Last September, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column on how to survive a website redesign for the December 2006 issue of University Business: “10 Tips to a Successful Website Redesign.†Michael L. Dame, Director of Web Communications at Virginia Tech shared these 5 tips at this time. Know your audience. Before we […]
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10 Tips to a Successful Website Redesign
My sixth (last one for this year) column for University Business is now available in the December issue as well as online: “10 Tips to a Successful Website Redesign†If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Don’t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS (use one of the […]
Live From HighEdWebDev06: Redesign Your College Website, Incrementally
That’s the idea Rose Pruyne from Penn State defended in her presentation “Incremental Design” at HighEdWebDev 06 in Rochester today. Nobody got a chance to blog about it as far as I know, but I was able to retrieve the presentation slides Rose shares through the conference delicious tag highedwebdev2006. I interviewed Rose for my […]
Live From HighEdWebDev06: How to Lower Costs and Increase Accessibility with Web Standards
Bryan Hantman of University of Maryland presented yesterdat a session at HighEdWebDev in Rochester titled “Setting the Standards: How Web Standards Lower Costs & Increase Accessibility.†Dimitri Glazkov, one of the HighEdWebDev guest bloggers, enjoyed this presentation a lot. This is Dimitri’s second post. Bryan Hantman of University of Maryland gave a good talk on […]
Ball State University is blogging its website redesign and CMS selection
Following in the footsteps of Ohio State University, Cornell University and Duke University among others, Ball State University has launched a blog dedicated to the relaunch of its website: Relaunching bsu.edu. Maintained by Nancy Prater, BSU University Web Coordinator, this blog will be used as the main communication channel to announce changes and collect feedback […]
Almost Live from EduWeb 2006: Why and How to Audit Your University Website
Kesha Boyce Williams attended “Auditing for Results,” a presentation given by Jon Mikel-Bailey (Wood Street, Inc.) at EduWeb earlier this week. Kesha sent this report What you should do: Examine your Web site – look at navigation, detail, general design, depth of information, clarity of information. Why you should do it: If you don’t do […]
Live from EduWeb 2006: Get Feedback Before AND After you Redesign your College Website
Drew Olanoff attended “The Usability Drive Homepage: Design a User-Centered Approach,” a presentation given by Matthew Winkel (The College of New Jersey) yesterday at EduWeb. Drew sent this report this morning. Matthew Winkel started off by talking about indirect and direct marketing techniques, but the main theme of his presentation was brand testing. User feedback […]
Live from EduWeb 2006 in Baltimore: Why and How to use CSS instead of Tables on your University Website?
Brian Hantman (University of MD, Baltimore) presented a session titled “Thinking Outside the Table: Designing the Websites with CSS and XHTML,†yesterday morning at the EduWeb Conference in Baltimore. Aba Blankson, a Webmaster at Cornell University, is one of the seven very nice people who agreed to share their notes with all of us who […]
Live from EduWeb 2006 in Baltimore: (Web) Project Management 101
Staci Roberts Beam, Director of Web Communications at Northwestern University presented this morning an interesting session at the EduWeb Conference in Baltimore titled “Web Projects: Formalize Your Efforts with Documentation and Research and Generate More Internal Support, Site Success.†Rachel Reuben, Director of Web Communication and Strategic Projects at the State University of New York […]
Duke University is blogging its website redesign
Following in the footsteps of others institutions such as Cornell University and the Ohio State University, Duke University has been blogging its website redesign for almost three months as initially announced in this post published on September 27, 2005: “Duke is redesigning its home page. The Office of News and Communications, which is leading the […]
(Almost) Live from Salisbury’s Web Communications and Strategies Conference: how to do user testing with $5 and 5 people
Even if it’s somehow easy to forget, we do design websites for users. So, why user testing isn’t a bigger part of our job? I know the answer and so do you: time and money, which are definitely limited resources in our field. We don’t have the kind of budget necessary to pay usability experts, […]
Ohio State University’s website redesign completed
I mentioned in the previous post “Blogging to redesign the website” that Ohio State University was using a blog to help redesign its website. Well, the big day has come, and the new (and very nice) redesign is now live: www.osu.edu [updated: now, the link works – sorry for that] Web users can still post […]
Website redesign blogs: instructive trips to memory lane
As explained in the previous post “Blogging the website redesign,” I really think blogs beat the traditional redesign committee’s status reports and meetings, because they give every stakeholder a chance to look at the design in the context it’s supposed to work – on a computer screen – and to give instant – yet articulated […]
Higher ed website redesign: how you can build your case
In my previous post “higher ed website redesign: why you should build your case,” I discussed how important it was to make a good case to “sell” the redesign to VPs and Website Stakeholders. I think the result-oriented approach is the most efficient to convince decision makers. By including as many measurable data points as […]
Higher ed website redesign: why you should build your case
People don’t like change – especially on THEIR website. Although you know it’s time to redesign your old graphic-intensive non-ADA compliant website launched 5 years ago, you’d rather live in fear of being featured on webpagesthatsuck.com than use the “R-word.†In the second part of the series “Why most university websites suckâ€, posted on her […]
From homepage to furniture: a new take on higher ed website design?
Champions of web standards and accessibility beware: today’s post may cause heart burnt, high blood pressure, insomnia and other side effects. Ohio University has just unveiled the new design of its website homepage. And, as you can see below, this design relies heavily on graphics to replicate… a student’s desk. As reported by Nick Claussen […]
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