Archive for October, 2008
Live review of higher education web sites #2
Working through technical issues, I changed my screen resolution to better match the HD requirements of some sites and I tried to buy a new mic at Target (We had gift certificates) but it totally sucked and didn’t work with my computer. Anyways next episode and three new sites reviewed. Check them out and let [...]
In: main · Tagged with: critique, educheckup, edustyle, live, process, review, site, video, web
EDU Checkup
And… We have a title! EDU Checkup is the name of the show. The focus is to check out education web sites and so an impromptu review of the site from a prospective students view. Domain is currently pointing to my personal site but that is only temporary. I am feverishly working on the new [...]
In: main · Tagged with: educheckup
Live review of higher education web sites
In the last few posts I talked about my passion to critique higher education web sites via EduStyle.net. I decided to take it one step further and actually show you what I look for when reviewing these sites. Again this is the first time I am doing this whole video thing, you actually get to [...]
In: main · Tagged with: critique, educheckup, edustyle, live, process, review, site, video, web
Flickr stats messed up today?
Logged into my Flickr stats today and noticed a HUGE spike in traffic. Weird thing is that no one photo was driving that spike. There is one photo that dominated the stats spike. It seems like a ton of photos just got 1-2 views each. Anyone else have this happen to them yesterday?
In: main · Tagged with: analytics, error, flickr, graph, issue, random, stats
Gauging univerisity homepages
When you have something soo visible that a committee has to be in control of its every pixel those pixels better be gold. In my 9-5 I see thousands of higher ed web sites and can cut right through the BS and know which ones are designed by real web workers and which ones are [...]
In: main · Tagged with: gauging, highereducation, homepage, prospective, students, university, users