As mentioned in our announcement of UA Mobile Web, resources on how to get started designing and developing your own mobile site are now available on UA Web Guide. Currently, this documentation provides themes for the iPhone and Blackberry devices. As UA Mobile Web expands functionality to other devices, so too will Web Guide’s resources.
The [...]
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Developing for the mobile web is a mixed bag and with new phone technologies coming out frequently, it’s hard to stay ahead of the game. Unless you have an eclectic group of cell phones lying around, it’s hard to test your site against their browsers.
This is where emulators come into play.
By installing a few pieces [...]
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I’m sure most of you know by now that we rolled out a new UA Home Page yesterday at http://www.ua.edu. This new version refreshes the Home Page with a modernized look and feel, simplified navigation, updated functionality, and close integration with the new Touching Lives campaign. You’ll begin to see more about the latter as the fall [...]
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This is a quick tip for all those Dreamweaver users out there. If you don’t already know, you can preview your local pages in a browser by opening an HTML file and hitting F12.
Well, I always thought the file had to be open…until today.
If you want to preview a file without opening it, simply click [...]
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I’m sure you’re all familiar with the A-Z Site Index on UA Home (http://www.ua.edu/site.html), which contains an alphabetical listing of UA web sites. This list is intended to be a semi-comprehensive listing of all major web sites on the UA campus, in order to help guide visitors to the information they’re seeking. It has historically [...]
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In Web Communications, we are big proponents of adhering to Web Standards as we develop and manage web sites. This is an important area to be well-versed in for web designers, because web standards have evolved from being a grassroots effort into being a pretty commonly-accepted platform on which to build web sites. But what [...]
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OIT purchased the Analytics 360 webinar series from Higher Ed Experts. It’s a three-part series on measuring results from your online initiatives, both web and e-mail. I found it definitely worth the three hour time investment. Because of our purchase, anyone at UA can view the recorded webinars and download the associated materials until April 10. [...]
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I thought I would expound a little bit on the Flash detection we are using in the new UA Video Newsroom (and elsewhere). Andy mentioned it briefly, but I would like to explain in more detail why I went this route.
The previous method we were using was Adobe’s Flash Detection Kit. Up until [...]
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This week we’ve launched a major update to the UA Web Guide at http://webguide.ua.edu. While the Web Guide has previously been positioned as a standard-setting document for all University web sites, this update serves to present it as a practical toolkit for developing and managing web sites at UA. There are still minimum standards and [...]
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