College Web Sites
In Web Design we’ve been deconstructing College web sites all term. Now its time to start some comparisons - particularly since we now have the language (theoretically) to speak intelligently about it. There are a couple of web resources that can help us.
1) Smashing Magazine has a Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites that you can access. This is at least somewhat curated, but questionable in places. In any event it is at least a culled collection rather than a simple listing of edu sites. It’s over a year old so it’s getting dated, but it’s still a fine place to find items for discussion.
2) eduStyle is a site designed for professionals working on college sites (web content folks, graphic designers, etc.). Any site can be listed on here, but anyone can rate it as well - so there’s little if any editorial process. They do however have an awards program that is judged, so you might want to focus on the winners for examples and ideas.
I’m afraid the W&J site does not score well at eduStyle, although there haven’t been many votes. The info there is from the old site too, so the new redesign would need to be listed; but given the functionality issues, I don’t think we’d do well.
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