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Jeffrey Stevens

Jeff Stevens is the Assistant Web Manager for UF Health Web Services. He focuses on user experience, information architecture, content strategy, and usability.

WP Security Talk: Chris Weigman

UF Health Web Services invited WP security expert Chris Weigman to the University of Florida campus to discuss WordPress security on October 27 , 2015. Video Watch the recording of the event About Chris Chris Weigman is a Senior Web Engineer for 10up and has been working on…

Writing a Better Newsletter Subject Line

Summary: Focus on the first 40 characters. Descriptive and well-written subject lines allow recipients to make an informed decision to get more details or move on.

WordPress 3.8 Upgrade Coming Soon

In preparation for our upgrade to WordPress 3.8 (coming in the next few weeks… additional email to follow), take a look at the following Lynda.com tutorial on some of the new changes. The most dramatic change is an entirely new look for the dashboard area of the website. The functionality…

Mobile Upgrades Coming Soon

Coming Thursday, October 24, a new theme enhancement will transform your website to work seamlessly on smaller mobile devices. Almost 20% of traffic to UF Health websites comes from mobile devices, and this amount is rapidly increasing. As more of our audience moves to using the web on their handheld…

Web Services Introduces Usability Testing Services

Web Services is working on making your websites better, faster, and stronger with targeted research, studies, and metrics. You might remember Steve Austin, astronaut. He was the one of the best… and then he got even better, thanks to the miracle of bionics. Usability Testing is the web…

Parallax.JS

Parallax effect overload! Mobile friendly…

Anchors Aweigh!

When building a very lengthy web page, Anchor Links provide an easy method for building internal links within the page to allow a user to ‘jump’ to a particular section of content on the page. An anchor link creates a named link on a page, called an anchor, that one…

Forms, Quizzes and Surveys

If you’ve ever had to build a web form on the Apollo template, then you are familiar with our forms plug-in, Gravity Forms. We’ve been impressed with Gravity Form’s ease-of-use and intuitive design, and it has proved to be a tremendous asset for our organization. Web Services has just…