Why we need standards support in HTML email

If you have ever tried to code a standards compliant HTML email with CSS, you quickly realize how infuriatingly frustrating it can be. Your design that looks great in Outlook 2003 may render completely different in Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and even Bamamail—all at the same time. How do you design for four or [...]

New UA Online Giving Form (action required)

I’ve already contacted many of you individually about this, but I wanted to make sure it was out there for everyone in case I missed an area that needs this information.
We’ve been working on upgrading the UA Online Giving form to get it ready for integration with the UA credit card gateway, and yesterday the [...]

Adobe MAX 2007 North America Chicago, USA, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3

Hi guys,
I was just wanted let you guys know about ADOBE MAX 2007 if you weren’t already aware. (Is anyone else in the group attending?) It promises to be a great event. A chance to get to meet and mingle with many of the leading users and developers of the tools that make our everyday [...]

Google online resource scheduler

The UA Business School is currently in the process of migrating all our email and calendaring from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. This has been done by other schools and organizations, but as far as I know, no other subset of the UA has done this yet (please correct me on this if I’m [...]

Need a calendar? Something to keep in mind…

I’ve mentioned this via the listserve before, but it bears repeating to make sure everyone knows you have this option.  Our new Crimson Calendar (http://events.ua.edu), which was relaunched in February, has the ability to house unlimited individual calendars for colleges, divisions, departments, etc.  We launched with the base five calendars which all feed into the [...]

Spruce up your site, make 404 errors pretty

This may go without saying to most of you, but an end user probably has no idea what “Error 404″ means. An easy way to help a user along when he hits a bad link is to customize your error pages, the most common of which is the “Page Not Found”, error 404 page.
All [...]

Adding Google Maps to your site

While redesigning the Career Center website, I wanted to combine my Directions and Contact page into one. This would simultaneously simplify the user interface and reduce the amount of content on the site. One new feature that I wanted to integrate was an interactive Google Maps. It is relatively easy adding the [...]

What topics do you want to see?

Hey everybody, as we’re all admiring the great tool Andy and his team have provided, let’s start this thing off with a community question:
What topics would you most like to see discussed here?
Leave your answers in the comments of this post.

Good article on the CSS float property

Earlier this year, Digital Web Magazine started a column called Web Design 101.  The series is written in a way that is helpful for those who are just getting started but also useful as a reference and review for more experienced designers. 
The most recent article in this series discusses the float property, which I have always [...]

WebTide redefined as blog community

The University of Alabama’s Web Communications group has long maintained a listserve for “WebTide”, which has served as an informal grouping of UA’s web designers and developers on campus.  The list has historically been used to announce new rollouts and resources, encourage feedback, share issues and seek solutions.
With the advent of ‘Web 2.0′ and the community-based web movement, we [...]