A Tale of Code, Coffee, and Coming Home After a productive stretch in Information Technology, the UTC Web Development Team has returned to Communications and Marketing—and they’re unpacking their laptops, caffeine habits, and years of tech wisdom like seasoned travelers coming home from a long adventure. During their time in IT, the team gained valuable…
Byte-Sized Briefs: Nov. 2025
A PDF Walks Into a Website… What’s the deal with PDFs? Everybody’s got one! During our big website migration, we found out folks have been uploading PDFs like Oprah giving away cars—“You get a PDF! You get a PDF!” The problem isn’t that it takes long to upload—it’s that there are so many of them.…
The Great Web Roundup
When WordPress Rode into Drupal Country Well, partner, on October 25, we saddled up and pulled off another big move — blog.utc.edu finally rode into the same hosting sunset as www.utc.edu. After years of livin’ on different ranches (servers, if you’re fancy), these two digital cowpokes are now together at last! Cue the tumbleweed and…
The Family Tree of Navigation
Sidebar Menus Reveal Their Roots The UTC website just got a little more ancestral. Our sidebar navigation now proudly shows a page’s “parent” link when you’re viewing one of its “children”—because every good family deserves to stay connected. Before this update, wandering deep into a department’s pages felt a bit like showing up at a…
Say It with Pictures… and Words
The Art of Alt Text You’ve heard the saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words,” right? Well, not if your Wi-Fi flakes out or you’re using a screen reader. Then it’s worth exactly zero—unless you’ve added alt text, that magical little sentence behind the scenes that makes your image make sense. Alt text isn’t just…