We’ve received a handful of questions about site maps — the third element in our requirements to officially kick off your office or department’s site construction — so I thought I’d take a minute to explain a little bit more about what we’re looking for. The best way to do this is to follow an …
Category Archives: Website redesign
Hope College Web Style Guide
Download the Hope College Web Content Style Guide. We’ve all been there: You’re working on your department website and you can’t remember how to spell that building name. And is it the Philosophy Department or the Department of Philosophy? How do I make one of those backward-facing apostrophes for taking the 1 and the 9 …
Improvements to the Directory
Many of you have told us that you love the new Directory! If you haven’t checked it out yet, the Directory pulls together information about academic departments, campus offices, buildings, and faculty/staff in one place. Better yet, all of the information on the Directory is fed from our institutional database, to ensure updates and accuracy. …
Training for OU Campus users
Ready to start working on your department or office website? So are we! This month, we will begin connecting with every area of the college to plan, build and launch new sections of the website throughout the academic year. Here are the steps required for your department or office to get started: Attend an OU …
Submitting Events to the Public Website Calendar
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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Announcing New Hope Website Launched
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 …
Preparing for Phase One
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 …
Spotlighting our faculty and staff
Hope College has awesome people, and we want to tell their stories. All 768 of them. When planning the new website, we made sure it would showcase the great programs, facilities and students at Hope—but we also wanted to make sure we’re highlighting one of our greatest assets: The faculty and staff who make this …
Writing for the Web: Resources
We kicked off our Writing for the Web training today with the first of many presentations. More than 40 people attended (of the more than 100 who signed up), and we’re thrilled to see such an enthusiastic response from faculty and staff on campus. If you’re looking for extra copies for others in your department …
Writing for the Web
The team here at Public Affairs and Marketing is excited to launch a new training session, Writing for the Web. One thing we heard from the beginning of the website planning process is that many people on campus would like additional support for writing, editing and updating their department or office website. Some of you …