That’s a pretty innovative way to deal with the put-me-on-the-homepage syndrome all higher ed web designers have to face when it’s time to redesign a university/college website.
No fighting to find out which links to put there? Just go with what the web users want!
Beautiful, don’t you think so?
The new redesign is available as a preview [...]
Higher Ed Experts was officially launched on April 23, 2007.
It was supposed to go live on April 17, but it just didn’t feel right to do it as scheduled after the tragedy that stroke Virginia Tech. As you can imagine, I had many sleepless nights in April 2007 working on the launch of this new [...]
As announced in my first post about these awards, the nominations for best websites, web projects and blogs are now open and will close on April 30, 2008.
So, here is what you need to do if you want to nominate a website or a blog:
If a site is in the eduStyle gallery
Create an eduStyle account [...]
I’ve just found out that the newly redesigned website - a design signed Jim Welch, an Admissions Counselor for Missouri State University - of the HighEdWeb conference is now live:
This design was the winning entry of the contest launched to replace the old coffee mug theme.
That’s definitely a BIG change, don’t you think?
So, go [...]
I haven’t picked my dress yet for the walk on the red carpet, but I’m really excited to be part of this great initiative officially launched today by Stewart Foss, the founder of eduStyle - Stewart who also presents today the first webinar of “Website Redesign Boot Camp” about top trends in higher ed redesigns.
So, [...]
This morning, I received a few emails asking if it was still possible to register for the February 19-21 webinar series about website redesign (the initial registration deadline was yesterday).
As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Thursday (Feb 14) at 8PM ET - hey, the perfect gift for your Valentine [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post about new initiatives in the higher ed designer community, John Strubel, Higher Ed Experts member and Web developer at Charleston Southern University, has been working very hard on a new website targeted to university web designers: eduDesigners.com. I’ve been watching the site developed over the past couple of [...]
Website redesigns can be very, very scary projects.
People don’t like change, especially on “their” homepage.
That’s why you should prepare as much as possible before jumping into a website redesign (whether it’s for a university, college, department or even an office).
You can find some tips in a column I wrote for University Business in [...]
Here’s a quick reminder for you: the deadline of the design contest for the HighEdWeb Conference is approaching very, very fast.
You can submit your competition entry for the logo and the website of this great conference to be held in Springfield, MO in October until this Monday at noon (ET? CT? PT?).
Want to learn more [...]
While UMR will officially become MST on January 1st, the new website has just been launched and is now live at www.mst.edu (read my previous post about the topic).
BEFORE
AFTER
This morning, I asked Andrew Careaga, director of communications at Missouri S&T, why they decided to do the switch today, just before the holiday break and how [...]
