UA.edu receives high praise from EDU Checkup

I wanted to share the following independent review of UA.edu, which was recently conducted by EDU Checkup, a higher education blog and review site. The review was very positive – in fact the reviewer (Nick DeNardis) tweeted that UA.edu is “one of the highest scoring sites on @educheckup”, and called it “rock star work” (http://twitter.com/nickdenardis/status/5894882926).
Overall, [...]

Web Standards self-study curriculum

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 [...]

UA Web Guide revised

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 [...]

Zebra Striping Experiement Results

A List Apart has just posted a pretty interesting article on zebra striping and its effectiveness among users. A study was setup to test whether or not striping the rows of tables was as really useful as we make it out to be. Considering that I used ALA’s previous article on zebra striping [...]

Web Design Survey results are in

Back in April, I participated in a survey conducted by A List Apart.  The main purpose of the questionnaire was to collect information on aspects of web design jobs such as salary, education, type of organization, benefits, and even perceived biases.  To date, no one has ever conducted this kind of research on the web [...]

A collection of details

This is an excerpt from a short, interesting post on 37 Signals that Brian passed on to me a while back (thanks Brian).  It doesn’t sound particularly important at face value, but when you think about this philosophy as applied to iterative design, it makes a lot of sense.
“This is all your app is: a [...]