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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Upgrade Your Web Skills with LinkedIn Learning

Did you know that all Carleton staff and faculty have access to LinkedIn learning? LinkedIn Learning offers on-demand, online courses in a wide range of topics, including some that may help you in your web content management tasks! A few of our co-op students have taught themselves Google Analytics by going through the lessons... More

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Web Support for Virtual Graduation

If you will be hosting, planning, or helping your department with a virtual graduation celebration, or are responsible for sharing convocation info on your departmental website - we can help! Website Support In particular (and no surprise here!) we would like to help you prepare a special web page to celebrate your graduates. And... More

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Meet Our People: Ishdeep

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

When to delete a form

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

Friday, March 19, 2021

CAPTCHAing the moment with Forms

Occasionally, we come under attack. For once, it's not for our dress sense. Instead, it's a malicious cyber-attack. This occurs a few times every year: a malevolent entity out there (in the form of a bot) finds a form on a Carleton website and bombards that form with multiple submissions. In the latest attack,... More

Monday, March 8, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 1. Linked image missing alternative text

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

Monday, March 8, 2021

What are the top five accessibility issues?

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

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Get an Overview of Your Website’s Performance Using Analytics

If you have ever jumped into Google Analytics, keen to find out how your website is doing, you may have discovered that it can be overwhelming....! Before falling down the rabbit hole, we'd like to guide you through finding a few simple stats that can give you a good overview of traffic and what... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Everything is going to be AA-Okay

Everything is going to be okay. While we can't say this with any great accuracy over the state of the world, we can address some fears a bit closer to home. As the passenger liner of 2020 plows into the iceberg of 2021, we have all been looking forward to the New Year. However,... More

Monday, January 11, 2021

Tips & Tricks: Image Gallery

This week's tip is all about Image Galleries! Everyone knows you can add images to web pages, but did you know you can add an Image Gallery with a built-in image slideshow feature? Keep reading to learn more about this awesome feature available right now for CMS sites! Using an Image Gallery to Display... More

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