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 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…
Content Tip: Add a News Widget!
The UTC News Widget automatically pulls the latest stories from the UTC News blog directly into our website, keeping content fresh and relevant without having to manually update. Designed to showcase campus achievements, research breakthroughs, student success, and more, the news widget is filtered by specific programs, colleges, or topics—making it easy to deliver targeted news to…
Good file management is like good housekeeping…
…no one notices it until it’s missing. As we move to our new host environment, the UTC Web Team is evaluating file storage and making some adjustments and recommendations. Storing large files directly on a website consume valuable server space and can dramatically slow down page load times, leading to a poor user experience and…
Content and Layout Tips
Content Tips Did you know? Hover cards on desktop turn into sleek tile cards on mobile! (Everyone knows you can’t hover with a finger!) To keep things smooth for users across all devices, make sure every section is fully packed with info and that your call-to-action buttons are crystal clear. Those buttons are front and…