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What's a good URL?
It may seem like an unimportant issue, but web editors might be interested in reading a recent post from CSS-Tricks detailing good practice for writing URLs: Guidelines for URI Design I was...
View ArticleJS1k
I’ve been really inspired by the ongoing competition at JS1k challenging developers to build a JavaScript demo in under 1kb (and if possible, to fit inside a Tweet!). Many of the demos use the ‘canvas’...
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Silva at 400
Just a short post to say that there are now nearly 400 websites using Silva at UCL (we expect the 400th to come in the next few days!). These don’t include test sites, or sites within sites (such as...
View ArticleSilva updates
Here are a few Silva CMS updates we’ve made in the last month. We’ll endeavour to post similar updates as we continue to develop, fix bugs, etc. for the system over time. New code sources Display Silva...
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Goodbye to Neil…
As many UCL readers will know, our Web Services manager left us last month in order to emigrate with his family to Australia. Neil’s been working in Web Services for 8 years – a time that has seen huge...
View ArticleJoke of the day…
‘So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor’
View Article… and it’s goodbye from me.
Just a quick post to say that I’ll be leaving Web Services this week, so this will be my last post. It’s been great to be part of a skilled and enthusiastic team at Media Services, and it’s also been a...
View ArticleWhy did we choose Silva!?
A question often asked of us here in Web Services! The choice was ultimately made by me and Neil Martin, we were the two Web Support Officers at the time but our choice was severely limited. The...
View ArticleA BIG thanks to the IS Web Team!
Just a short note to thank the guys in IS for their work behind the scenes on the Silva infrastructure. Adrian Barker’s team have done a great job providing us with the infrastructure we need to...
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Not as soon as we’d hoped!
I’m reliably informed nobody reads this blog but no matter, if you read my last blog you’d have noticed something about an upgrade. You may have been wondering what happened to it! It did indeed all go...
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CMS Planning and Prioritising
Being somewhat shamefaced that we haven’t blogged for 15 months, it’s tempting to start with a list of excuses for the pregnant pause (big organisational changes, workload – the usual suspects.)...
View ArticleSilva training courses
New year, new resolutions… . Not really, but for a while we’ve been thinking about making changes to the current Silva training on offer. From January 30th, I’m introducing a one-day course, called...
View ArticleChief Editors, Editors and Authors in Silva
Quite a few of you received Silva training more than 1 or 2 years ago. Since then quite a few things have changed. You may want to look at the Silva Support pages for updated information. For example,...
View ArticleUsing add-ons in Firefox
Broken links on a web page can put people off re-visiting your website. But … You can quickly check all page links on a web page by adding the link-checker add-on in Firefox. Go to Tools | Add-ons In...
View ArticleDelay between edit and what user can see
WAMS is employing a web-cache which means that when people make changes to their website in Silva, it can take up to 30 minutes before this can be seen by users. This is not new, we’ve been doing this...
View ArticleWebNet June 17th 2 – 4pm
Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT WAMS will present the soon-to-go-live new Search feature on the UCL website and all sites using the Corporate Identity template! Please register on the WAMS webpage.
View ArticleWebNet05 – June 17th 2014
Today, the 5th WebNet meeting was held in the Christopher Inglold XLG LT between 2pm and 3.30pm. Relevant presentations are available on the WAMS webpage The next WebNet meeting will be held in the...
View ArticleNot every good writer can write for the web…
Paul Boag writes about all things web-related. Sometimes the articles are of relevance, sometimes not, but I think this particular article is worth a read. You can listen to his post or read it. You...
View ArticleIRIS update
The email below was sent to all Chief Editors, Editors and Authors in Silva on Tue, June 15th at 18.08pm. Hi Silva editors, Just a quick note to let you know that in collaboration with the IRIS team we...
View ArticleBot and Robot filtering on Google Analytics
Please read the link (below) from Google Analytics for the explanation. Introducing Bot and Spider Filtering WAMS has decided to apply the filtering as mentioned in the link above – this may result in...
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