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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 4. Missing or uninformative page title

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

Friday, October 8, 2021

Website support for Fall 2021 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! And we have some ideas … Request the Virtual Graduation Web Template In particular (and no surprise here!) we would like to help you... More

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Web Support for Fall 2021 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

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Carleton’s Shiny New Logo now Live on our Websites!

You may have heard that Carleton went through an extensive rebranding process. The aim was to create a strong and consistent brand to help evolve our profile and reputation. One of the key components to our visual identity is our university logo and it has gotten a facelift! Some of you may have been... More

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

How to Crop/Resize Images

Have you ever tried to add an image or custom thumbnail to the media library but the dimensions were not compatible? Pixlr is a great website to find tons of free stock images you can use on your website. Not only that, but you can resize images right then and there before saving them... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Meet Our People: Reyna

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

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Get added to Google Analytics with your Carleton email address

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google to report and track website traffic. Google's verification processes and security measures inhibit access from multiple locations using the same generic email account. The security measures notice multiple IP addresses and can lock out some members from accessing the analytics services.... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 3. Empty Links

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

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Global Accessibility Day

It's Global Accessibility Day and our friends at the READ Institute have a variety of resources and events to check out. Some upcoming events to take note of are: Virtual Open House from May 25th to 28th City of Ottawa CAN Collaboration Announcement on May 27th The 6th annual ENABLE Ottawa event on June... More

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Things You’ll Love About CuTheme

Here in Web Services, a lot of work is going into the moving our 660+ websites to the new cuTheme template. This new template comes with many changes to the layout on both the frontend (new content blocks! new functionality!) and backend (hello new WordPress Gutenberg editor) of our websites. We understand that change... More

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