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 …
Category Archives: Website redesign
Website and New Team!
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 …
URL Structure
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 …
Adding to the team
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 …
Mighty Case Study
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!
What is Web Content Governance anyway?
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 …
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 …
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 …