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Four Ways to Incorporate Social Media on Your Website

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Many departments and offices at 麻豆夜市 are using social media to reach students and alumni in ways that they don't traditionally use their websites. When was the last time you posted a photo gallery to your site? Or a news story that was only 240 characters long? What I would like to ask you...

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How to shoot better photos for your website

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Contributed web team blog from Doug Dugas, University Photographer in the Office of Communications & Marketing Compelling photos on a website are paramount. The fact that you started reading this shows you also think that better images equate to better websites. Notice I stated 鈥渂etter鈥 images, not...

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How to Promote Your Events on Campus

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If you are planning an event for the summer or fall, use these tools to promote your event on campus. University Events Calendar The most important thing you can do is put your event on the calendar. Enter your event one time on your website鈥檚 calendar, and it will automatically be included in three...

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Introducing Revisions: An Easier Way to Undo Changes to Your Content

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We all make mistakes. Now there鈥檚 an easier way to undo them. Introducing Revisions! Revisions is basically a log of what changes you鈥檝e made to the content of each page on your site. It keeps a record of who made the changes and how each change differs from the version before it. You can also...

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Undergrad curriculum updates on all websites are now automated

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What if I said you don鈥檛 have to manually update the curriculum on your department鈥檚 website anymore? I鈥檓 confident your reaction would be something like this: via GIPHY Or maybe it's more like this: via GIPHY Either way, it鈥檚 not your responsibility anymore. We鈥檝e worked closely with the Division...

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Link Check: All Louisiana.edu Sites Are Now Https

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All of our websites have received a security upgrade! What is https? You may have noticed that the websites are now http s:// instead of http://. That extra 鈥渟鈥 is what tells our site visitors and web browsers that our websites are secure. All of our websites now use an SSL certificate (also known...

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How Google Analytics can help improve our websites

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We鈥檙e always aiming to make our websites more effective tools. An effective website has the information that prospective students need so they can choose the right program 鈥 and the information that our current students need to succeed while they鈥檙e here. But how do we know if they鈥檙e effective...

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Help us help you: How can we make the websites better?

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We鈥檙e embarking on a new adventure! With your help, we鈥檙e going to start working on a new look for 麻豆夜市鈥檚 websites. 鈥淲hat do you mean, with my help?鈥 We want your input! We want to know what you love about the University鈥檚 website, what you hate, what could be better, what needs to stay the...

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Update to webforms: What you need to know

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On Wednesday, Jan. 31, the web team updated the webforms capabilities across all of our sites. Long story short, it was time for an upgrade. Here鈥檚 what鈥檚 changed. Creating conditional fields The way you create conditionals has changed for the better. It鈥檚 much easier to set up 鈥渋f this, then that鈥...

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