DISCUSSION POINTS
Trends on Academic Websites
- Campaigns
- Showcase academics
- Separate news from calendared events
What We Want to Do
- Yearly web campaigns: Voices of Westminster, Semester at Ski, Capital Campaign
- Showcase student and faculty life
- Continue to showcase academic activity
- Separate news from calendared events
Design Recommendations
- Introduce a palette of new colors
- Use a branding image
- Use seasonal photos
- Use lifestyle photos
- New banner and footer
- Refine gateway page navigation
- Reconsider banner navigation
Westminster Site Architecture
- Ubiquitous banner and footer navigation
- Architecture by audience
- Get there in 3 clicks or less
- Gateway pages use categorized links
Web Technologies We Use
- text
- pictures
- Javascript and Java
- audio
- video
- Flash
- files for download: PDFs, Word, Excel, etc.
- cascading style sheets