Tag Archives: Design

Keeping a collection of screenshots for inspiration

Posted on Thursday 25 August 2011 by

Back in late 2008 I read an interview with a Web designer who advocated keeping a scrapbook of cool designs that you’ve seen so that when the time came for Needing Inspiration™ you already had a volume of stuff to … Continue reading →

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Developing a new theme for Moodle 2.0

Posted on Friday 8 April 2011 by

At the start of the current academic session (2010-2011) the University introduced Moodle as its preferred learning management system (LMS), also called a ‘virtual learning environment’ (VLE) and began the move away from WebCT (which is now owned by former … Continue reading →

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Making the Student Handbook mobile-friendly

Posted on Friday 13 August 2010 by

Yesterday I wrote a post about our first steps into the mobile web. Today I will look at what I had to do to make it happen. Learning about the principles The first step was to think about the principles … Continue reading →

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Launch of new website design

Posted on Thursday 11 September 2008 by

Following consultation with staff and students, and nearly nine months of work we launched the new website design for the University of St Andrews during the early evening of Monday (8 September). Unlike the website launch in May 2007, which … Continue reading →

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