About
I am the Technical Director and developer with the Web Team at the University of Notre Dame. The opinions on this site are my own and most certainly do not represent the views of Notre Dame.
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Bio
Erik Runyon, Technical Director for ND Creative at the University of Notre Dame, has been developing websites for fun and profit since 1995, and joined the university in 2007. Erik enjoys chatting and writing about web standards, performance, and accessibility. Not necessarily in that order.
Past Presentations
- Roll for sanity: Surviving the ever-expanding web feature bestiary, Digital Collegium 2025, September 2025
- CSS is Awesome, HighEdWeb 2024, September 2024
- Getting to Know Google’s Core Web Vitals, HighEdWeb 2021, October 2021
- Moderator for the Web performance round table, DrupalCon North America 2021 - Higher Education Summit, April 2021
- Evaluating and Fixing Website Performance, HighEdWeb 2020, October 2020
- Improving Web Performance in a Mobile World, Huddle 2019, July 2019
- Why and how to set a performance budget for your higher ed website, Higher Ed Websites Conference 2019, Jun 2019
- Performance Still Matters, HighEdWeb 2018, Oct 2018
- Modern CSS Layouts (workshop), HighEdWeb 2018, Oct 2018
- Improving Web Performance in a Mobile World, Digital Summit Detroit 2017, Sept 2017
- At Your Service - The Next Generation of Offline Websites, HighEdWeb 2016, Oct 2016
- Beyond Offline with Service Workers, Local Variables, May 2016
- At Your Service - The Next Generation of Offline Websites, HighEdWeb Michigan, May 2016
- At Your Service - The Next Generation of Offline Websites, ConvergeSE, April 2016
- Web Storage & Service Workers, RWD Summit, March 2016
- Taking the Web Offline, Frontend Conference Zurich, Video, August 2015
- Taking the Web Offline, Breaking Development, June 2015
- The Modern Web’s <img> Problem, Front End Design Conference, May 2015
- Taking the Web Offline, Local Variables, Video, November 2014
- Taking the Web Offline, HighEdWeb 2014, Oct 2014 (Best of Track winner)
- Before the @mq: Making the decisions that make a site responsive, HighEdWeb Michigan, May 2014
- Before the @mq: Making the decisions that make a site responsive, RWD Summit, April 2014
- Before the @mq: Making the decisions that make a site responsive, Breaking Development Conference - San Diego, Video, July 2013
- RWD and its Impact on HigherEd, University of Wisconsin Web Conference, June 2013
- Rebuilding a University Homepage to be “Responsive.” Twice. In Less than a Year., HighEdWeb Michigan, May 2013
- Rebuilding a University Homepage to be “Responsive.” Twice. In Less than a Year., RWD Summit, April 2013
- Rebuilding a University Homepage to be “Responsive.” Twice. In Less than a Year., .EDU Guru Summit, March 2013
- Rebuilding a university homepage to be “responsive”. Twice. In less than a year., HighEdWeb, Video, October 2012 (Best of Track winner)
- Building a University Website with RWD (Responsible Web Development), Web Conference at Penn State, June 2012
- Mobile Web, Notre Dame Campus Communicators Brown Bag, February 2012
- Feeding the Beast, HighEdWeb, October 2011
- The Many Faces of Mobile, CASE Indiana, April 2011