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 experience in infrastructure, security, and all the behind-the-scenes…
Byte-Sized Briefs: Nov. 2025
Students Wanted: Three Open Spots. One Great Team. The Web Team is looking for three shining stars to join the team as Student Web Content Editors. These behind-the-scenes semi-pros keep utc.edu from turning into a digital attic worthy of Storage Wars, making sure pages stay polished, links behave, and requests don’t drift off into the internet…
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…
Code, Coffee, and a Whole Lotta Collaboration
UTC’s Open Source Camp Rocks Chatt The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sure knows how to throw a camp—just swap the tents and bug spray for laptops and coffee! On November 7–8, UTC co-hosted Open Source Camp Chattanooga 2025 with ChaDUG (Chattanooga Drupal Users Group), turning the campus into a buzzing hive of tech folks,…
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…
Editor Spotlight: April Cox
For more than two decades, April Cox, Director of Creative Services in the Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, has played a pivotal role in how the university presents itself to the world. Within EMSA, Cox collaborates with departments across campus to market and promote their programs, events, and student resources—while also designing creative…