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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Making Accessibility Accessible

Great news everyone! In recent history, Web Services has been delivering training around accessibility for the web in our Writing for Web Accessibility workshops. Now we have moved a set of the materials upon which we base our workshops into our website. So now you can learn even more about how to present your web... More

Monday, August 12, 2019

A New Theme for Carleton Websites is Coming

As many of you have heard, we are working on developing a new theme for our WordPress websites.  We’re calling it… CU Theme.Very creative, we know.Right now we manage, basically, two themes: CMS (powering roughly 500 websites) and Framework (powering about 40 sites).  We also manage internal sites, and a handful of custom sites (Intranet, Go... More

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Meet our People: MK

Every month we are profiling one of the Web Services Department's team members. This month we hear about Mary Kathryn Roberts who is (Acting) Manager of Web Services. How did you enter this career? I moved to Ottawa to pursue a degree in theatre and ended up switching to communications. I then did a... More

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

5 Tips for Creating an Awesome Newsletter

Sending email newsletters can be a great way to connect with your audience. In this post, find some best practices to help you create a great newsletter! 1. Define your objective. What do you want your newsletter to do? Having a clear purpose: Helps you streamline your newsletter content Gives people a reason to subscribe... More

Friday, July 12, 2019

Privacy Plugins I Love

Modern browsers like Chrome and Firefox offer an innumerable collection of extensions and plugins that expand and customize the functionality of your browser. I would like to share with you a few of the plugins that I find to be most valuable. Both Firefox and Chrome links are included to each plugin. uBlock Origin... More

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Release Notes for Thursday, 4th July, 2019

The following is a list of updates that were completed today. To learn more about interpreting release notes, please read this fascinating article on the subject. -------------------- # Carleton CMS ## Added - WPISSO-4: Setup email that will go to ISSO after submission - WSKS-455: Check form total on submission ## Changed - WSKS-434:... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Meet our People: Mike

How did you enter this career? Eons ago, when people still connected to the internet like this, I started a Co-Op position at a local internet provider doing technical support. I worked weekends, and it wasn’t very busy. Once I got tired of playing Quake, I decided I should probably make use of the... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Writing for the Web: Workshop Recap

Thanks to everyone who attend our Writing for the Web Workshop in June! Here's a quick recap of what we covered. Writing for the web is all about making your web pages scannable, accessible and searchable: Scannable People rarely read web pages word for word. Instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words... More

Monday, June 17, 2019

Carleton Has a New Home Page

Carleton’s new home page is live after a three-week preview. Carleton.ca is a critical tool for recruiting top students, faculty and staff members. It plays a central role in enhancing the university’s reputation and developing community partnerships of all kinds. After four years, the home page has been given a fresh new look for... More

Friday, June 14, 2019

Our 300th News Post!

Amazing but true: Web Services has published 300 posts to its website on all kinds of topics from Women in IT to our award-winning ways in the past decade. On average we have produced one new story every 7 working days since we started down this road. As it is summer and summer is... More

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