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How to use student stories to create great content

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Last week, we worked with Marisa, the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration web ambassador extraordinaire, to put together a quick news piece about the AcceleRagin' program. However, we didn't focus on the program and the nitty gritty of its inner workings ÐÓ°É×¨Çø” instead, we wanted to know...

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Time to update your contact information

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Now that the official ÐÓ°É×¨Çø Post Office has moved to the Student Union, everyone has a shiny new box where their mail will arrive. And almost everyone's shiny new box has a shiny new number. If you want people to know where to send your mail, then you need to update your websites. Now, remember...

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'Mobilegeddon' and why it matters for us

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Story time: the other evening, my boyfriend and I were wading through our memories in an attempt to figure out the order of former attorneys general. After we both struggled to remember who was before Janet Reno, I grabbed my phone and Googled "attorney general." And that was it. We've become more...

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What not to do on your website

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We all need to gather information from site visitors from time to time, whether it's an email address or phone number. But did you know that ÐÓ°É×¨Çø, state, and federal laws prohibits us from collecting restrictive/sensitive information, such as social security number, credit card information, or...

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ÐÓ°É×¨Çø College is officially online!

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Congratulations to the wonderful web ambassadors in ÐÓ°É×¨Çø College! Their new site, universitycollege.louisiana.edu, marks the final phase of their transition to a new name. Quick background: The office formerly known as ÐÓ°É×¨Çø College is now known as ÐÓ°É×¨Çø Connection. The college...

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The photo library is back!

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It's been out of commission for a little while, but now it's back: the photo library! With the updates that happened today, our webmaster was able to fix some bugs and get the photo library back up and running for every site. To access your photo library, make your moves to insert a photo just like...

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How to look better on Google

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Take a quick second to open up a new tab in your browser and Google your department/school/college/office. Hopefully, if you included "UL Lafayette" in the search, your site should be the first to come up. Now, do you see those two lines of text below the name of your site? That's the summary...

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Help us help you with events

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Hey, awesome web ambassador. Yeah, I'm talking to you. You have been so great about using your sites to create events, which are set up to show up on the ÐÓ°É×¨Çø's calendar.louisiana.edu site. Because you've been such rock stars, we found a glitch in our system that keeps your events from...

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What spring cleaning can teach us about our websites

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Spring is upon us! And with that comes the realization that you should probably start your spring cleaning. And inevitably you end up asking yourself, "How did I end up with all this stuff?" And you vow to not buy so much in the coming year. The same could be said about websites. Whether your...

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Let's talk tables & how to adjust them for mobile

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Ah, tables. We're all familiar with them, but we may not be familiar with their intended purpose on the web. Before we keep going, let's get one thing clear: tables are for sets of data. They should not be used to manipulate layout on a page. Like we've mentioned before, there are web accessibility...

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