Author Archives: aharris

Upgraded to 2.7

If you’re a blog user, you’ll see that we’ve updated to the latest version. Quite a change of interface, but hopefully a good thing for all.
If you want to know more about the latest version and how to use it, try this post, introducing the ‘Coltrane’ upgrade’ on the wordpress site.

Print it (if you must!)

Not that we really recommend printing web pages, but we’ve just updated the CSS for the unimelb-sandbox template, adding some print friendly styles. It really did look pretty awful in IE!

A new look for your blog

One of the nice things about a blog is that you can change the way it looks very easily.
We’ve just added a new theme, imaginatively called ‘uniblogs’, which site admins can activate in the ‘Presentation’ tab of their site’s admin interface. This new theme also uses the Sandbox theme as it’s basis, but this time [...]

Gathering stats for your blog

We all like to know who’s been reading our stuff, so here are a couple of methods that you can use to view your web statistics.
Google Analytics
Yes, even though you don’t have control over the template in our wordpress MU installation, you can still insert your own google analytics code.
In the ‘Presentation’ tab of the [...]