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Jeff Stevens is the Assistant Web Manager for UF Health Web Services. He focuses on user experience, information architecture, content strategy, and usability.
Today we have released 3 new features for users of the Apollo theme: Footer Contact Information: You can now add a line of basic contact information to your websites footer (address, phone numbers). [see preview] To enable: visit Appearance / Theme Options / Footer In the text field labeled…
Due to recent improvements in the security of our content management systems, website content managers using Internet Explorer as their web browser (versions 8 or older) will see a warning appear under certain screens. The warning reads: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was…
As 2012 begins, the External Web Services team takes a look back at 2011 and what they consider to be the greatest trend or achievement in web development and communications for the year.
An upgrade to WordPress will be made later today. This new version will introduce a new way to upload files (drag and drop!), a new fly out menu that reduces clutter, and some performance and bug fixes. Watch a preview of the major changes: [flv height=”350″]http://videos.videopress.com/I7NAw9Zk/three-three-final_hd.mp4[/flv] Don’t Forget to Refresh…
A couple years ago at SXSW, I watched a great demo from a few of the guys at Google about how they won over internal audiences for new products. They demonstrated several user experiences and introduced me to the idea of rapid prototyping. image…
The new version of Adobe Media Encoder in CS5 is a great little tool for encoding video, especially if you are accustomed to switching frequently between After Effects and Premiere.
In Google Analytics and Social Interaction Part 1, we looked at methods of recording how often people on our sites share content from that site with their networks in social media. But how do we measure incoming traffic from these social networks?…
As a programmer, programming is fun to me. I'm sure a lot of other code monkeys feel the same way. It is satisfying to be presented a problem, and create a solution for it.
Size matters when you are creating web pages. The larger the file, the longer it takes for the page to download and become visible for your viewers.
As anyone who sits behind a computer screen for many hours each day knows, there are many repetitive tasks we perform that accumulate into substantial time sinks over the course of a work week. Things such as file/application browsing, window resizing, copying/pasting, etc can really slow us down.
