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 thought that WebTide might be more relevant and useful if it were manifested as a blog that allowed anyone in the group to contribute their ideas, questions, breakthroughs, or innovations with the rest of the community. So today, we are relaunching WebTide as the official blog community for UA web developers.
We hope as many people as possible will contribute to this blog to make it a richer, more meaningful experience for all of us. We elected to use WordPress to publish the blog to make it as simple as possible for many different people to contribute, and to simplify the blog’s management. If you have innovative ideas, useful experiences, or just thoughts or questions you’d like to share with the group, this is your chance. Or maybe you’ve just come across a helpful article or resource while surfing, and you want to share it with the group for reference or discussion. If you’d like to contribute to WebTide, please send an email to webmaster@ur.ua.edu and we’ll get you started right away.
We in Web Communications are committed to maintaining the blog and making regular contributions going forward. Please note that this is a publicly-available web site, so contributions must be appropriately representative of our institution. But this is also an opportunity to share the great work and innovation being fostered on the UA campus with the public, in addition to becoming a useful resource for all on-campus web designers. We also hope to begin hosting semi-regular meetings to network with each other and learn from each other as well.
We’ll begin contributing regularly to this blog very soon, so bookmark it, and more importantly - join us as a contributor!
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This is a good move for webtide. I’m sure every developer at the UA runs into similar issues, either UA specific or just general web development. This is going to be both a great sounding board for asking questions and a good archive for searching topics.
Let the posting begin.
Agreed. I also think this will be a good place to share articles on web design and standards.