It’s Just Good Web Practice

Why do web designers do that? Well, there are a lot of reasons, but most of them are just accepted and never explained. Here’s a little look at why we do what we do in the web world.

UA HTML E-mail Templates

As part of our effort to use the UA Web Guide as a fluid and regularly updated toolkit, a new resource has been added:  HTML E-mail templates.  Because HTML email has become more important recently and with it comes more and more questions about how to develop and send these emails, we went ahead and [...]

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 [...]