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Social media widget

This week, we launched a ‘social media widget’ on the JISC homepage (the eagle-eyed among you might have noticed it was launched last week but quickly pulled when it fell over!). We didn’t just want to provide a link to YouTube, Slideshare etc. We wanted to surface some of the actual content JISC provides on […]

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Have your say about the JISC website

This year we’ve made quite a lot of changes to the JISC website. As well as the new look and feel, we’ve added some new features. You can customise your JISC homepage to see content you’re interested in using a number of different widgets. We’ve implemented a faceted search for the publications section. You can now browse […]

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Does everybody hate their CMS?

We’ve recently run a survey to find out levels of user satisfaction with our web content management system (CMS). I guessed the answer before we started – everyone hates it! Levels of dissatisfaction are very high, with slow performance, poor usability and inflexibility the major gripes. Much of this is justified and there are some […]

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Small (scale dev) is beautiful

After the long, complex and all-consuming project that was the JISC website relaunch in April 2009, it’s been lovely to be able to engage in some small-scale, interesting little bits of dev that hopefully add some value to the site. First up, we’ve implemented an ’email this page/share this’ tool for all content pages. These […]