The Web and Internal Communications office maintains a SharePoint site that hosts files linked from NIU websites. You can request a folder within our SharePoint...
Having accurate, up-to-date information on your NIU webpages is an important way to build trust with your audience. If a user comes to your site...
People read differently online, quickly scanning webpages instead of reading word by word. Along with headings and bulleted/numbered lists, links are one of the elements...
In order to comply with legal requirements and provide an effective user experience, the web team will no longer remediate and/or upload inaccessible PDFs to...
As you might know, PDFs can be problematic for our online audience. It can be difficult to ensure that PDFs are accessible to all visitors....
As of July 1, 2024, the web team will no longer create, support or host new online forms in Formsite. In the past, this platform...
NASA. ASAP. HR. Some acronyms are so familiar they seem universal. We forget how dependent they are on context and audience. If you’re at the...
Spend enough time in areas of the internet devoted to media design, and you’ll eventually hear about “the fold.” In particular, staying above it. A...
Graphs, charts and other methods of visualizing data can help people understand complicated information at a glance. However, they’re only effective for those with full...
The HighEdWeb Association’s 2022 Accessibility Summit took place online this past July. Several members of the web team benefited from attending the virtual presentations. We’re...