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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Another major website I worked on over the summer was the new Accommodation website, which went live in October. Photo galleries It was widely felt that the photographs used on the old accommodation webpages could have been improved. So […]

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Google has never quite worked with social media. After buying Blogger, it never seemed to know what to do with it. Then there were the high-profile flops Google Buzz and Google Wave. It was tempting to think that the mighty Google had lost touch completely while Facebook and Twitter gain more ground all the time. […]

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Is there anything more annoying than those security questions you need to login to certain websites? I cannot understand how they are supposed to make websites more secure. I understand that passwords can be cracked and the security question is a safety net. But let’s face it. All the advice on passwords is that they […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. We are currently working on a project that will provide a subtle but significant improvement in the navigation of the internal University of St Andrews websites (for current staff, students and postgraduates). What we have just now Currently, the […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Did you know it is possible for webpages to print out in a print-friendly format automatically? From time to time we are asked if we can add ‘print-friendly’ pages to the website. But this functionality has always been on […]