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 and will go live on September 15.
OSU web team has invited comments on its redesign blog (as it did back in 2005 – geez, do I sound like the higher ed blogger grand’ma when I say that) from the campus community and some of them are pretty harsh.
The new design requires a lot of scrolling down, which is a different take from what’s out there.
Not sure, if it was the right design decision though, as I didn’t even think about scrolling down and discovered the page was longer only once I took the screen shot.
It’s definitely a big change compared to the current design: