Matt Sharkey

Front-end Web Developer, Strategic Communications and Marketing

Collaborative Branding: Leveraging StratCom’s Hosted Brand Assets for Illinois Websites

Tags: Matt Sharkey, Session, Sydney Flowers, Todd Mette

Learn to effectively use the Hosted Brand Assets to maintain brand consistency and ensure accessibility. We’ll review examples of how we are using the assets across various use cases and provide strategies for implementation in your own projects. Discover how we are working with WIGG and other campus groups to refine and improve our brand […]

Campus website theme updates

Tags: Laura Hayden, Matt Sharkey, Melissa Waller, Nate Baxley

At the last IT Pro Forum, you heard about the new campus website brand standards. Now hear about the new developments that have happened in the last 6 months. Many new features, improved designs, and more WordPress theme options and a new Drupal theme and framework. Also learn about the webtheme.illinois.edu website where you can […]

Tools and techniques for developing shared web components libraries

Tags: Matt Sharkey

In 2020, a group of designers and developers from UIUC began work on a library of web components, a set of reusable pre-made building blocks for creating websites. We wanted to make it easier for everyone on campus to build sites that were accessible, usable, and on brand. Since then, we’ve launched several versions of […]

Cross-Unit Collaborations — When things just have to get done

Tags: Cordelia Geiken, Laura Hayden, Matt Sharkey, Melissa Waller, Nate Baxley

There are many great committees and groups on campus that have been formed with formal charters and pre-negotiated deliverables. However, sometimes you need to bring people together quickly to work on a problem and create a solution. The Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) is a group that was formed completely organically and has now helped […]

Delivering Consistent Web Design Templates Across Multiple Platforms

Tags: Cordelia Geiken, Laura Hayden, Matt Sharkey, Melissa Waller, Nate Baxley

There are a large variety of web publishing situations across campus today. With the push from the Chancellor last year to adopt the new branding standards, many units are searching for a way to bring their websites into compliance. The WIGG efforts have created branded themes for WordPress and Drupal and made those available to […]