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Eight good practices for a web content audit

23 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

We recently wrote about websites suffering from digital bloat. This week we’re looking at best practices around content audits.

Technical Service Bulletin Week 43 - Page titles and metadata

21 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

Page titles and metadata are used by search engines to rank pages in search results. Find out more about them in our technical service bulletin this week.

Accessibility Bulletin Week 42 – Domino’s Pizza non-ruling, and more.

17 Oct 2019, 3 p.m.

This week’s accessibility bulletin is out, and lots has been talked about this week. More on the Domino’s Pizza case, UK Central Government compliance levels and best practices for accessibility.

Accessibility Across UK Central Government

17 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

We’re publishing a State of the Nation report that assesses the progress that UK Central Government organisations are making to ensure that their websites are accessible. Public Sector Bodies are legally responsible for their website meeting accessibility requirements, even if they have outsourced their website to a supplier.

Act now to prevent mixed content on your website being blocked by Chrome

16 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

Google is changing it's security settings in their Chrome browser would automatically block mixed content. Find out how Sitemorse can help identify pages with mixed content.

Technical Service Bulletin Week 42 - Downloading Heartbeat Monitoring History

15 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

Heartbeat is the uptime and availability monitoring system from Sitemorse. This week in our technical service bulletin, we’re looking at how to download the monitoring history data.

We are having a new CMS... - so what, visitors don't know this - actions now drive improvement.

9 Oct 2019, 9:50 a.m.

There are almost always improvements you can make to your website and its content that are not wholly dependent on your CMS. Use Sitemorse to focus on a programme of continuous improvement. We are having a new CMS...-so what, visitors don't know this-actions now drive improvement.

Clarity, knowledge and engagement: Working with your digital team

9 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

Digital teams rely on their members to deliver strong digital experiences including content is of high quality and fully compliant with the law. So what can digital teams do to make sure they are able to fulfil their roles?

Technical Service Bulletin Week 41 - Sharing reports with other users

7 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

Reports from Sitemorse can be shared with different users or organisations. This week’s technical service bulletin goes into the detail of how to share a report.

Accessibility Bulletin Week 40 – how can website accessibility best be addressed?

5 Oct 2019, 8:05 a.m.

This week’s accessibility bulletin is out, and lots has been talked about this week. Are UK Local Government authorities meeting accessibility standards? How website accessibility affects your online business and more.

Accessibility Across UK Local Authorities

4 Oct 2019, 4:48 p.m.

Public Sector Bodies are legally responsible for their website meeting accessibility requirements, even if they have outsourced their website to a supplier. Sitemorse, in collaboration with Socitm, are publishing a State of the Nation report that assesses the progress that UK Local Authorities are making to ensure that their websites are accessible.

How to reduce digital bloat on your website

2 Oct 2019, 9 a.m.

Out-of-date pages, ancient PDFs, old news items, microsites from long-expired campaigns and newsletters that nobody reads leads to extreme “digital bloat”, so how do you tackle this?

Technical Service Bulletin Week 40 - Benefits of Sitemorse CMS Integration (SCI)

30 Sep 2019, 9 a.m.

INCMS enables seamless publishing control from within your CMS provider. This week Helen Grimbly, is looking at how INCMS works and the benefits.

Accessibility Bulletin Week 39 – Beyoncé, Accessibility Statements and Priorities

26 Sep 2019, 3 p.m.

This week’s accessibility bulletin is out, and lots has been talked about this week. The deadline has come for UK Public Sector bodies to publish an accessibility statement, Hotels INDEX results have been published and the Beyonce case has been looked into.

Hotels – Is Accessibility the top of their to do list?

25 Sep 2019, 1:22 p.m.

The results of the Q3 2019 Hotels INDEX have been released. Have sites improved, can we sites making progress towards accessibility compliance?

Technical Service Bulletin Week 39 - Assessing pages in an Intranet or behind a firewall

23 Sep 2019, 9 a.m.

Sitemorse isn’t just limited to assessing live content available to the public, we can also assess pages behind a firewall or in an Intranet. Find out more in this weeks technical service bulletin.

Global Top 250 Retailers / UK Retail 500 scoring poorly for accessibility

20 Sep 2019, 9 a.m.

The results of both the 2019 Q3 Global Top 250 Retailers INDEX and UK Retail 500 INDEX have been released this week. We’re summarising the results of both sectors this week to see how the retailers are fairing in terms of accessibility.

Accessibility Bulletin Week 38 – court cases continue in the US and a new service in the UK

19 Sep 2019, 3 p.m.

This week’s accessibility bulletin is out, and with more talk of cases in the US should organisations be taking note and getting themselves compliant? We’re looking at these cases aswell as a new service launching in the UK.

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