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 …
Category Archives: Website redesign
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, …
Guest Blog Post: Leo Herzog, CIT
Hello! My name is Leo Herzog, and I’m the new Project Coordinator for CIT at Hope. I’d like to detail for you two particular projects that I’ve worked closely with Hope’s Integrated Marketing Team to complete. Hope’s Blog Network runs on the fantastic WordPress CMS. WordPress’ biggest strength is it’s flexibility through the use of plugins. Plugins …
Introducing UChat
In early February the Admissions Office launched a trial of UChat, a widget that brings real-time customer service to Hope’s Admissions website. Visitors to our site log in using an email address or their Facebook or Google credentials. Once registered, they can ask general questions of our staff, or even direct their questions to a …
OmniUpdate User Training Conference
I had the privilege of attending the OmniUpdate User Training Conference this week in Anaheim, California. OmniUpdate, you’ll recall, is the company who makes our new Content Management System (CMS), OU Campus. #OUTC14 was filled with presentations, sessions, topic tables and workshops specifically designed for OmniUpdate customers. It was great to get to know many …
Project (on) schedule
Good news! We are right on track as far as schedule and budget with our web design work with Mighty. Here’s what our next few steps look like: Now through early April: design concepts April/May: design extensions Mid-April through early June: front-end development Also, Mighty reviewed the wireframes with OmniUpdate (our new CMS) and we are …
Web Advisory Group
Today we welcomed the first gathering of our newly formed Web Advisory Group! This team is an ad hoc group primarily responsible for reviewing information and plans pertaining to the Web, new initiatives and strategies, and suggestions for changes and improvements to Hope Websites. The Web Advisory Group is composed of a broad representation from all areas of …
Wireframes
We’re moving into the wireframing stage of the web project. A website wireframe is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. Wireframing helps clarify exactly what needs to be on the different page types or templates of our new site. This practice helps to connect the underlying site-map to the visual …