So its rush week, not the Greek rush but get everything up before students start the fall semester. So as we are crossing all the t’s and dotting all the i’s here is whats going on outside in the rest of the world.

Ultimate Usability Testing Toolkit
9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity
PhpSecInfo: Similar To phpinfo() [...]

This week we had our first campus communicator meetup. In the past it was a once per year half day event with presentations and mandatory attendance. This year we scaled it down to a 1-2 hour discussion on timely topics with a smaller group.
About 20 communicators from across campus attended the meetup. We had salad, [...]

Part of the Division of Research the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (IEHS) has in the past hosted its own site, it was time to bring them into the overall Division of Research look and feel.
The navigation changed slightly to better focus on the users needs and the white background with black text makes the [...]

This week was all about customer relationship. As students were ramping up for the beginning of classes they started paying their bills and complaining about it across the web. Luckily @waynestate is here to work with them through the process.
Enjoy the short list of links this week.

Creating a Relative Time Function | Dev Tips | [...]

A bitter sweet week with new beginnings, Rob Vrabel starting back in our department and sad endings, Jake Williams, our summer Biztech summer intern leaving. It’s been a crazy few weeks as we race to get everything up before school starts so I have missed a few link lists so I compiled a kick butt [...]

The Executive & Professional Development (EPD) is part of the Educational Outreach redesign project. The EPD is a unique part of the university that offer a tailored business training.
Proven, no-nonsense problem-solving strategies to assess and satisfy the specific organizational needs of its clients.  EPD is committed to providing learning programs that are targeted, relevant, fully [...]

I am proud to announce a new (returning) member to the Web Communications team, Robert Vrabel!
Rob worked as a programming in the web communications department a year and a half ago and contributed to the core set of services we use on a daily basis. The content management system, events calendar and PHPSimpl framework just [...]