Updates

The university website must follow certain standards and guidelines. Some of these guidelines relate to web accessibility and are required by law. The redesign site has a list of helpful reminders for content editors. You can read the full list here, but I wanted to point out a few that may be especially helpful. As … Content Reminders

Dear Campus Community, We’d like to share an update on the progress the Office of Communications and Marketing is making toward the redesigned university website. Improved Way to Login to WordPress We now have an improved way to login to WordPress using single-sign-on. It was our goal with the redesign to move toward a SSO … University Website Redesign Update – Feb. 2023

WordPress was one of the last remaining university applications to require the original NetID to log in. It was our goal with the web redesign to move toward a single sign-on (SSO) experience so that employees and students could use one login process to access multiple applications, such as Workday, Blackboard, and others. In early … New Way to Log In to WordPress

Dear Campus Community, Here is an update on the progress the Office of Communications and Marketing is making toward the redesigned university website. Improved Way to Login to WordPress We are excited to share information about an improved login experience for WordPress editors. WordPress has been one of the last remaining university applications to require … University Website Redesign Update – Nov. 2022

Dear Campus Community, Here is an update on the progress the Office of Communications and Marketing is making toward the redesigned university website. We are in Phase 2 of our timeline. This phase is where we will begin work on how the website pages are organized. During this phase, we look forward to inviting the … University Website Redesign Update

It’s easy to assume that headings are used for decorative text, but headings are actually important and helpful pieces of text, especially for people who use assistive technology. According to the W3C, “Headings communicate the organization of the content on the page. Web browsers, plug-ins, and assistive technologies can use them to provide in-page navigation.” … Using Headings Correctly

Dear Campus Community, Here is an update on the work the Office of Communications and Marketing is doing to continue progress toward the redesigned university website. We’re continuing to partner with departments to conduct content audits and updates of their websites; there are currently about 30 departments working through this process. A content audit involves … University Website Redesign Update

There are many qualities that make a website great. Some are subjective, but others are not. Two of the most important objective aspects of our site are quality assurance and accessibility. Both reflect on us as a university, but more importantly, they can affect the experience people have when they visit our site. It can … Creating Quality Content and Using Siteimprove

At UA Little Rock, we use web analytics to help us understand the behavior of users who visit our website, ualr.edu. These insights help us make decisions on how to improve the overall user experience. The platform we use is Google Analytics, the most widely used (and free) web analytics tool. Web analytics show the … Why We Use Web Analytics to Measure Performance

Dear Campus Community, Here is an update on the work the Office of Communications and Marketing web team is doing to continue progress toward the redesigned university website. We’re about a month into the launch of the new site search tool and are seeing great improvements. We will continuously monitor its functionality and look for … Content Audit Before and Afters