Weblog
Welcome to the weblog of the Humanities and Social Science web team. We will publish articles, news, and technical advice here to help college staff develop the presence of the CHSS school sites.
Latest articles
Using Wordpress to add functionality to Polopoly
Euan Cameron`s Web Developer`s Clinic presentation slides are now available online. Please feel free to view. If you have any questions please contact Euan at his office. Presentation slides ...
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New SIRE site launched
http://www.sire.ac.uk We are delighted to announce the launch of a brand new site for the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).A collaborative effort by the team’s web developers, Hanna Cannon and Heather Larnach, has produced ...
Firefox 6 Upgrade now available
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 6, offering a new JavaScript editor and several other tools aimed at web developers. Firefox 6 download ...
HSS Web Team is moving !
We are in the process of moving a couple of doors down to 59 and 60 George Square. Please be understanding to the fact that the normal work of the team will be a little disrupted in the next 2 days....
Edinburgh named one of the best places in the UK to study
Edinburgh came a close second in a recent poll of more than 46,000 students naming the best and worst places to study in the UK. The students reviewed 62 university towns and cities based on five criteria: going out, shops, transport, community and facilities, in a study conducted by accommodationfo...
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Ambassador Nicholas Platt addresses the Confucius Institute
On Thursday 21st April former Ambassador Platt, long time China specialist, author of `China Boys` and President of the Asia Society in New York for 12 years, addressed a full house at the Confucius Institute. Showing some of his ‘home movie’ footage of the Nixon trip, and film of family and...
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DOJ Enforces ADA: Law School Website Accessibility Required
http://ht.ly/4Ko5R In a recent announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) has settled two cases to make law school online application processes accessible for blind applicants......
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The Umayyads 2011 Conference programme updated
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/conferences/umayyads2011/ Please visit the International Conference on The Umayyads (24-25th June 2011 at the University of Edinburgh) for the latest programme information...
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The Umayyads 2011 conference site launched
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/conferences/umayyads2011/index.html An international conference on The Umayyads will be held on 24-25th June 2011 at the University of Edinburgh. The conference will revisit the Umayyad era,...
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New Scottish Studies website
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/scottish-studies Scottish Studies is a new umbrella site bringing together a wide range of courses in the Colle...
PG Virtual Open Week site live
Check it out at http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/open-day/virtual-open-week After weeks of hard work, our Virtual Postgraduate Open Week website launched last week, opening booking for ...
Helen, Lewis and Dave have joined our team
Helen Onslow, Lewis Carver and David Oulton join as Copy Writers in Digital Marketing.Their contact details can be found on our team website:http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/web-team/Who/ ...
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Hanna Cannon joins the team
Hanna Cannon has joined our team as an Assistant Web Developer, replacing Fiona McKinlay who left us in December. Her email address is hanna.cannon@ed.ac.uk...
Fiona McKinlay is leaving the team
Fiona has just left us to head off to pastures new....
Heather Larnach has joined our team
Heather Larnach has joined our team, replacing Anthony Quinn who left recently. Her email address is heather.larnach@ed.ac.uk....
CLICK-EAST Research site is launced
http://www.clickeast.co.uk/ CLICK-EAST stands for `Computer-based Learning in Children: the Edinburgh Autism Social-attention Trial`. The CLICK-EAST project is a research study which is developing a new computer game for ch...
Lad o Pairts: James Young Simpson Bicentennial Symposium
Information about the `Lad o Pairts: James Young Simpson Bicentennial Symposium` is available at Lad o Pairts: James Young Simpson Bicentennial Symposium website ...
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British Standard 8878 on Web Accessibility: Complementary Guidance
...It’s certainly taken a while, but next month should finally see the long-awaited arrival of BS 8878 – a British Standard on web accessibility. http://bit.ly/aD0CV8 ...
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Google vs Bing
A Google search for `ace.ed.ac.uk` provides the expected results. However Bing produces some unusual results......
