5 Examples of Responsive Toggle Navigation in Higher Ed

For the last 2 year’s we’ve been collecting gobs data on navigation in higher ed. We looked at over 2000 college and university homepages over a period of two years, from 2011-2013. That data is foundation which our latest publication is built on, the 2013 Report on Navigation Trends in Higher Ed. As we prepare [...]

Q & A with Bates College – 2012 Best Overall Website

  Bates College was the winner of the Best Overall Website (both People’s Choice and Judged) and the People’s Choice winner for Best Homepage in this year’s eduStyle Awards. We connected with Ethan Wright-Magoon, the Digital Creative Director at Bates, to ask him and his team a few questions about how the site came about. [...]

Print style sheets: 4 good examples and how they could be great

I noticed on Twitter a tweet from Adrian Roselli: 4 of 5 @eduStyle higher-ed RWD award nominees have no/poor print styles: printshame.com/search/label/e… Voting closes in 8 days: edustyl.es/MEUk7w — Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) July 19, 2012 I’m glad he brought it up. Honestly, in developing the list of nominees, we don’t evaluate the print style sheets. Maybe [...]

The 2012 eduStyle Awards Nominees

We’re pleased to announce the nominees for the 2012 eduStyle Awards, sponsored by Demand Creativity. This year marks the 5th anniversary of the eduStyle Awards. We have moved many of the categories up to 5 nominees from 3. So this year there are 73 sites nominated in 20 categories. The nominees represent 53 schools. To [...]

EDU Checkup: Purdue University, Henderson State University

Another week, another two site experience reviews. Although I give scores to a website based on visuals, information and code, there is so much more that goes in to those scores. The overall experience weighs heavily in how the numbers come out. The first site this week, Henderson State University, although recently redesigned, it didn’t [...]

EDU Checkup: Langara College, Everett Community College

The two sites this week gave us insights in to the two ends of the higher ed Web. The first, Langara College had a different layout than I have ever seen before. The site felt ultra modern in the layout, typography and choice of colors. The homepage only presented the important items, if it wasn’t [...]

EDU Checkup: University of Northern Iowa, Texas State Technical School

Wrapping up another week with two site reviews and a lot of insight. The first site, University of Northern Iowa looks like it came out of 2005. The site was overwhelmed with too much content on the homepage and not enough breathing room to make it scannable. The boxy style was not inviting and made [...]

EDU Checkup: University of Maryland University College, Bridgewater College

Wrapping up this week on EDU Checkup I first reviewed University of Maryland University College and was presently surprised to see some features that I have never encountered before on a highered website. The first was a “test drive course” feature where prospective students can take a course for free in exchange for some personal information. The [...]

EDU Checkup: Boston University, Grantham University

The first week of 2012 started off on a shaky note but then redeemed itself with the second site. The ten second test for Grantham University got off to a rocky start, I was immediately presented with a pop up that took over the entire screen. Before I could even learn what they are about they popped up a request [...]

EDU Checkup: International Academy of Design & Technology, The Juilliard School

The last two weeks I was only able to review one video each, so this is a two week wrap up. The first site, International Academy of Design & Technology, looked very impressive at first, everything was shiny and appeared to be well put together. But as I dove deeper into the site I realized [...]