Some of you might remember that I posted an entry back in March about website accessibility and a motion I was raising in the Student General Meeting (SGM) at university. Essentially, the motion was designed to push the Students’ Union and the university to improve the accessibility of their various websites. The first attempt at [...]
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Bleh
March 24th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Well, unfortunately the Student General Meeting that I talked about in my last blog entry was cancelled at the last minute which means my website accessibility motion didn’t get heard. However, it will be making an appearance at the next SGM which will be happening in the first week of term – giving me more [...]
Website Accessibility Motion
March 21st, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Website Accessibility is a big topic in Web Design at the moment, but what exactly does it mean? Well, it’s about making sure a website can be seen and used by as many people as possible. The main emphasis is on making sure that people with sight problems or problems using a mouse can still [...]
Google News and Swansea Letter Bomb
February 7th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
As part of the major upgrades we put into place on the Waterfront website two weeks ago (link), we submitted the website for inclusion on the Google News index. For those that don’t know, Google News scans news websites from across the world and aggregates them into one system. This is a fantastic resource for [...]
Off the shelf
October 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
If there was ever any proof that using off the shelf website content management packages were a bad idea, this has to be it. The Swansea University Student’s Union website runs off a package called Joomla! which describes itself on its website as: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems [...]
Waterfront is finally live
September 30th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
It’s been a very busy week. Last Friday I moved from home in Abergavenny to the new flat in Swansea. In the rush I forgot half of the stuff I meant to bring down, so next weekend I’ll be going back home to collect it all. Unlike last year, I didn’t get much time to [...]
Introducing Project Metis
September 25th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This entry is a re-post of a blog posted on the “Project Metis” blog on the new Waterfront Online website – launched today (Monday 25th September) at 9 am. Welcome to the very first blog post on the new Waterfront Online website. This new blog will cover all the exciting changes that are happening to [...]
New Site Design
January 28th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Finally have a first draft design for my new website. Hope you like it!