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For all ÐÓ°ÉרÇø websites, we use Google Analytics to tell us things like: How many people are visiting the website Peak traffic days and times How people are navigating through the website How people are getting to the website What devices they're using So you know: all web ambassadors can have...

Congratulations to our newest owners of an official UL Lafayette website: The Institute for Coastal and Water Research! The Institute for Coastal and Water research is a fairly new research institute on campus, and has absorbed the work of the Institute for Coastal Ecology and Engineering, on top of...

Websites are a lot like the interactive, multiple-choice, multiple-ending book series called " Choose Your Own Adventure." As a kid, I was obsessed with the series and I wasn't alone, seeing as how it is the 4th-bestselling series for children ever published. In the books, the protagonistÐÓ°ÉרÇø”that is...

After a busy few years, almost all colleges, departments, and offices now have their own website in the new ÐÓ°ÉרÇø templates. As web ambassadors, you've all been through the basics of how to write for and work in your website, but there's a lot more our sites have to offer. And we want to teach...

Over the last couple of months, we've been working with the new staff in the Office for Campus Diversity to reorganize and redo most of their site and its content so it better matches their vision for the office and the ÐÓ°ÉרÇø. With that redesign, the Office for Campus Diversity wanted to...

On Monday, Aimee and I were given the directive that all CLIDs had to removed from ÐÓ°ÉרÇø websites. At that point, everything else on our to-do lists got shoved to the back burner and we scoured every single website to find all of the published CLIDs and replace them with email aliases. A...

Attention, web ambassadors! Important announcement. On Wednesday morning, Webmaster Eric will be running an update on all of our sites that will aid security and performance. While this is happening, we won't be able to get into any website to make edits . And when I say "we," that means all of us...

It came all too soon but here we are, staring down another start to the academic year. It's an exciting, yet stressful time for all of us as students roam the halls again in masses and class begins. It's time to review web content and make sure that your site reflects this semester. Files need to be...

It's summer, we're floating along, and then all of a sudden ÐÓ°ÉרÇø” BAM. The fall semester is upon us. Every semester seems busier than the last and, inevitably, some things get lost in the shuffle. Don't let communication with your students be one of those things. I know my blogs are usually about things...

A little while back, we discovered that the events you entered on your individual websites weren't showing up on the ÐÓ°ÉרÇø's main calendar, calendar.louisiana.edu. Well, it's fixed. Webmaster Eric fixed it. That's the whole point of this post. It was actually fixed a month or so ago, but we...