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Thursday, December 5, 2019

CU Theme Update

As you know, we've been working on developing a new theme for our 550 websites.  If this is news to you, I encourage you to read  A New theme for Carleton Websites is Coming well as our last CU Theme Progress Report. As announced at our last Coffee Break, we are aiming to begin roll... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

AODA and Digital Accessibility

Our public websites and its contents must meet WCAG 2.0 AA by January 2021 as outlined in the Accessibility Standard for Information and Communications. WCAG 2.0 is an internationally accepted standard for web accessibility developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It defines three levels of compliance - A, AA and AAA. Level A equates... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Are stock photos on your Christmas wish list?!

If the answer is yes ..... Web Services has you covered! We are offering our clients the opportunity to get some high quality, stock photos for their web sites. These are great for things such as banners and thumbnails. We currently has a subscription to Shutterstock. If you would like us to download images... More

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Meet Our People: Marcelo

How did you enter this career? Back in 1995, I was an Electrical Engineer Student and had my first contact with the internet at the university lab. I'm a curious person, so I started to wonder how these "websites" are made and a couple weeks later I built my first GeoCities hosted website using... More

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Coffee Break Recap – October 2019

If you missed this week's coffee break, no need to worry! Here's a quick recap for you. Mary Kathryn started off by introducing our team. We have grown over the years to a team of 8. If you don't know us all, find out the juicy details here. What We've Been Up To We... More

Thursday, October 10, 2019

TEN MILLION DOLLARS

Great news everyone - Your ecommerce pages are becoming even more secure! As you know, Web Services in ITS offers the CU Ecommerce Service to those of you on campus who need to take money for events and services. We are pleased to announce that in September we transacted our 10,000,000th dollar! We are... More

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

CU Theme Progress Report

As many of you have heard, we are working on developing a new theme for our WordPress websites. About the New Theme Right now we manage, basically, two themes: CMS (powering roughly 500 websites) and Framework (powering about 40 sites). When we talk about the new theme (we’re calling it CU Theme) what we’re... More

Monday, September 16, 2019

Meet our People: Troy

How did you enter this career? About 13-14 year ago, during the last couple of years in my previous job as a Graphic Designer, I came to the realization that the print was a quickly dying medium. If I wanted to continue to evolve as a professional, I needed to transition into something else... More

Monday, September 9, 2019

How to do a Website Review

A website review is a way to measure how your website is doing against certain parameters. It allows you to make informed decisions about what to change (or not to!) It is a great tool to help clean up and reorganize your website. A review of your site can: Improve SEO (search engine optimization)... More

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

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