Last year, Eckerd College did a great and funny holiday video card targeted to prospective students and featuring its College President, Admissions and Financial Aid Dean and the Web Team, aka “The Web Dudes:” As Colin Fast from Red River College explained in an interview published in a previous post, Eckerd College’s card was the […]
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Want to get a chance to show off your web design skills and talents to your peers? Enter the 2008 HighEdWeb Conference Design Competition by January 21, 2008
As announced a couple of weeks ago on this blog, the new web design (and the logo) of the HighEdWeb Conference to be held in Springfield, MO in October will be created by the winner of a design competition open to higher ed web designers. The details of the competition have just been posted on […]
Rice University launches its redesigned homepage
It’s always the season for website redesigns… Rice University (Houston, TX) launched its redesigned homepage last Saturday: The redesigned home page includes a calendar area to better promote university events, banner space for promoting top Rice stories and a cleaner design for easier navigation. Gateway pages for undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff deliver audience-targeted news […]
From outsourcing email to outsourcing IT?
Today, Inside Higher Ed has a great well-researched and well-written piece about a trend that will change the face of IT departments on most campuses in a few years: “When emailed is outsourced.” (Don’t forget to share it with your IT folks!) In his article, Andy Guess, Mr. Technology at IHE, gives a very good […]
Let’s Build an Online Gallery of Crisis/Emergency “Lite” Web Page Templates for Higher Ed
Would you share your crisis ‘lite’ website homepage with your colleagues in higher education? Since the Virginia Tech Tragedy, we all have been building/updating the web template to be used in case of a crisis or an emergency. By nature, these web templates can’t be easily shared among different institutions. You don’t want the general […]
eduStyle will keep you updated about the state of higher ed web (re)designs
Benchmarking is the name of the game in higher education. No matter the type of projects you plan to work on, you (or your boss) will always need to see what’s done in others institutions. Website (re)designs are no exception to this rule, and that’s why eduStyle, the website that aims to provide inspiration for […]
Check out the results from a survey about CMS in higher education
A couple of months ago, Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at the University of California, Davis created a survey about CMS (as in Content Management System) in higher education. Elliot just emailed me to let me know that the results including answers from 129 institutions have just been published on his team blog: […]
Almost Live from HigherEdWebDev 2007: Use WordPress as a Mini-CMS in Your Next Project
The conference is now over, but Dimitri, one of this year’s guest bloggers has sent a few more posts about interesting sessions including this presentation about WordPress. Drew Geraets and Thomas Knoll wanted something lightweight, flexible, and easy to implement when they ventured on building their new site. Their CMS was bulky and not friendly […]
Almost Live from HigherEdWebDev 2007: Building a Cohesive Website through a Collaborative Process
The conference is now over, but Dimitri, one of this year’s guest bloggers has sent a few more posts about interesting sessions including this presentation by another guest blogger, Seth Meranda, and his colleagues from UNL. What happens when you bring open source philosophy to your campus redesign? Success, according to the team presentation by […]
Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Designing Compelling User Experiences
Yesterday morning, Beck Tench of Duke University lead an engaging presentation on new alternatives in strategic planning for the web. The session was covered by Jonathan Steffens. This is his third post. Beck begins the presentation posing a question: “what makes a user experience compelling†and humbly admits that she does not have the answer, […]
Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Making the case for resources for web services
Martine Lafleur, one of this year’s guest bloggers, covered the session presented by Doug Ruschman from Xavier University: “Making the Case for Resources for Web Services. This is Martine’s first post. Doug Ruschman from Xavier University made a solid case for resources for web services in his presentation this afternoon. Drawing from his own experience: […]
Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Testing Usability with parents and incoming students
Jonathan Steffens, one of this year’s guest bloggers, sat this morning in the first session presented by Lori Packer from the University of Rochester: “These Kids Today: Testing Usability with parents and incoming students.” This is Jonathan’s first HighEdWebDev post. Lori Packer of the University of Rochester, began HEWD with hat trick as committee organizers, […]
Interested in Web CMS adoption in higher ed? Take UC Davis online survey!
Reader and HEE member Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at UC Davis, has beaten me to the punch with his online survey about Web CMS in higher ed. This was indeed on my to-do list for September ;-) Anybody contemplating a CMS selection and implementation in higher education will kill for some fresh […]
3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Drew Stephens, Web designer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, from “College Web Guyâ€
Web designer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Drew Stephens was one of my guest bloggers at EduWeb in Baltimore last month. Since his blog, “College Web Guy,” showed up on my technorati radar a couple of months ago, I enjoyed his great posts. I even gave Drew a few tips to help […]
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