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Accessibility and the University of Kent website

By Matthew Bull | 10 May 2018

The need for accessible websites Here are a few things to consider about accessibility: 15% of the world’s population have some form of disability. This … Read more

Content workshops – school migrations

By Jonathan Thirlwell | 20 February 2018

Over the past few weeks we’ve held three content workshops to help schools prepare for their new websites. We went through each of the standard … Read more

Finding your way around: designing content for staff and students

By Matthew Bull | 22 January 2018

Until now we’ve aimed our web redesign project squarely at externally-focused marketing content. The consumers tend to be prospective students, parents, or other external users … Read more

The University’s new ‘contact us’ link

By Matthew Bull | 20 November 2017

Most people who study or work at our university will have some form of active contact with us before coming here. It might be an … Read more

School pilot update – page types and content guidelines

By Jonathan Thirlwell | 11 September 2017

We’re developing page types and guidelines for Site Editor (a new system we’re working on to make it easy to create online content using our … Read more

Feedback on Architecture pages

By Jonathan Thirlwell | 05 September 2017

We did guerrilla user testing with 6 people ( 2x PhD, PGR, PGT and two graduate staff members) in the Library. We used the home, … Read more

User stories for web content

By Matthew Bull | 18 July 2017

One of the hardest things in life is to look at things how other people look at them. So when you’re building something - say … Read more

Site Editor feedback

By Jonathan Thirlwell | 13 June 2017

To improve the design of Site Editor (the tool to publish pages in the new website theme), we did user testing on a paper prototype … Read more

Building blocks of the new Kent web theme

By Matthew Bull | 08 December 2016

We’re planning to release a range of key web pages in the new theme by the end of February. This is a summary of what … Read more

A summer with the new Kent web theme

By Matthew Bull | 25 October 2016

Here’s your summary… – New programme of work for a University content management solution. – Short-term plan to rebuild and retheme a small number of … Read more

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