How to refine a search in just one phrase
Our website has tens of thousands of web pages. Searches must return meaningful results for our audiences to find the right information. Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a practice aimed at enhancing a website’s visibility and ranking on search engine…
Integrating job adverts with our website
Opportunity In late 2023, the People Directorate approached Web Services about listing job vacancies. Putting jobs back on the website would make it easier for people to find and share that information. Web Services has a desire to signal-boost the…
Reducing the carbon impact of University websites
The University of Dundee is committed to reducing all carbon emissions to a net zero position by 2045. That’s the best part of 20 years away depending on when you start counting. However, with the most difficult part of that…
Putting student voices at the heart of the University website
This week we’re proud to launch the new Student Voices web pages. This marks the end of the Student Blog WordPress website that was launched back in 2012. Content from the blog has been migrated into a new section within…
Why we don’t use Word document forms
Word document forms are unable to meet our legal accessibility requirements.
User testing the PhD webpages
One of our current projects is to create a smoother and more streamlined user journey for prospective students who are researching, deciding on, and applying for, PhD opportunities. Ultimately, this should contribute to an increase in high quality PhD applications…
Auditing and improving guide content
Over the last month, Jonathan from the Web Services team has carried out an audit of guide pages on the University website. It’s been an incredibly useful exercise, not least because it’s made me reflect on why we created guides…
The importance of headings when writing for the web
In this post I want to focus on something seemingly unremarkable but important when writing concise web content. Headings. The benefits of using headings Headings are used to break up the different parts of your page content to give it…
UX Scotland: creating a better user experience
I woke up early and jumped on the train to Edinburgh for an unexpected trip to UX Scotland. Steve in our team sadly couldn’t make it. I jumped at the opportunity. Reading back over my notes and rewriting them has…