5% of babies `have a social media profile`
http://bit.ly/aUEGiQ ...
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Farewell, Anthony
Our dear colleague Anthony Quinn has left the HSS Web Team for pastures new. In his two years he worked on a range of projects, most recently working with colleagues throughout the College on the Polopoly rollout, who were – as we were – never short of praise for all his hard work. He ...
The real pay days revealed
So pay day does not land 2 days following a full moon, or 3 in months with the letter R in them! Pay Day Dates ...
New YouTube video uploaded
A new video has been uploaded to the HSS web team`s YouTube channel showing our frontend for google calendar embedded in Polopoly. News and Events frontend for Google Calendar ...
Markdown, markdownify and XLST
Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz to help maximum readability and `publishability` of both its input and output forms. Editors are available that are WYSIWYM As yet the are no WYSIWYG editors that are particularly good. Th...
Ed ac uk Job Vacancies rss feed (a yahoo pipes test)
A yahoo-pipes-produced feed of the UoE latest vacancies list. http://tinyurl.com/n3hpjo Feel free to use, but at your own risk ...
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SWINC - Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century site live
The SWINC website The Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC) site went up onto the live servers on the 19 April 2010 ...
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Greasemonkey and polopoly http://tinyurl.com/y4xjpzc
Our unsupported greasemonkey files are now available at our Wiki page Greasemonkey files on our wiki page These files include drag and drop functionality, automatic closing of section/article tabs, and fixi...
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The Société Internationale Rencesvals page update
Currently working on improving the ranking and structure of the British Branch of the Société Internationale Rencesvals The Société Internationale Rencesvals - British Branch ...
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Search Engine Optimisation
Aldona is looking into SEO using a commercial site http://www.fmperfumegroup.co.uk as an example. The aim is to analyse how optimising keywords, copy, links from other sites and using social networking tools such as Twitter affects the statistics....
Detected: Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar and Adsense
Seems I am getting (possible) false positives today: http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=155383...
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New vid on HSS Webteam Channel
Youtube Video of another greasemonkey for Polopoly A vid of a greasemonkey that adds a button to polopoly and removes the unselected tabs quickly. A RSI-inducing minute or two saved....
Drag and Drop Sorting in Polopoly Edit Mode
The Web Team have created a drag and drop to help speed up re-ordering of already created pages in edit mode of Polopoly. An example showing it in practice is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0XfnEs0ZcM ...
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Even more new members working along side the team!
Anna Rogers (Ace Publicity Editorial Assistant), Courtney Hagen (HSS College Publicity Editorial Assistant) and Lee Bunce (HSS College Publicity Editorial Assistant) are now being line-managed and working with the HSS College Web Team. We are extremely happy to have these talented editors working to...
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University of Edinburgh News Feed - RSS or Widget
http://tinyurl.com/yzgdzzw The team have created a temporary RSS feed of the University of Edinburgh`s News while we wait for an automated feed created by Polopoly....
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Word doc or PDF Accessibility
Some good guidelines and how-to`s have been published at: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/ ...
3 New Members of Staff
Natascha Kearsay, Corinne Redfern and Nigel Zimmermann have started work for the HSS College and are based at Room 3.02, 56 George Square, Edinburgh...
School of ACE migrated into Polopoly
The first phase of migrating the School of ACE into Polopoly has been completed by the School, the WDP team and HSS Web team. Phase 2 is currently in progress....
MSc European Studies site live: http://tinyurl.com/r363ho
MSc European Studies: http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/european/ This is a new Masters course, exploring the interaction between languages, cultures and politics in a European context....
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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies site goes live
The new Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies` site went live on the 6th April 2009.http://www.medren.ed.ac.uk/ Edinburgh University is home to one of the largest communities of medieval and renaissance specialists internationally, w...
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New Translation Studies Website Launched
Sebnem Susam-Sarajeva, Charlotte Bosseaux and the HSS Web Team have recently launched a new website for the Translation Studies Graduate Programme. The new site contains a wealth of information about the Translation Studie...
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Anand Sengodan Leaves the HSS Web Team
Anand Sengodan`s contract and position as Web Team Manager for the HSS Web Team has come to a close. The team and colleagues from across the college wish Anand all the best for the future....
HSK Chinese Proficiency Certificate
The Confucius Institute for Scotland and the HSS Web Team have launched a new section on the Confucius Institute website outlining the Hanyu shuiping kaoshi (HSK) or Chinese proficiency certificate ...
Confucius Institute of Scotland YouTube Channel created by the HSS Web Team
The HSS Web team and the Confucius Institute of Scotland have been working closely to increase the Institutes online presence. The HSS Web Team have recently created and styled a YouTube Channel to help achieve as wide an audience as possible for the videos the Institute creates. You can v...
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Dennis Martin`s contract comes to an end...
Dennis Martin temporary contract recently came to an end. The HSS Web Team will miss his amiable manner and professional competency. We will all miss his company. Good luck Dennis with whatever you choose to do in the future....
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IMES News and Events System Release
The HSS Web Team and the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies department are soon to release a News and Events system for the IMES website, IMES . This will keep staff, students and the wider world up to date with the latest departmental activities....
New site for School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
The new site for School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures has now been launched. It can be viewed at http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk ....
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New member of the team
Dennis Martin has joined our team in the role of College Assistant Web Developer....
Two new arrivals
The team has two new College Assistant Web Developers. Anthony Quinn and Fiona McKinlay both bring new knowledge and fresh ideas to the team from their previous roles outside of the University, and will provide valuable input on a number of new and forthcoming projects....
Projects completed in the last 4-6 months. Plans for the next 3-6 months.
The Moray House School of Education - Considerable redevelopment and restructuring of the Post Graduate and Research Centre pages for the RAE. - Templates have been created and the pages will now be re-developed for the rest of...
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New Arrival
As of Monday 29th October the HSS web team has gained a new member Christopher Chestnut. Christopher has joined us from the student support team and having past experience with the Office of Lifelong Learning one of the clients supported by the web team we are sure that he will be a valued member o...
Confucius Institute for Scotland website now live
The Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh has been set up with Sino-Scottish government backing, to promote the teaching of Chinese language and culture in Scotland. The project to develop a website for this institute was undertook by the Humanities ...
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Pastures New
As of Monday 30th of July, both Alan Sloan and Peter Heery are leaving the web team to move into new roles within the University. Alan is moving to the Kings Buildings to work as a senior computing officer in the Network team, and Peter is moving to the College of Medicine a...
Classics News System put Live on Website
The classics website now has a news system added to it. There is a RSS feed available for this system, and you can be kept up to date automatically with new articles using your RSS reader. You can view the news articles at ...
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New MSc in the City website
The webteam have just finished a new website in the School of Arts, Culture and Environment. The Msc in the city website was developed in close collaboration with the Head of Architecture Dr. Stephen Cairns, and the Programme Director for Cultural Studies Dr Ella Chmielewsk...
New Economic and Social History website
The web team has just completed a redesign of the Economic and Social History website for the School of History and Classics. Working closely with our academic colleagues within Economic and Social History, we created a brochure site promoting the undergraduate and postgradua...
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Search Engine Optimisation Guide
Many web users use search engines like Google to find information on the internet. The further up the list of results your site is, the more likely a user will look at your site. What is Search Engine Optimisation? Search Engine Optimisation is the name given...
Writing for the web Style Guide
Good writing is especially important to us as educators as our ability to communicate ideas is paramount. If the University of Edinburgh fails to get information across clearly, correctly and cohesively on its websites then why should anyone believe it does so on its courses? ...
Creating good web copy
Good web copy is similar to good print copy in that the aim of the copy and the audience are the writer`s two main considerations. While the aim of a detective novel is to entertain the reader, the aim of your site is to inform your user. The audience for the novel has time o...