While others were having some good April’s Fool fun with their homepage, the University of Notre Dame quietly launched a revolutionary homepage yesterday afternoon. This could well be the Holy Grail of higher ed website design: a web design based on the mobile first approach that serves content on any devices using a combo of […]
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Responsive Web Design in #highered: eduStyle Awards founder on converting your website to RWD
I’ve just completed my article about responsive design in higher education. It will be published in University Business in a couple of months (February 2012 issue). I did a few extensive interviews with early adopters as part of my research for this piece. As usual, I could only use a fraction of what I found. […]
Top (First) Responsive Websites in #highered
How do you like your site? Web? Mobile? How about Responsive? As my cutting-edge technically-oriented readers already know (but I love you the same even if you don’t yet ;0), Responsive Web Design wasn’t exactly born yesterday. The term was coined in an article written by Ethan Marcotte and published in May 2010 on A […]
Web Accessibility for #highered: Required, Not Optional
My latest University Business column is now available in the September issue as well as online (on the new UB website powered by Drupal!): “Web Accessibility: Required, Not Optional” In this column, I explain why you should focus on web accessibility ASAP. Not just because it’s the right thing to do for your users with […]
Want to learn how to create better, viral, and ADA-compliant web videos? Register by August 26 for Online Videos 360 Webinars
If you read this blog, there is no doubt you know how important online videos have become in the higher ed marketing and communication mix. With YouTube, iTunes and others, your target audiences have come to expect to be able to watch news and interesting things happening at your institution. Anybody can now upload a […]
Live From HighEdWebDev06: How to Lower Costs and Increase Accessibility with Web Standards
Bryan Hantman of University of Maryland presented yesterdat a session at HighEdWebDev in Rochester titled “Setting the Standards: How Web Standards Lower Costs & Increase Accessibility.†Dimitri Glazkov, one of the HighEdWebDev guest bloggers, enjoyed this presentation a lot. This is Dimitri’s second post. Bryan Hantman of University of Maryland gave a good talk on […]
Live from HighEdWebDev 2005 in Rochester: How to improve web accessibility with a content management system (CMS)
Adam Finlayson from Northwestern University presented yesterday an interesting session at HighEdWebDev05 titled “Improving Accessibility with a Content Management System (CMS).” After attending this session, Brian Phelps, who agreed to be our very-own correspondent at the conference, filed the following report. “There are two barriers to improving Web accessibility: learning the techniques and implementing them. […]
Live from HighEdWebDev 2005 in Rochester: How to rebuild your higher ed website with XHTML and CSS to comply with Web standards
Daniel M. Frommelt from The University of Wisconsin – Platteville shared his experience in converting his university website to web standards and gave a few very good tips on how to proceed in a session held yesterday at HighEdWebDev05 and titled “Conversion to Web Standards: Tips, Tricks, and Methods.” After attending this session, Brian Phelps, […]
Live from HighEdWebDev 2005 in Rochester: How to comply with Section 508 by building accessibility into the workflow
Yesterday at HighEdWebDev 05 in Rochester, Richard Ells from The University of Washington offered interesting insights about web accessibility for higher ed websites and shared his experience on integrating the famous Section 508 requirements and the W3 standards into website management workflow in a session titled “Building Accessibility Into The Workflow”. After attending this session, […]
Does your college/university website comply with the ADA?
Is it accessible to students, faculty or staff with disabilities? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 spelled out some specific requirements for higher education institutions. As quoted in a pamphlet about Auxiliary Aids and Services for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities from the US Department of Education, section […]
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