Presentation from 22nd July workshop session at Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008. Skip to slide 41 for my BarCamp session "10ish five-minute ways to improve your website".

1. Stuff what we’re doing at Edge Hill University Michael Nolan http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices

2. “ See what a small, centralised web team can deliver without a £1 million CMS! “ More buzzwords than you can shake a stick at and not afraid to get technical .”

3. 1 ½ hours

4. You really don’t want to hear me talk non-stop for that long

5. “ Interactive” Workshop

7. Who are you?

8. Where are you?

9. Where do you sit? Marketing Academic IT Services

10. Areas of expertise Uber-Developer Manager Content / Marketing

13. “ For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear”

15. How do we go from here…

16. … to here?

17. Hi from Edge Hill University

18. Blogs

19. Blogs

20. Blogs

21. Forum

22. Specially written content

23. Online applications

25. In The Beginning…

26. Disparate systems

27. GO 1.0 – September 2006

28. GO 2.0 – September 2007

30. Caution! Ranting Likely!

31. June 2006 Design

32. March 2008 Design

33. Content Management Systems

34. Systems to Manage Content?

35. News

36. Events

37. eProspectus

38. Search

39. Binding it all together

41. 10ish five-minute ways to improve your website

44. 1: Microformats

47. 2: Feed Autodiscovery

49. 3: Search autodiscovery

50. Allow visitors to search from the browser

53. 4. Minimise JS & CSS with YUI Compressor

54. 5. Enable gzip compression

57. 6. Add hint text to search boxes

60. 7. Optimise page loading

61. YSlow

63. 8. Sell your soul to Google

64. Stop using Webalizer, AWStats etc

65. Google Alerts to track the Interweb

67. 9. Customise 404 error pages

70. 10. Any suggestions?

72. The End Michael Nolan [email_address] +44 1695 584195 http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices