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Regardless of what you think of the design—there's a proverb attributed to Picasso that sums it up nicely:
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Within one's own institution, I think the acceptable limit of copying is extended. In the race to get…
I wasn't meaning to criticize. :-)
The biggest one that strikes me right off are the horizontal layout of links on the right. People scan lists, links, etc. in a more vertical manner, following an F pattern.
Well it's been up at least a year (since it was reported "stolen" a year ago) and I would hope they did some kind of conversion impact tracking of the new layout.
What sorts of usability issues are you seeing?
Also interesting to me is that the homepage design was copied by our own bookstore, without our (Public Affairs Office) knowledge or input:
http://bookstore.brown.edu/
We're not sure if they did it because they thought it was a good solution for a…
Thanks Eric. :-) I was just about to point out that usability and accessibility aren't the same. I've spent several years reading research on usability, and while a relatively small percentage may not find trouble with the site's layout, the majorit…
While I like the design of Brown's homepage, I am also not a typical web user. I'm guessing that none of the folks on this site have the same issues with usability as most of our users. Susan makes a great point regarding the usability of Brown's ho…
The Brown home page actually degrades nicely when you disable JavaScript. The hartnell home page gives you a headache.
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- Employer?
- University of North Alabama
- Website:
- http://www.una.edu
- Personal Website:
- http://www.abstractrandom.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- design, css, planning
- What department or office are you in?
- University Relations
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Currently working on a redesign of the University's website. Responsible for all aspects of this redesign. I'm the only web person on staff currently.
- Number of students at your institution
- 7,300
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Hello,
I'm curious if anyone has used Ustream for holding online chats and/or webinars with prospective students? Thoughts?
Are there other applications/software I should check out other than Ustream?
Thanks.
We also have a link in our footer. "jobs@SAU"
Thanks for the recommendation! It's actually right here on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet….
Yes, we have a link in the footer of our home page, www.albany.edu
The absolute best place to start is with this book: Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson. In just 172 pages she covers the what, the how, the who and the why. It hits on making the business case for content, measurement, governance, et…
My colleagues and I are sketching out a new process for periodic content review of our university's entire website — and we'd love to hear how you do this.
I'm not talking about the kind of review that happens when new content is created or when it…
I added us!
A group for those interested in usability principles, practices, and testing.
This has come up for us recently as well and we are getting ready to add it in there. The page you land on will allow you to go to staff positions, student positions as well as faculty positions which are (of course) all separate!
Kristin,
I'm working on a project using Harris Connect to manage alumni relationships with SUNY Geneseo. Ning was considered but a more robust platform was chosen. Depending on what you want to do though Ning can be a great tool for smaller affinit…
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Please add me too: naveenatwal @ googlewave.com
Thanks.
Morehouse College invites applications for Multimedia Developer in the Office of Communications.
Job Duties: The multimedia developer reports to the Director of Public Relations and works with the web content manager and the web developer. The mult…
Our Public Affairs department is responsible for the rotating content on our university front page (Cal State Fullerton). Outside of the basic architectural links, news and events are the only things highlighted. Whenever someone wants something, th…
Thanks! Our senior web designer, Stephen Bell, made it. He's in this ning community somewhere. :)
We also have Employment Opportunites listed as one of our main links on our home page and on every page. We even have our Employment links broken down into two different areas. One of students "Employment-Students" and one for regular full-time jobs…
Hi all, I've just started a project to implement Harris Connect as an alumni portal/crm system and I'm looking for any success/horror stories that may be out there. Of most interest are any strategies that people have used for integration of Harris'…
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