Archive for the ‘University Wide’ Category
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Since I received positive feedback on Part 1 of this soon-to-be series—and there’s certainly more of these examples to go around—here’s Part 2. “Indispensable,” not “Indispensible” This one stumps me occasionally as well. Somehow, remembering that there’s a “sable” in “indispensable” helps. “Continual” vs. “Continuous” The first means something that last but with breaks or pauses. [...]
Tags: in order to, misused and abused phrases, misused and abused words, misused phrases, misused words
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job is analyzing our site’s analytics—and tweaking our site based on informed decision making. With analytics on your side, it’s exactly the ammunition you need when people come to you and say that they don’t think they have an effective site or something’s not being viewed enough [...]
Tags: analytics, event tracking, google analytics, google tracking, site analytics, web analytics
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Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Psst, you there. Yeah, you. I’d like to share a secret with you: most websites can’t be built in 1-2 days or even 1-2 weeks, given all the other projects that a typical Web team is working on. Not only that, but there’s a lot of strategizing behind the scenes that many don’t see. In [...]
Tags: building a website, creating websites, how long does it take to build a website, Web content, Web content practices
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
In an earlier post, I touched on the subject of online accessibility and why we should all strive for it. “But achieving online accessibility is so hard!,” you say. Well, like just about everything in life, nothing is so black and white. Here are some easy ways to achieve online accessibility. While they won’t provide [...]
Tags: alt text, googlebot, online accessibility, people with disabilities, web accessiblity
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Monday, May 28th, 2012
What does it mean to have a site that is online or Web accessible? After all, if people can connect to a Web site, isn’t that all there is to it? It’s not that simple. Here are two definitions of Web or online accessibility (both terms can be used interchangeably): “Web accessibility means that people [...]
Tags: american with disabilities act, online accessibility, section 504, section 508, WAI, WAVE, web accessibility
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
I’ve created a series of short video tutorials demonstrating basic skills utilized when editing your website using the CMS. More will be added in the future, but for now take a peek because these topics will probably be covered on the CMS Skills Test. How to get content from a Content Block into a Page [...]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
…It’s a lot of work. Sometimes it’s a lot of tedious work. But there is something special about having a large part of the university in lock-step working together to make this happen. It’s a testimony to the dedication of each individual and I can’t thank everyone on the IM team and throughout YU enough for their hard work and for keeping us above water.
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
In my Digital Marketing class last Spring, we were asked to select three emerging technologies that we thought would grow significantly in the next two years. It’s hard to believe how quaint my predictions now seem after only one year! For the record, my selections: (and remember, this was way back in 2010) __________ Touch [...]
Tags: cloud computing, mobile, technological trends, touch technology
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
A colleague recently shared an article about whether or not it is correct to use two spaces after a period. (In case you’re not sure, the answer is no!) Being aware of this and other typographic rules will lend professional polish to your published work, both online and in print. Typographers live by the rules—but [...]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
In case you’ve been living in a cave, under a rock with no wi-fi I want to tell you about Dreidelpalooza. This was an incredible event to support the Students Helping Students initiative. The goal was to break the Guinness World Record for most dreidels spun at one time (541). At 6:30 doors opened in [...]
Tags: chanukah, student event
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