Our website features a new campus calendar, calendar.hope.edu. Following are some tips and steps to follow to help promote your events. Begin by making your campus room reservation through EMS (events.hope.edu). Here you can request catering, AV, video services, a specific setup, etc. In EMS, you can now request to have your event display on …
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We’re thrilled to share with you that the new Hope College website has launched and is now live! The new pages you’re seeing now are “phase one” sections for our initial public launch. These sections cover most of the areas you can access via the main navigation menu on the top of the page. What you’ll …
Wow, we’ve come a long way! Looking back on our website redesign timeline (spanning back to Spring of 2013) you can see a lot of ground covered. A new CMS, design partner, focus groups, user personas, site maps, style tiles, page strategies, wireframes, new staff, writing for the web training, employee profiles… and that’s just …
We’ve recently reached out to Department Chairs/Leaders, Office Managers, and Web Content Editors across campus to invite them to one of five sessions titled, “Your Next Steps for the new Website.” At these sessions we’re excited to provide a report on the progress of the website redesign project and to lay out specific next steps …
Many of you have been asking about the new Hope College website. Thanks for your interest and your patience as we work through such a massive project! In the next few weeks, we will be scheduling meetings for department chairs, office managers and others to lay out specific next steps and action items for the …
We’re pleased to share that three new staff members joined our team today. Elizabeth Council is our new Digital Strategist. She is joining us from RCP Marketing in Muskegon where she has served as a digital strategist and account manager for more than 20 clients including Muskegon Community College in addition to volunteering for TEDxMuskegon as …
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There’s nothing like the topic of “URL structure” to really get your adreneline pumping on a Monday morning, right? Alright, so perhaps it’s not the first thing on your mind, but it’s an important part of a website readesign project! We were recently asked if URLs will be changing during the site transition. Although some …
We wanted to share some exciting developments in how we’ll be resourced to continue the website redesign project as well as the long term support of the Hope College website. This week, we posted two new web related positions: a Digital Strategist and a Web Content Manager. You can learn more about these positions by …
There have been some changes to the CAMPUSMAIL system in the past year and we continue to plan for further improvements. What is CAMPUSMAIL? CAMPUSMAIL is the official email distribution system of the college. Your message can be sent to all employees or only faculty. What kinds of messages can go in CAMPUSMAIL? Your …
We are so proud of our work and relationship with our web design partner, Mighty. They recently redesigned their website and included a great case study of our work together. Check it out!
