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We have dropped support for IE6 and I am going to try to push to drop support for IE 7 in good time. Bad thing is IE 8 is not really that much better. I think doing a browser check and prompting the user that their version is no longer supported a...
Yea, your infrastructure has to be able to support something like that. I would suggest that if you are going for some consistency in this process you should include the global header and footer so at least that is consistent. Also would help if y...
Every time you use javascript for interaction there should be a no-script solution. This one of the major principles in progressive enhancement.
How are you using it? Where are you using it? How are you making it degrade gracefully? What are you doing to make sure applications remain accessible?
To center a div do this:
#container {margin: 0 auto; width:xx px;}
or
#container {margin-left: 0 auto; margin-right: 0 auto; width:xx px;}
Expression Engine is great for mid-size companies I supposed. As mentioned, its less of an out of the box product, but that maybe what you need to accomplish what you want.
You may want to look into a ECMS (Enterprise Content Management System). ...
We are in the beginning stages of redesigning out website. Branding is important but I also think it is important to have variation in that. A university web site is a hairy best different ideas and different walks of life and I think that it can ...
I use 960 gs templates for designing but never really use the "framework", same with blueprint css. I do use the Myer's reset occasionally, but I have written my own reset before. I wouldn't really call these frameworks either. They are really rig...
I think they are both very important regardless of time line and budget. Your web expirence should be rich, fun and easy to use. I can't really see a design not appealing to the multiple audiences, its more in your information architecture and pag...
I'm a real big fan of white space, large font faces, ribbons, 1px highlighting, and gradients.
This can be accomplished by setting divs to display as tables and table cells. Very interesting approach and is supported in a lot of browser except IE (of course).
Here is a tutorial and better explanation:
http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screen...
I would suggest taking out any elements that are only relevant to the web and concentrating on formatting the text so that it is simplified and makes since when printed. As it was mentioned before you can do at @media print and source a stylesheet...
Profile Information
- Employer?
- University of Michigan-Flint
- Website:
- http://umflint.edu
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- UI, UX, CSS
- What CMS are you using?
- Interwoven Teamsite
- What department or office are you in?
- University Relations
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Currently I am like a one man department. I see projects through their entire project cycle. I am responsible for IA, wireframing, UI, UX and templating.
- Number of students at your institution
- 6000-7000?
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OmniUpdate’s CMS business is booming and we are looking for a strong software developer with Java experience. Help us grow our team.
Please add me too: naveenatwal @ googlewave.com
Thanks.
Morehouse College invites applications for Multimedia Developer in the Office of Communications.
Job Duties: The multimedia developer reports to the Director of Public Relations and works with the web content manager and the web developer. The mu...
Our Public Affairs department is responsible for the rotating content on our university front page (Cal State Fullerton). Outside of the basic architectural links, news and events are the only things highlighted. Whenever someone wants something, ...
Thanks! Our senior web designer, Stephen Bell, made it. He's in this ning community somewhere. :)
We also have Employment Opportunites listed as one of our main links on our home page and on every page. We even have our Employment links broken down into two different areas. One of students "Employment-Students" and one for regular full-time jo...
Hi all, I've just started a project to implement Harris Connect as an alumni portal/crm system and I'm looking for any success/horror stories that may be out there. Of most interest are any strategies that people have used for integration of Harri...
Employment Opportunities is one of the 12 main navigation links in the header of our Web site template. Therefore, it appears not only on the home page, but on almost every page of our site.
I just opened my account jfduguid (at) googlewave
Off topic, but the hide/show social media icon bar on your site is very well done.
Global footer that says "We're Hiring". It is one of our top visited pages.
Thanks for the feedback - the backstory here is that our HR office has requested to be on the homepage, but the college's Web Advisory committee has been refusing the request. I thought a link in the global footer would be a nice solution, so I'm ...
"Employment at SJC" is a link in our footer that is on every page, including the homepage. We also have a prominent link in the navigation one level down under our "About Us" section.
It's one of our top hits also.
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We have an Employment link in the footer of every page, including our home page.
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Yes, we list it on the homepage. Our HR person requested this as part of our redesign about a year ago and I thought it made sense.
We have a "Jobs" link in our global footer.
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