Although no one knows exactly what lies ahead in the area of web design and development, it’s a safe bet to assume 2013 will continue to be a year of rapid change. I’ve compiled several predictions in the following post. Agree or disagree with any of these thoughts? Add your input and ideas to the comment thread! Continue reading
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A key objective for UNC Webmasters is to “save the University money and resources through innovation, leveraging existing technologies, harnessing our own talent and increasing efficiencies.” We thought it would make sense to start compiling a list of free services and resources that would appeal to campus webmasters. If you know of any additional resources, or need to clarify an item on the list below, please add a comment. Enjoy!
File space
Web and Email
Event Registration
Surveys
Learning Management and Collaboration
Training and Labs
It seems like QR codes are everywhere now. Businesses, non-profits, etc. are using the technology in some really creative ways. What about Higher Ed?
- Are you aware of any interesting QR code campaigns on campus?
- How are other universities using QR codes to promote services and resources?
- How can this technology be used in creative ways here at UNC?
Let us know by adding a comment to this post!
– Billy
More often than not, we run into situations where we need to authenticate users against the UNC Onyen system. Whether it be a simple application used on an internal department network, or a very complex system that is publicly available. Onyen authentication solves the need to lock out the rest of the world but does not [easily] allow you to lock out everyone except a select number of individuals. There are ways to check if the user is part of a specific department or has a particular job function but that may be too broad for some applications.
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We have all seen them, those empty random pages that pop up when you accidentally dived into the unknown realms of a particular website – a 404 page. No one ever likes seeing these pages. To see a 404 page often means that something you were looking for is either outdated, no longer exists or resides on a page to which the link is somehow broken. What a 404 page amounts to for you, the website visitor, is equivalent to a hill of beans.
That is, up until now. Some people are finding useful and creative ways of taking your journey to the lost outer realms of their website and turning it into a creative and effective tool for helping you find your way back to where you started, or at least back to content relevant to your search. Take a look at the examples provided by Smashing Magazine and others, on creative and fun ways to take what is lost and turn it into what is found.
- Smashing Magazine / “Wanted: Your 404 Error Pages” / July 25th, 2007 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/25/wanted-your-404-error-pages/
- Smashing Magazine / “404 Error Pages Reloaded” / August 17th, 2007 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/17/404-error-pages-reloaded/
More Articles on 40 pages
- Martin Korner / “Error 404 – Page Found!” / August 28th, 2007
- WordPress.org – “Creating an Error 404 Page“
- fiLi’s Tech / “WordPress : Turning 404 not found random visitors to blog readers” / August 11th, 2007
- Blogtrepreneur.com / “Creating Effective 404 Error Pages for WordPress” / August 28th, 2007
Special thanks to Billy for bringing this up in the webmaster’s meeting on Thursday. It reminded me that I read the Smashing Magazine articles about a week ago and that they might be useful to some of you.