Laura Brown – University of Birmingham Blog Service

Social media images

Suggested featured image sizes and advice for sharing on social media.

The Birmingham Blogs template uses FontAwesome to provide social icons. It’s also available for you to use in your posts. Add an icon to your text Find the icon you’d like to use and take a note of the code next to it. Open the text editor tab in your post and type in: <i … Continue reading “FontAwesome icons”

Google analytics – custom reports

Create a custom report to view only your blog statistics.

Google analytics

Google analytics is included with all Birmingham Blogs; find out how to request access.

Embedding Getty images

Instructions for adding high quality images to your blog using the embeddable Getty archive. (Sorry, these are not suitable for featured images).

Accessibility checklist

We’ve written an checklist to help you keep your accessible. It includes advice and tips on easy ways to make sure you’re not excluding visitors.

Accessibility and your blog

We aim to make our websites accessible to all visitors, regardless of ability or disability. This means your blog needs to be presented in a way that doesn’t create barriers to your visitors. This article talks about things to consider when you’re writing your posts.

Copyright and your blog

Your website, blog and social media posts should be treated as a publications, and you should apply the same rules for copyright as you do for ‘normal’ publishing. This post talks about whats covered by copyright and how to stay on the right side of the law.

Get listed in “Our blogs”

If you’d like your blog to be listed in “Our Blogs” just let us know and we’ll get you set up. Contact us