- Author: Dave Krause
When we designed Site Builder 3, one of our goals was to meet UC guidelines for accessibility and improve the "usability" of our sites. Usability refers to the ease with which a user can muddle through your content.
One of the challenges we faced was dealing with font-color changes on Site Builder pages. For users with color-blindness or low vision, green on white can present a very real barrier to comprehending your content.
Our solution was to remove the color picker from the text editor in Site Builder 3. Success! No...
- Author: Dave Krause
We took our annual trip to the Yolo County Fair today! It's our chance to see "ANR in Action." We visited the Yolo UCCE booth, the many UCD, IPM and RICs displays, the 4-H stuff (including a trip through the livestock barns) and of course, our friends from the Master Gardener program.
I only got one photo, but it pretty much defines the state of IT within ANR.
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- Author: Dave Krause
Most of the web guys have had Facebook accounts since Mark Zuckerberg was still cramming for a Poly Sci final. However, only now do we have official UCANR Facebook accounts.
People ask us frequently about Facebook, and since our private accounts are laced with all manner of unsavory content, we opted to create new ones that you can "like."
So, please search for Dave Krause, Bryon Noel, Alex Zangeneh-Azam, and Karl Krist should you want to connect with us (use the @ucdavis.edu account if you see more than one). We may post smallish Web updates there, as if you need an incentive.
- Author: Dave Krause
Anyone reading this on their mobile device right now? According to our Blog stats, 74% of you read the Web/IT blog while in the bathroom, presumably taking a luxurious bath, the scent of exotic oils and candles relaxing you into a perfect moment of Zen which is the exact state of mind you should be in when reading our posts.
Chances are, if you're reading this in the bathroom, you're using a mobile device. We've been eager to optimize our applications for the mobile web for some time now, so last week we furiously cranked out a mobile version of the Portal and Collaborative Tools.
Keep in mind, these are VERY preliminary. We expect to enhance, beautify and grow our mobile environment as time and resources permit. Please...
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
Once again the Web Action team is releasing something new! Something that many have asked for one way or another. Currently you may track your blogs statistics using the built in visits counter (which is not precise at all). Or you may use Google Analytics. Which works great except for the fact that your blog may be incorporated into many different Site Builder 2 and Site Builder 3 sites and Google Analytics cannot track these. This makes tracking blog stats almost impossible... Until now!
I would like to introduce to you "Blog Stats Beta"! These stats differ in that they gather data not only about each blog but data about each blog post is tracked individually. The stats are counted for any location that the Blog...
