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Defining “effective”
Our primary function is to provide an effective web presence for the University. It’s essentially our mission statement. As I’ve settled into my new role I’ve realized the meaning of “effective” has...
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Going Mobile – What we did and why it matters
As announced in EagleEye on April 10, we’ve made a huge change to how the UMW site is viewed on mobile devices. Here we’ll talk about the differences and decision making that went into this rollout....
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Bringing forth the toolbar
I’ve been known to say that “helpful links” is geek for “we don’t know what to do with this stuff.” It’s the web equivalent of a junk drawer, or, more accurately, a junk room. A poorly organized garage...
View ArticleFrom Web Services to Digital Communications: Year 1
In April of 2013, I first contemplated picking up my entire life and moving across the country for an opportunity to genuinely make a difference in the direction and outcomes of web strategies at a...
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User Testing Round One – What you’re telling us
Results are in for the navigation survey sent out in January! Our goal is to make the UMW website’s navigation intuitive and functional. To accomplish that we are breaking down our navigation to its...
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Challenges and Benefits of the New UMW Faculty and Staff Site
The IT move toward the end-of-life shut down of EagleNet presents an opportunity to produce a useful, comprehensive faculty and staff website. Digital Communications tasked an intern, Sabia Prescott,...
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Testing Admissions
As previously mentioned in User Testing Round One – What you’re telling us, the goal of the recent navigation surveys is to ultimately restructure the navigation for the website. Our main issue going...
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