Prior to working at UNC, I have worked with WordPress from a design standpoint. However, now that I am here at UNC, I do a lot more work with the content that actually goes into the system. One thing that I have noticed is that the majority of the posters that I come in contact with fail to split their posts up into “introductory” and “expanded” chunks of text. Maybe it is because they really like having their entire posts available on their homepage, or maybe they just don’t know about WordPress’ page break tool called the <!–more–> tag.
Month: April 2008
Checked out edustyle? The site is described as a “web design gallery dedicated to higher education websites and powered by higher education web design professionals. Users submit, review, and comment on sites they like (or don’t like). The aim is for higher ed web professionals to learn from and be inspired by the work of their peers. Once a month two sites are selected as Noteworthy based on user votes and feedback.” Consider me inspired. Some of the featured work–particularly from smaller liberal arts schools and seminaries–is exceptional. Some crowd pleasers:
More often than not, we run into situations where we need to authenticate users against the UNC Onyen system. Whether it be a simple application used on an internal department network, or a very complex system that is publicly available. Onyen authentication solves the need to lock out the rest of the world but does not [easily] allow you to lock out everyone except a select number of individuals. There are ways to check if the user is part of a specific department or has a particular job function but that may be too broad for some applications.
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