"Our main departmental site has about 1000 unique visitors a day. We self host and use MaxCDN for serving static files. Since we've started we've watched our load times go from as high as 45 seconds for first load down to around 5. I doubt…"
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Chad Hietala
- 26, Male
- Grand Blanc, MI
- United States
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Higher Ed and CDNs
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Wiegman Mar 14, 2011.
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Chad Hietala posted a discussionHigher Ed and CDN's
I was just wondering if anyone is paying for CDN services to serve their static files? What is your average traffic like? What were the performance gains?
Chad Hietala replied to Stephen Bell's discussion HTML Scraping to Migrate Web Content"I would look into YQL (Yahoo Query Library). You can build your own query that delivers either an XML tree or JSON structure then parse that query with any language. I've never used in the matter you are looking to do but it's worth a shot."
Chad Hietala replied to Jason Garber's discussion Can we band together to kill off IE6?"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 and…"
Chad Hietala joined Michael Fienen's group
AJAX and Javascript
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?See More
Chad Hietala replied to Shere Hicks McClamb's discussion Margin Problems in the group CSS"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;}"
Chad Hietala replied to Tina's discussion Any one use or heard of Expression Engine"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…"
Chad Hietala replied to Drew Stephens's discussion University Web Branding: Good or Evil? in the group Design"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 be…"
Chad Hietala replied to David Boddie's discussion CSS Frameworks? in the group CSS"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.…"
Chad Hietala replied to Andrea M. Dillon's discussion Design vs. Usability in the group Design"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…"
Chad Hietala replied to Tina's discussion What are some of the current Design Trends people like? in the group Design"I'm a real big fan of white space, large font faces, ribbons, 1px highlighting, and gradients."
Chad Hietala replied to Tina's discussion CSS3 vs CSS 2 - Columns in Text in the group CSS"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…"
Chad Hietala replied to Jody Benedict's discussion Print Stylesheets in the group CSS"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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Daniel Bashaw replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"Hi Kimbel -- Does you manual process include a checklist and workflow documentation?
If not, it sounds to me like checklists and schedulers are your best next steps. You can structure and document what you do now, and then look at it to see if there…"
Kimbel Jeffers replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"The problem is we use a manual process right now and things keep falling through the cracks."
Annette Spearman replied to Derek Tonn's discussion Freelance web design recommendations (small projects)"Hi Derek,
We can help you! I'll in box you all my info so we can connect and set up some time to talk.
Annette
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Mark Rothbaum posted a discussion5-Minute Survey on Use of Facebook in Admissions
We're conducting our annual survey on Facebook and Admissions. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at:http://www.varsityoutreach.com/FacebookSurvey/Our GoalOur goal is to explore trends related to how schools are using Facebook to reach out to prospective and admitted students.How Is the Data Used?All data will be shown in the aggregate. Answers from individual schools will not be released and will remain…See More
Colleen Brennan-Barry posted a discussionHighEdWeb Welcomes Steve Wozniak & Scott Stratten
HighEdWeb is very pleased to announce HighEdWeb 2013 Annual Conference opening keynote speaker Steve Wozniak and closing keynote speaker…See More
faris ahmed commented on social networking web design's blog post Megastar Media Webby Award Honorees"wow thats amazing article .
your stuff never fails to amaze me
honestly . great work as always :D
something i would like to add in is that
the entries each year are rapidly increasing .
but i think thats cause they take the…"
Lynn Zawie posted a discussionFreelance Web Developer Needed
Stony Brook University web team is looking for some help coding a new design. HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Responsive Design expertise needed. If you are interested in bidding on this project, I am happy to share more details. Work would need to begin early summer. ..LynnSee More
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Great blog post by Higher Education Marketing on leveraging Google pay-per-click ad extensions for higher ed."
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Check out Naropa University's new online magazine. Looks awesome! Great job team."
Norma J Dowell replied to Derek Tonn's discussion Freelance web design recommendations (small projects)"Hi Derek!
First of all, apologies for taking so long to respond! Secondly, I am not your web developer for such an issue, but if you can find someone to pick their brain and use as a sounding board, it may be all you need. In the past, when I…"
Daniel Bashaw replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"Hi Kimbel.
I know you've been tasked with finding a software solution, though I'm wondering if you may need an interim step first: Does your institution have checklists covering all of the steps needed in on-boarding, relocating, and…"
Kimbel Jeffers posted a discussionOffice Reservation software
I've been tasked with finding a software tool that helps manage the onboarding and exit process of new and departing faculty. Ultimately i would like this software to management faculty office interms of when resources can be removed from a particular office and when a new faculty member can be moved in with the necessary resources. This tool should have notifications and alerts so there are no conflicts with someone being removed from a office and someone being placed in a office. Does anyone…See More
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Congrats to Harper College on going live with their new online course catalog! Looks great!"
Helen Mosher posted a status"After 8 years being away from higher-ed communications work, I'm very interested in returning."
Sarah McMaster replied to Katra Farah's discussion Online chat interfaces"Thanks, Daniel. We don't currently have any livechat solution so this is new fact-finding territory for us! I will keep the forum posted as/if we are able to move forward."
Daniel Bashaw replied to Katra Farah's discussion Online chat interfaces"In our case the impact of our current proprietary chat tool seems to be minimal, as it is little-used. It requires log-in with contact details and is slow to load. I don't have any metrics on its impact to back up my perception though.
I expect…"
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