We would like to give a warm welcome to Jake Williams who started working in our department this week. He is a high school student who is taking part in the Biz Tech Summer Camp put on by the School of Business.
Jake will be helping us with managing web content and social media. It is [...]

C&IT recently launched a new dashboard for applicants to check their admission status. It allows them to see at a glance what they applied for, the items they completed and what they still have outstanding. I will post more about the actual dashboard later.
This morning I was presented with their default login page to bring [...]

Its the first day of summer and Fathers Day. Not a ton going on this week but some great resources. No real theme, they seem to be all over the board. Enjoy.

Rails Magazine Issue 3 – Print Edition Available
MIT/Stanford/Syracuse Team Develop New PHP Intepreter-Based XSS and SQL Security Tester
Symbol Signs Collection
HTML [...]

We don’t usually tell the community when we are doing A/B testing so the results don’t get skewed. One recent one has been running for the past few weeks and it looks like its not going to end up with a conclusive result so we are stopping the test right now.
“Schools & Colleges” vs ”Academic Programs”
We [...]

Do you know WSUP? Find out Fall 2009. Enjoy these links of the week.

Check My Colours – Analyse the color contrast of web pages
Designing for Sign Up (video & slides)
Sending an XML document object to PHP with jQuery
“Good enough” instead of “absolutely perfect”
40 Stunning Ubuntu, Mac, and Windows Wallpapers | [...]

Have you ever had to put multiple events in the calendar at events.wayne.edu that were so similar you wished there was a way to just copy your event instead of re-entering all that data? We’ve been working on an event copy feature and now it’s available for you to use.
Want to copy an event?

When you [...]

Do you have a new website, application, design, or cool tool to share with others? Join us at Washtenaw Community College at 6:30pm for our third demo night, where you can show off your latest creation, or share with others a great application that makes your work easier.
Demo night is a great opportunity to:

share your [...]

So we have been updating our blog more lately. We have been neglecting it for a little bit. But the goal is to keep everyone in the loop with changes going on around campus. We hope to update the blog more often from now on with small notices about every other day.
Anyways, a lot has [...]

If you use the online Campus Map to directly link to a building you will notice some changes today with the building and category list page. We added some additional information about every building on the map. Check out the old version (left) and the new version (right) above. Here is also run down of [...]

Yesterday we reached 1,000 Twitter followers, that might seem like a lot but it isn’t. Just because we have a four figure follower count doesn’t mean we can do anything special. It actually means we have to work harder to provide clear, concise and relevant content.

Slow and steady growth
Our approach with Twitter from the beginning [...]