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“Schools & Colleges” vs “Academic Programs”

Monday, June 15th, 2009

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” vsĀ ”Academic Programs”
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Advocating for Web Standards and Accessibility

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Earlier this week I gave a presentation about Web Standards and Accessibility to the ASIS&T Wayne State Student Chapter.
I gave the presentation as an overview of the importance of web standards and accessibility. Not only as the right thing to do but also how they can benefit any web project. Not only is there a [...]

Optimizing high traffic pages with web standards

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

The first days of a semester are always big for students and for hits to the Wayne State Homepage. 40,500 visitors the first day and 36,500 the second.
We are lucky in the fact that our hosting environment is setup to regularly respond to this amount of bandwidth. That is not to say we don’t have [...]