Archive for the ‘Website Redesign’ Category

A new #highered skin job (not a redesign) for UF homepage

Did you get a chance to check out UF new homepage yet (scroll down for the screenshots)? It launched at the beginning of this week as announced in the news story published last week by the university. According to the story, this isn’t a web redesign per se as the project only covered the visual […]

A 3-month user-centered web redesign at Loyola University Maryland #highered

FACT: Web redesign projects don’t have to mean a hefty budget after 18 months of committee meetings. Last Spring I wrote about Juniata College’s 1-month no-committee redesign and that post got a lot of attention. So, when Amy Filardo, Director of Web Communications at Loyola University Maryland, emailed me, a few weeks ago, about the […]

Web Accessibility for #highered: Required, Not Optional

My latest University Business column is now available in the September issue as well as online (on the new UB website powered by Drupal!): “Web Accessibility: Required, Not Optional” In this column, I explain why you should focus on web accessibility ASAP. Not just because it’s the right thing to do for your users with […]

Analytics: The Holy Grail of Social Media in #highered?

My latest University Business column is now available in the June issue as well as online: “Analytics: The Holy Grail of Social Media? A year of growth for measuring social media activity” In this column, I take a look at how some institutions use web analytics to inform their website redesign projects and share 3 […]

Top 10 #highered websites ranked by EDU Checkup scores

As we’ve seen last Friday with some of the amazing redesigns done for April’s Fool Day, we have some very talented web professionals working on higher ed websites. Every Wednesday, in my Higher Ed Experts email newsletter (not susbcribed yet?), I share the top 5 most popular websites of the week at eduStyle.net, THE higher […]

Top fishy #highered homepage web redesigns for April’s Fool Day

April’s Fool Day is upon us and up until now I’ve been really impressed by the creativity put into a few higher ed web redesigns. This year, some web teams have been given A LOT of liberty to do amazing and funny homepage redesigns. Thinking about it, wouldn’t it be nice if a website redesign […]

Web Redesign Wisdom for #highered: 3 tips from Nick DeNardis (EDUCheckup & Wayne State University)

Nick DeNardis’ middle name should be Redesigning. Whether he works on redesigns with his team at Wayne State University or reviews a higher ed website for his video blog EDUcheckup, Nick is a true web redesign giant in higher education, or a web rock star if you prefer (on the top of being a nice […]

Web Redesign Wisdom for #highered: 3 tips from Matt Herzberger (FIU)

A website redesign is one of the toughest web projects you will ever tackle in higher education: everbody wants to be on the homepage, nobody wants to write the content and it’s just a lot of work. Matt Herzberger has survived many web redesigns including the major project he and his team at Florida International […]

A 1-month no-committee web redesign for Juniata College Homepage #highered

Spring is the season of homepage redesign in higher ed! After my post about the University of Bath earlier this week, I’d like to highlight today the homepage redesign done at Juniata College (If you’re wondering why I keep writing about Juniata College, wonder no more. They keep pitching me via email their latest projects. […]

Web Redesign with a Success Metrics Guide in #highered: The University of Bath’s New Homepage

Bath University launched its newly redesigned homepage last week. The new homepage was made available last Monday as part of a soft launch and the final switch occured on Saint Patrick’s Day. This is a very nice example of a redesign entirely done in-house, relying on the kind of iterative approach Nick DeNardis will talk […]

Why WordPress can be the right CMS for #highered websites

In higher education, the CMS question is a million-dollar one. Well, maybe not literally, although choosing the wrong Web content management system can result in costs and ineffencies worth millions of dollars. A CMS that isn’t used by content contributors across campus doesn’t do any good to an insitution, which explains why ease-of-use is often […]

1-1-1 Express Book Review: Clout, the Art and Science of Influential Web Content by Colleen Jones

The plan for my next 1-1-1 Express Book Review was to review Kristina Halvorson’s “Content Strategy for the Web,” but Tim Nekritz did such a good job in his review that I’ll just skip it and go straight to the next book on my list: Clout by Colleen Jones. I first heard about this book […]

Content Strategy in Higher Ed: How a Web Content Audit helped Ithaca College

With Kristina Halvorson’s Master Class coming up soon (in just 8 little days ;-), I’ve been looking for interesting examples of content strategy at work in higher education. After the UB School of Medicine featured last week, let’s look this week at how web content strategy helped Ithaca College rethink and revamp its Financial Aid […]

Content Strategy in Higher Ed: How Page Tables helped the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

With Kristina Halvorson’s Master Class coming up soon, I’ve been looking for interesting examples of content strategy at work in higher education. When I saw that the University at Buffalo was looking for a Content Strategist, I had to learn more about their plans and initiatives. According to David Anderson, Director of Strategic Digital Communications […]

Shouldn’t your next higher ed web project be a Content Redesign?

I believe it should. What do I mean by a “Content Redesign?” Something quite simple and complex at the same time. Every 3 to 4 years, most universities and colleges (well, at least those with some budgets left) embark in major web redesign projects. After many discussions and meetings, your web committee finally gives the […]

Collegewebeditor.com gets a new look for Christmas

While you were wrapping your holiday presents and baking your cookies, I finally got a few hours to set up a new theme for my beloved blog. I’ve chosen a design that is reader-friendly (pretty good idea, isn’t it?), clean and light: BigFeature. Mike Richwalsky used this theme for JCU Magazine – and as soon […]