Go forth and search!
Yes, we admit it. The search function on the website has never been anything to shout about. It was slow, it frequently returned broken links, it took ages to populate…
Posts Categorized: Content
Social sharing, live chat, go-lives – recent developments from the Web Team
We’ve been a busy bunch over the last few weeks/months/years. Paddy in particular has been doing lots of behind the scenes work on course pages and the course database, with…
Top Tip: Events expire!
When you create an event in T4, set an expiry date in the ‘Options’ tab, so it automatically disappears from the live page after the event. Even better, set…
Guest talk – Modern Web Design Trends 2016
Last week, myself, Anna and Katie attended a lunchtime talk from Marianne Kay (@marianne_ua), an Analyst at the Digital Clarity Group and part-time lecturer here at the University of Bradford,…
Making content awesome
Putting faces to so many names at our Web Community@Bradford: Putting the User First event was brilliant. Even better was seeing everyone enthusiastic about working together to improve the University’s…
Wood for the trees
With a website the size of ours, and the number of people contributing to it, there’s so much content being created and so much information available – but is anyone…
Mobile first? Not for me, it’s all about content (restive.js)
A few years a go I was working on a project to make our Undergraduate website responsive when the term was still in its infancy. It was used a lot…
The big Study at Bradford project comes to fruition
The Web Team’s had a busy time recently doing a refresh of the whole Study at Bradford section – this is the part of the website where we show prospective…
Students – they’re why we’re here
The best part of my job is probably getting out and meeting the students. When you think of a university, you probably conjure up images of lecture theatres, seminar rooms…
Eyes right
In my previous life on the BBC News website, not a word went live without at least a second pair of eyes taking a look. Yes, even with breaking news…
Career Explorer Widget – helping our prospective and current students
The University Web Team has been working with Alan Paull Services on a pilot of their Career Explorer widget – a tool that sits on a webpage and links out…
‘Contact us’ spruce up
Updating and improving our ‘Contact and Find Us‘ section has been a satisfying little task, mainly because I got to play with Google maps. We haven’t made any major changes, just…