The Job Announcements listings have been moved from the main site to a Job Board on the blog. This move allows us to automate many of the processes we used for the job announcements on the main site. We are using the WPJobBoard plugin for WordPress with some additional enhancements for extra fields and usability. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'About STCWDC Web Site'
Announcing the Chapter’s New Job Board
September 14th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
Tags: career, job announcement, Job Board, job hunt, job seekers, RSS feed, WordPress, WPJobBoard
APEX 2009 Grand Award Judges’ Comments
July 3rd, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
The APEX Awards attract many outstanding entries. Of the nearly 3,800 entries in APEX 2009, just 100 Grand Award Winners were selected
The judges’ comments for the APEX 2009 Grand Award winners are now posted at http://www.apexawards.com/apex2009grandawardcomments.htm
Here are the judges’ comments for the STC Washington, DC Chapter Web site:
“Good gods! This isn’t a site. It’s a [...]
Tags: APEX, Grand Award, judges' comments, winner
DC Chapter 2009 APEX® Grand Award Winner!
June 25th, 2009by Cyn · 2 Comments
OMG! We are proud to announce that the STC Washington, DC Chapter’s Web site won a rare Grand Award in the 2009 APEX® Awards for Publication Excellence in the "Web & Intranet Sites; Nonprofit Small Office" category! Information about the competition is available at http://www.ApexAwards.com/.
(Some of you may remember we won a 2005 APEX® Awards [...]
Tags: APEX, awards, excellence, Grand Award, grand award winner, publication excellence
Accessibility Enhancements to the Chapter’s Main Site
January 17th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
The alternate style sheet selections have been moved to the top navigation bar in the “Print / Switch Styles” pull-down menu. Modifications were made to the existing alternate style sheets for High Contrast, Audio, and Print to suit the new site design.
New alternate style sheets have been added. There are now three style sheets for [...]
Tags: accessibility, accessibility design, color blindness, colored background, Dyslexia, fluorescent lighting, glare, high contrast, lighting conditions, migraine headaches, page accessibility, reading text, style sheet, white background
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