About the College website
What we're on with down in the web boiler room and beyond
The College enters a new academic year and enrolment is under way. Numbers are good despite the credit crunch. Website hits on factsheets and enquiries continue to rise, though overall hits have levelled off. I think this is not necessarily a bad thing - though big numbers are nice, it may be that some page clicks in the past were generated by people not being able to...
Registered the website with Cuil, which currently has to be done by sending them an email. Strangely they seem to be picking up a lot of our older page links, and not the new ones created in mid-May. Hopefully this will be sorted as their crawling gets established. Google seems to be catching up with our new links now, more than 2 months on....
We're still watching hits quite carefully, after the web redesign. Our internal hits records show visits up on last year, Google analytics shows them down for the month, though about the same this last week. We have about a third less pages on the new site, so we would expect page hits to go down, but visits is more worrying. It's possible that some...
Website updates June 08 week 4
27 June 2008 created list of venues on short course page that links through to short courses listed by venue with dates added Accommodation Leaflet to prospectuses page and accommodation page corrected text on How to Apply page amended errors report to just show internal linkage errors 26 June 2008 changed 'General' to show as 'General...
The Chorley Compost Gurus won the Recycling Award at Chorley’s first Smile Awards. The Smile Awards are like the Oscars, only for people who do good stuff in the Chorley community. They encourage households to compost their household waste and give advice to the public about green issues. The presentation took place on Thursday 26 June 2008 at the Town Hall, Chorley and featured...
Website updates June 08 week 3
20 June 2008 created an adwords ad for the landscape online degree, and a forwarding link Workbased pages now bringing up subject headings that use extra subject setting on factsheets 19 June 2008 took events out of search because it's showing old events, to fix and replace added extra subjects to Foundation Certificates factsheets changed FE...
