Helping researchers tell others about their research is an important part of our remit. Sometimes that’s by helping them create digital stories, sometimes through better use of social media and sometimes through a good old fashioned website. Steve describes here how he helped build a multilingual WordPress site for a research network spanning many institutions and countries. Read more
Netskills is known for it’s training, but that’s not all we do. Steve Boneham gives a sneak peak behind the curtains at Jisc Involve, an educational blogging platform supported by Netskills. Read more
Chris explains how technology helped him to write and publish a recent dissertation, putting into practice a lot of the tools and approaches that we talk about on Netskills workshops. Read more
We just added some of the training resources we use to support our WordPress training to Share, our content repository, for you to take, use and remix for free. Here Steve explains a little about how these materials will help you understand the potential of WordPress and how to get started with running your own installation. Read more
After launching Netskills Voices, we were pleased to see people adding the site to their favourites. However, we were less pleased to see that the icon representing the site was sometimes less than pretty. That was because we didn’t have quite the right combination of ‘favicons’ in place. In this post, Steve explains how we put that right. Read more
In supporting the Jisc involve service, Steve was given the challenge of merging two well-established Jisc blogs into one without annoying readers and losing subscribers. In this post he explains how we went about doing this. Read more
While WordPress makes it easy to get a site up and running, we wanted Netskills voices to be more than “just another WordPress site.” We thought we’d share some of our thinking about the design with you here, as well as the technical details of how it was implemented. We got Steve to write the post as he’s the WordPress geek who’s been in the shed working on this and we thought it was about time we let him out. Read more