Digital Content and Development
Taking a user-centred approach to digital development and content design.
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How we learnt to write the print prospectus
In the oh-so-innocent days of 2019, when A.I. was a sci-fi concept, X was still Twitter, and Corona was just a beer, we were asked to write the copy for the upcoming undergraduate prospectus, which would be printed and delivered...
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Beyond Borders - My Initial Months at the University
It's been just over two months since I started working with the Digital team as a developer. In the past, I mostly worked as a freelancer for a variety of institutions. I was given new prospects, new challenges, and new...
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Improving the in-page navigation
Some content types on bath.ac.uk are very information-dense and tend to be on the long side. To make navigating these pages easier, we provide a vertical in-page navigation which allows users to jump straight to the content they’re looking for....
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Digital Development: Quarterly Review Q2 2023
Delivered Here's what we delivered in Q2 of 2023. GA4 migration As anyone who uses Google Analytics will know (and maybe even a few who don’t), a change has been on the horizon. Google has been in the process of...
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Trial and navigation: animating the Navigation section
Our site header was previosly static. This meant it stayed at the top of the web page as the user scrolled down. We decided we wanted to change that, making it 'sticky', so that it followed the user as they...
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Five things we hate about FAQS
Anyone who’s been anywhere on the internet ever has seen an FAQs page. A list of questions that range from the broad and timeless: “How do I log in to my account?” All the way down to the horrifyingly niche:...
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Digital Development: Quarterly Review Q1 2023
Delivered Here's what we delivered in Q1 of 2023. Rotating the awards in the site footer To show the various accolades awarded to the University, we have set up an automatic 'rotation' for the awards in the site footer, meaning...
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Developing a new website search with Funnelback
Last year we launched an improved site search on bath.ac.uk. The improved search has a range of new features and is powered by the Funnelback Higher Education template, restyled to match our Lens design system. Our old site search was...
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