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Four Ways to Incorporate Social Media on Your Website

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Many departments and offices at UL Lafayette are using social media to reach students and alumni in ways that they don't traditionally use their websites. When was the last time you posted a photo gallery to your site? Or a news story that was only 240 characters long? What I would like to ask you...

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How to shoot better photos for your website

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Contributed web team blog from Doug Dugas, 杏吧专区 Photographer in the Office of Communications & Marketing Compelling photos on a website are paramount. The fact that you started reading this shows you also think that better images equate to better websites. Notice I stated 杏吧专区渂etter杏吧专区 images, not...

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How to Promote Your Events on Campus

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If you are planning an event for the summer or fall, use these tools to promote your event on campus. 杏吧专区 Events Calendar The most important thing you can do is put your event on the calendar. Enter your event one time on your website杏吧专区檚 calendar, and it will automatically be included in three...

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Introducing Revisions: An Easier Way to Undo Changes to Your Content

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We all make mistakes. Now there杏吧专区檚 an easier way to undo them. Introducing Revisions! Revisions is basically a log of what changes you杏吧专区檝e made to the content of each page on your site. It keeps a record of who made the changes and how each change differs from the version before it. You can also...

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Search engine optimization: How to improve your academic site for search

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is something we all know we should be doing, but most often it杏吧专区檚 an afterthought (at best). And who can blame us? When you杏吧专区檙e attempting to redesign 10+ sites at a time with a strict three-year timeline, search engine optimization isn杏吧专区檛 necessarily the number one...

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Undergrad curriculum updates on all websites are now automated

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What if I said you don杏吧专区檛 have to manually update the curriculum on your department杏吧专区檚 website anymore? I杏吧专区檓 confident your reaction would be something like this: via GIPHY Or maybe it's more like this: via GIPHY Either way, it杏吧专区檚 not your responsibility anymore. We杏吧专区檝e worked closely with the Division...

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Link Check: All Louisiana.edu Sites Are Now Https

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All of our websites have received a security upgrade! What is https? You may have noticed that the websites are now http s:// instead of http://. That extra 杏吧专区渟杏吧专区 is what tells our site visitors and web browsers that our websites are secure. All of our websites now use an SSL certificate (also known...

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How Google Analytics can help improve our websites

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We杏吧专区檙e always aiming to make our websites more effective tools. An effective website has the information that prospective students need so they can choose the right program 杏吧专区 and the information that our current students need to succeed while they杏吧专区檙e here. But how do we know if they杏吧专区檙e effective...

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Help us help you: How can we make the websites better?

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We杏吧专区檙e embarking on a new adventure! With your help, we杏吧专区檙e going to start working on a new look for UL Lafayette杏吧专区檚 websites. 杏吧专区淲hat do you mean, with my help?杏吧专区 We want your input! We want to know what you love about the 杏吧专区杏吧专区檚 website, what you hate, what could be better, what needs to stay the...

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Update to webforms: What you need to know

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On Wednesday, Jan. 31, the web team updated the webforms capabilities across all of our sites. Long story short, it was time for an upgrade. Here杏吧专区檚 what杏吧专区檚 changed. Creating conditional fields The way you create conditionals has changed for the better. It杏吧专区檚 much easier to set up 杏吧专区渋f this, then that杏吧专区...

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