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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The cuTheme pilot is currently underway! This is the biggest change to Carleton's web infrastructure since the initial adoption of Wordpress. cuTheme will help modernize Carleton's web presence, providing a more customized web experience for faculties and departments across campus. It will also bring a simpler and more streamlined backend... More
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Google Analytics is a super useful tool, but it can be overwhelming. By taking the time to set up some basic recurring reports, you'll be able to easily get useful info on your web traffic and have it emailed right to you. A recurring report lets you: Choose exactly what you want to see... More
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
What it means A page has no page name attributed to it. It is literally blank. Why it matters A page title is important for several reasons. It describes the content or purpose of a page (E.g., Contact ITS, List of Faculty and Staff, Apply to Carleton University.) This is not only useful in... More
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Every month we are profiling one of the Web Services Department's team members. This month we hear about Reyna who is a co-op student with Web Services. How did you enter this career? I recently completed my third year of Communication and Media Studies here at Carleton. When I was applying to University... More
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Empty links What it means A link contains no text. It's emptier than a movie theatre during lockdown. It is invisible to people viewing the page via eyesight (with or without corrective lenses) so it matters little to them - except that the link might be important and it is not going to receive... More
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Every month we are profiling one of the Web Services Department's team members. This month we hear about Dahlia who is a co-op student with Web Services. How did you enter this career? It is strange coming from an Environmental Studies and Geography background to find a job in Communications and Web Services at... More
Here at Carleton, accessibility is a priority, both on campus and on the web. As Thursday, 21st May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we thought we would bring you a brief overview of web accessibility as well as resources that will guide you through your web accessibility journey. Accessibility Overview The web offers unprecedented... More
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Empty heading What It Means A heading that contains no content. How do these empty headings occur? It is the easiest thing to accidentally create one: you insert a heading in one of your pages. However, then you decide to delete it, but you do so by only deleting the text. The HTML tag... More
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Each month we are profiling one of our Web Services team members. This month we hear all about Ishdeep! How did you enter this career? My story begins from the early high school days. Coding was something that came naturally to me that I can relate to. We input something, some processing happens, and... More
Friday, March 19, 2021
In our latest Pulitzer-prize winning article, we outlined the need to add CAPTCHA fields to your forms as soon as possible. We mentioned how to request that CAPTCHA be switched on for your website, and how to add CAPTCHA to your forms. When it comes to adding the CAPTCHA field to your forms, the... More
Monday, March 8, 2021
Over the next few weeks, we are going to take a look at the top five accessibility issues discovered on Carleton websites by our scanning tools. We will also look at the top five issues we discovered by doing a visual check on sites. The first item is: Linked image missing alternative text What... More
The new year has brought all kinds of excitement about accessibility. January marked the latest standard in AODA coming into operation. Because of this, and because the web community at Carleton is committed to making their websites as accessible as possible, many people are asking Web Services to run accessibility assessments of their websites.... More
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