More than 500 redesigned were submitted to eduStyle as redesigns last year.
That’s what discovered Stewart Foss, the driving force behind this web design gallery dedicated to higher ed websites, as he was working on his next webinar about higher ed redesign trends scheduled on February 16, 2010 (Registration is open until February 8, but if you sign up before February 2nd for the Web Redesign Boot Camp – you’ll get access to 4 extra webinars about web redesign at no extra cost).
With things changing so much – and fast -on the Web (social media, mobile Web, etc.), I’m wondering how many web redesign projects are under way or about to start in higher ed – and what the main reasons to redesign are in 2010.
If you work on a redesign (or are planning to), tell us why you redesign and when you plan to launch the new version of your website (even if it’s in several months) by posting a comment.
Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, VT is in the process of getting a new CMS and will be launching a new site hopefully this summer. The Web Redesign Committee will start meeting next month. Our website basically needs a fresh look, especially now that we have a new logo. The current system we have is not user-friendly and there are some functions I would like a new CMS to make available to us that we can’t do at present.
Redesign underway. Go live April/May. We are refocusing our site on prospective students – providing a single site containing all the information someone needs to know in order to make a decision to study at Charles Sturt University.
We’re looking to go mobile-friendly, and are researching responsive design instead of an application. The basic structure of our site is not bad, but the redesign will need to scale to different screens.