Blog posts
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Reducing broken links and page not found messages
Many of you will be familiar with 404 page not found messages. They’re the incredibly frustrating pages you see when you’re trying to find something on the web, but it…
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Course pages: a milestone five years in the making
Picture the scene. It’s 2014, on a chilly December afternoon. In a small office in the basement of Heslington Hall, the website publish has just finished, and with it, seven…
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Avoiding a (head) shot in the dark
In-house photographer, Alex Holland, is often commissioned to take an interesting portrait shot of a University academic whom he’s never met before and who can only give a few minutes…
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Our first online campus tour
We are pleased to present the University’s first online campus tour. The tour has been designed to allow viewers to explore campus from wherever they are in the world. For…
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A new look for our Open Days
If you spent any time in the Exhibition Centre during the latest Open Days, you may have noticed some changes to the department stands.
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Making our social media more human
If you follow the University on social media you might have noticed that every week or so we share a photo and a quote from a ‘Human of York’. These…
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Redesigning the York Festival of Ideas website
If you’ve visited the website for the 2019 York Festival of Ideas, you may have noticed that it has a brand new look. This post describes the process of designing…
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Departmental research pages – our progress so far
Our project to redevelop departmental research pages is underway. We’re redesigning, restructuring and rewriting key web pages to highlight our departments’ research strengths and showcase examples of York research making…
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An update on the Research Digital Developments Roadmap
One of our major programmes of work currently ongoing is designed to support the University’s research activity. We call this work the ‘Research Digital Developments Roadmap’ and it aims to…