Jake Headley joins the SoM team: November, 2019
11/29/2019
Jake joined the UVA School of Medicine (SoM) web team in November of 2019. Previously, Jake worked as a User Experience Designer and Front-End Developer, for the hotel search engine…
New Resident Photos: Tips and Tricks
5/23/2019
It's that time of year again. New residents and fellows will soon be pouring in, and so will their photos. Unless they are optimally sized first, uploading large amounts of…
5/21/2019
Our team continues working to make the UVA School of Medicine websites easier to edit and more user friendly. We have reduced the need to use HTML coding through the…
4/19/2019
Currently, our team is in the process of making the SOM websites more user-friendly, easier to edit, and more accessible for those with disabilities. Throughout this process we may contact…
3/20/2019
New Way to Build and Manage Tables We have recently added a new plugin called “TablePress” to all SOM websites. TablePress makes creating and managing tables much easier than what…
Post Launch Update: Tuesday, February 26th
3/1/2019
All web editors can now log in and edit their sites. The login process is the same—just sign in on the bottom right of the page! Issues (to Resolve) We…
Kathleen Bids Farewell to the SoM
1/19/2019
I want to start by thanking each editor, past and present, of SoM websites. It has been an honor to usher in a new content management system, a new template…
Keeping Records of Content Updated after November 30th
11/21/2018
In our most recent SOM New Template Update, we explained how we will be copying existing web content to a development site (dev site) where we will begin building out…
SOM New Template Update: November 14th
11/14/2018
We continue to move forward on the new template for all School of Medicine sites and wanted to keep all editors and stakeholders up to date on our progress and…
Update: Adding Alt Text to Images
10/31/2018
Important Note About Adding Alt Text Adding alt text to images is an important part of bringing all our Websites into AA (double A) Accessibility compliance. We've recently discovered that…
