Our Favorite Takeaways From HEW’24

Our annual trek back to HighEdWeb is when we can spend the most time living one of our core values – Learn, Lead and Share: Be a student AND an expert. Feed your brain, put it in action, and share what you’ve learned. It always comes back.  In between preparing for our own sessions, our […]

Teaching Web Teams to Speak Enrollment

David Poteet and Robynne Lofton are presenting Teaching Web Teams to Speak Enrollment at HighEdWeb 2024 in Albuquerque, NM. Description of the presentation: You know prospective students are the #1 audience for your website. But most marcom and web teams don’t speak “enrollment.” They’ve heard the terms, but they haven’t lived them. When enrollment leaders […]

Circle of Excellence Award for OSU

Oklahoma State University’s website relaunch represents the 1st phase of an initiative to break down silos. OSU has a BIG personality (think bright orange, cowboy hats, and the friendliest place you’ll ever go), and the website needed to better represent that on-campus experience. Learn more about the awardCheck out the new website

Infinite Scroll: A Bad Idea for Usability and Accessibility

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Though a common interaction on the web, infinite scroll causes problems for accessibility, usability, and performance. The cost to work around them is usually not worth the tradeoffs, and in the end, it can have a negative impact on the user experience.

What Studying the Humanities Taught Me About Software Development

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Back in my computer science days, I took a programming class where the professor decided to assign us a project to show us how real-world programming gets done (or ought to get done). We discussed the problem we were trying to solve in extreme detail The professor dictated the precise toolset we were supposed to […]

Defeating the Monsters of Web Design

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Maybe you remember the Monsters of Web Design? They’re the gnarly issues that menace your website, threatening to wreak havoc on your site (and your sanity). They’re back!

Layering Content

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Adapting content for interactive reading on the web is about finding balance.

Google Tag Manager 101: The Basics

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You’re probably hearing a lot about Google Tag Manager, but do you understand exactly what it is and why to use it? If not, read on!