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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

An Underrated Feature: Why You Should Use Table of Contents

Did you know that if you are creating a page or post in CuTheme or CMS, you can add a table of contents to your content? Well, you can! The Table of Contents block in CuTheme and the “Enable Table of Contents” button in CMS software allow readers to navigate through the headings and... More

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Everything in Its Place: How to Use Categories to Organize your Website

If you’re keeping up with Web Services, you might know that we wrote an article about our virtual spring cleaning last month. A vital part of this clean-up was using tags and categories. Continuing the analogy of spring cleaning, categories and tags are like your bookshelves, cupboards, and other storage. Leaving your things piled... More

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Things we’ve been working on – Sprint #24 update

In Web Services, we work in 3-week sprints. We plan what we need to work on over this time. Then we investigate, code, write, review, and test in order to move our projects forward. This way of working comes from a philosophy called Agile, which you can learn more about in this post:  How... More

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Meet Our People: Isabella

Every month we are profiling one of the Web Services Department’s team members. This month we hear about Isabella, who is a co-op student with Web Services. How did you enter this career? As a combined Journalism and Communication and Media Studies student, I was interested in this co-op position because I wanted to... More

Monday, May 16, 2022

Your Title is Vital: Writing Compelling Post Titles

When you see a post in a news listing or newsletter, you usually make a snap decision about whether or not you will read it based on three elements. These are: The thumbnail The preview of the text The title If your goal is getting people to open and read your content, then these... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Web Writing Crash Course: 5. Review Your Post

Welcome back to the Web Writing Crash Course series! At this point, you may be wondering: “I have applied all the tips, but how can I be sure that my web post is scannable, accessible, and SEO-friendly enough?” We heard you, and we have gathered some (more) tips and tools to help you review... More

Monday, May 9, 2022

Clear Caches Ahead, or, “Why Aren’t My Changes Showing Up???”

If you’re an early user of CuTheme, or just someone who happens to be unlucky when it comes to technology cooperating, you’ve likely been subject to at least one panicked moment caused by your cache. Picture this: you spend valuable time making changes to your page, hit “update”, and go to the front end... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

Spring Cleaning: The Virtual Version

Time to get out the old virtual feather duster and digital mop! With exams and finals vanquished for yet another term, it’s a great time to review your website, clean up old posts, and start the summer with refreshed content. Out With the Old Web Services conducted our own spring cleaning last month and... More

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Things we’ve been working on – Sprint #23 update

We work in 3-week sprints. Basically, that means that we make a specific plan for what we will do over this period for each of our current projects. This includes, what we need to investigate, code, write, review, and test in order to move things forward. This way of working comes from a philosophy... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Let Me In!!! : Getting Access to Google Analytics

When we set up your site, we enabled Google Analytics to track site activity, meaning that there exists data on your website’s performance from when it was just a baby website. You’re welcome. But knowing that the data exists is only half the battle. Luckily, we’ve made the other half – accessing the data... More

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