niche uses, I've bee...
For staff members and web professionals whose main focus is research and graduate student recruitment and retention.
Share and discuss issues that focus on user-centered design.
Support group for those dealing with Apple-unfriendly IT staff at colleges and universities. :)
This group is for all those using WordPress as both a blogging platform and as a CMS
We're using Olark for our Admissions and Giving pages. There are several different plans available.
Olark provides several integrations (iPhone App, iChat, AOL, etc... basically anything with Jabber support).
We piloted LivePerson for our site la...
Personal policy we have in our division: It depends.
Ideally, I think facebook pages should go down to the division level— in our case College of Engineering, but not down to the department level (like Electrical Engineering). The reason being th...
Just an epilogue: We use Google Calendar then pull the RSS feed into our site with php.
Has worked perfectly for almost three years now and allows me to share the calendar access with others.
I'm at garethjmsaunders AT googlewave DOT com
We've been looking at Columba Systems' events software. They are based in London, UK.
It's not the cheapest, but it's really pretty good.
Coordinate and discuss with other users of the dotCMS content management system.
Would you say a Helios implementation requires a "developer" or someone who's comfortable with PHP and MySQL code? Our institution lost it's developer with no expectation to replace the role and Helios is being considered for implementation. Our g...
OmniUpdate congratulates Nathan Gerber, Director of Web Development Services, Utah Valley University, for his acceptance to speak on “The Benefits of SaaS Web CMS-Managing the Budget While Improving Agility, Adaptability, and Responsiveness," at t...
traeliz@gmail.com thanks!!!
Casey, can you send me an invite to your Google Wave. I have yet to receieve one. I have emailed Mark but have not heard from him about his invite. Can you help me get on the wave.
Thanks, Darren
Finally got my invite: mjpowers67 @ googlewave.com
Google Wave ID: hknox14
I'm testing wave. eosullivan@bridgew.edu
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