Along with Mighty, we’ve been working hard to craft a new site-map for all of hope.edu. A site-map is a list of all of the pages in a website, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This is an important step, as it will help us better understand how all of our content will be structured and relate …
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We are beginning to work through a first draft of a site map for the new Hope website. A site map will serve as a plan for the content organization for each department’s information and communication via the web – and our site as a whole. We’re asking a handful of faculty members to meet with …
In the past few weeks we (along with Mighty, our website design partner) have been learning more about our identified website audiences so we can better communicate with them. This week we’ve been holding a set of workshops, “Building Your Stories through the Web.” At these sessions we are: Previewing exciting new changes to how …
Phase one of Research & Identification is nearing completion, and we are very excited to be moving forward into the Content & Design Strategy phase. During this phase, Mighty will be proposing a new site map and information architecture for the site, and we will begin exploring a few different design directions through style tiles. Style …
Who are our website users and what do they want to do? Those are the questions we are attempting to answer with the help of our web partner, Mighty. This week we got the first look at our User Personas and Scenarios. These are fictional “people” who have been created based on real-life audiences and …
This week, our web design partner, Mighty, presented their findings and summary of the stakeholder interviews that were conducted. This will be helpful in our planning moving forward. There were some major themes that came out of these discussions which include ideas/thoughts related to KnowHope, campus calendar & events, tickets, registration & advising, department pages, …
Thank you to the many faculty, staff, students, and others who shared your insight and helped us to make our website design focus groups and open forums a success! We are so grateful for your participation with our web design partner, Mighty. In total, 20 focus groups and 3 open forums were conducted with over 150 …
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We’re excited to share that our friends at The Hope-Geneva Bookstore now have generic Hope College letterhead and matching #10 business envelopes featuring the new Hope logo in stock! For a limited time, the old Hope College #10 envelopes will still be available. Departments are encouraged to use these for any mailings generated on remaining stock …
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The Web Team and Integrated Marketing have continued progress on the Hope College Website Redesign Project. We’ve previously selected a new college-wide content management system (OmniUpdate) and we have selected a new local web design partner to help us with the next phase. The firm, Mighty who is based in Grand Rapids, will bring a …
The Web Team has been hard at work for many months searching for the right partner to come alongside us for the website redesign project. We began by writing a Request for Information, which we sent to about a dozen design firms, both local and non-local. After reviewing all of the responses, we narrowed our …
