After more than a decade, tomorrow is my last day working in the Digital team. The team's had different names, and I've had different roles, but my mission has always been the same: improve the University's online presence through applied use of technology. While trying to live up to this, I've been privileged to work not just with the developers, but also our editors, product support an...

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Hi, I'm Rob, an A-level work experience student who was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to join the digital team last week. The past week has been a great experience, after being introduced to the self proclaimed king of the nerds and the rest of the team it was straight to work with Tom on the development of a replacement application for the old

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Welcome to the end of February! It's been a short month but that doesn't mean there's been any lack of activity chez Digital. We're now just waiting to press the button on the new Agresso website, and Paul has written about some of the user testing we did for that site. Whilst our fingers were hovering ...

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This is our sixth weekly update. Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number and on this occasion we have precisely six things we've been doing to tell you about: the most obvious thing is that we've updated the font stack we use across the site; previously we had more than 120 rules defined in more than a dozen stylesheets, each specify...

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With our new glorious leader sunning himself in Spain for a few days, I draw the winning lot to reflect on our output of the past week, it's been a really good one where progress has been made on a wide variety of products: Our September Open Day is tomorrow, which we're really looking forward to (10,000 visitors really makes the place buzz!) and we'll be monitoring social media al...

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Christopher Gutteridge (@cgutteridge) tweeted at 10:01 AM on Thu, Jun 27, 2013: Over 100 people in the responsive design session at #iwmw13. Question "who's cynical about responsive design?" - no hands go up. Unive...

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We're looking to hire an awesome new front-end developer. Hip to HTML5? Savvy with CSS? Read more about the job! Applications for this job have now closed.

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There is a list being kept of HE websites which are using responsive design techniques to change how their pages appear based on the size of the screen loading them. I think that this is a waste of time. Making websites reflow, and changing the design a bit (top nav becomes a dropdown etc.) based on screen size is easy. ...

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QR codes are increasingly in use around campus and, regardless of opinions of whether they are actually useful or not, there are still some best practices to follow to get the best results: legibility suitabilit...

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For our September 2011 Open Day we put together a single-page destination specifically for the event. The percentage of visitors to our site whom Google Analytics classifies as using "Mobile" devices currently runs at 3.4% (up from 1.4% this time last year) but since we always see a spike in mobile traffic on an Open Day and during the days lea...

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