Social Networking at UA

In case you missed it, we recently launched official UA Facebook and YouTube channels to dip our toes into the waters of social networking.  A few notes about this process:
Why Facebook and YouTube?  We strategically selected Facebook and YouTube for our official channels because they are the most popular social networking sites with our targeted [...]

Modify Initial View on PDF File

I don’t do a whole lot with Adobe Acrobat Professional as far as using advanced features to manipulate PDFs. However, one task I’ve had to do a few times is change the initial view of a document – in some cases to set the magnification to a certain percentage when the file is first viewed, [...]

FREE Writing for the Web webcast

OIT has purchased a link to the Writing Right for the Web webcast from Academic Impressions. This will take place from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14. We would like to invite other campus web people, particularly content writers and editors, to participate for free.  We will be viewing the webcast in A232 Gordon Palmer [...]

Design decisions in Undergraduate Admissions website redesign

Back in August, we launched a redesign of the Undergraduate Admissions suite of websites, which includes the following sites:

Undergraduate Admissions
Undergraduate Scholarships
Bama Bound Orientation
Financial Aid

Each of these sites plays an important role in recruiting prospective students and helping those who decide to attend UA through the admissions and enrollment process. While each site has a [...]