Content Governance (how we support, maintain, and manage the website) can be a confusing topic. No fear, it is our goal introduce this topic to the campus community and leverage it to help us build a sustainable website. In order to do this, we’re looking at roles, processes, and workflows to begin mapping out what …
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Content Governance Planning
This week the Web Team packed up and headed out to Grand Rapids to spend a half-day collaborative meeting with Mighty kicking off our content governance planning and discussions. Content governance is a set of practices related to creating and publishing content that impacts how content is reviewed, who makes editorial planning decisions, and what to do …
Email Signature Generator
How does your email signature look? Wanting to give it a little sprucing up as well as make it consistent with what others are using at Hope? We’ve built a super slick HTML email signature generator (choose “Request”) which will provide you will a properly formatted and branded contact block to insert as your signature. Check …
Design Extensions & Front-End Development
We’re currently reviewing Design Extensions, which take the design concept we’ve chosen and further build it out into various unique page types and templates. It’s fun to see the design coming to life throughout various pages/sections! In addition, we wanted to give you a quick update on what’s coming next: We are scheduled to kick …
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Content Governance
You may have heard us talk about how we’re doing everything we can to make sure we’re tackling this website redesign “the right way.” We know it would be easier and quicker to slap a new pretty design on our existing site and call it good. However, taking a more holistic view of the project …
Parallax Effect
We were recently asked if we will be incorporating parallax effects into the new site. (Check out this amazing example from Sony that was shared). Our web design partner, Mighty, has definitely discussed and designed for this. While our new site won’t be as intense as the Sony example, we do intend to introduce a bit …
A Taste of Design
Thank you to the many faculty, staff, and students who have participated in the website design presentations over the past few weeks. We’re happy to hear so many are as excited as we are about the overall design direction of the site. We know not everyone was able to attend one of the web design …
Modern Design Concept
We are very excited to be moving in the direction of the “Modern” design! This concept is meant to reflect the liveliness and energy of Hope College. The details within the concept uphold the excellence of the college. The academic focus is presented in the photography, copy, and numbers. The typography is modern, introducing a …
Accessibility and Compliance
We recently received a question about if and how we were incorporating accessibility into the new site. We’re happy to share that accessibility is a big part of this redesign. We are working to have all of the new design templates W3C accessibility compliant. In addition, we are investing in new back-end tools (through our CMS, OU Campus) that …
Website Design Concepts
The time has finally come! We are getting our first look at website design concepts from Mighty. Keeping in mind that we seek to offer an excellent, interactive web experience for our identified audiences (of which prospective and current students are our most extensive visitors), we chose to explore web designs at three levels: conservative, …