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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.

Creating a Custom Facebook Page

As marketers and communicators, we go to where the audiences are online to deliver and receive messages. Today, that is Facebook. With over 500 million users and a daily usage that surpasses that of Google, using Facebook as a communications channel by any large business or institution…

Website Maintenance at 5pm

Tonight we will be enhancing the performance and reliability of the back-end database powering your website. This means that website content managers will be unable to update their websites tonight (Wednesday December 7) from 5pm until tomorrow morning at 8am (Thursday  December 8). This maintenance will not effect visitors to…

Popping the Filter Bubble

One of the biggest changes in Search Engines in 2011 is the continually tweaking of search algorithms to create relevance and personalization for their users. But does this narrow our world view? And what does this mean for optimizing your web site? The world wide web…

New Sitemap Feature Enabled

A new link titled “Sitemap” can now be found in your website’s footer. This will link users to a page displaying a simple listing of every visible page on your website (take a look at our sitemap for an example). There is nothing you have to do to turn…

The Death of Mobile Flash

Apple’s infamous decision to block Flash from running on its mobile devices was a prophetic one.  Adobe is halting all development of the mobile Flash player plugin and will now focus on delivering tools for developing in the mobile market with web standards such as HTML5.  Although it seems…

The Death of Mobile Flash

Apple’s infamous decision to block Flash from running on its mobile devices was a prophetic one.  Adobe is halting all development of the mobile Flash player plugin and will now focus on delivering tools for developing in the mobile market with web standards such as HTML5.  Although it seems…

Google Analytics and Social Interaction Part 1:

Google Analytics now provides a set of reports for tracking social interaction with a website’s content. This new metric will measure how often users use social share buttons – for example, a Facebook Like, and Google +1, a LinkedIn share, or a tweet. This information can be used to…

Visualizing Data with Google Charts

If you can type a URL in your browser, you can create a quick chart with the help of Google. Just when you thought Google had made your life easy enough, you stumble upon Google Charts. Never again will you draw a Venn Diagram by hand. Plotting out…