Look at the use of single templates on higher education websites. Implementing an institution-wide template sounds like a good idea at first but how does it perform in the real world? Get insights into the pros and cons of implementing a single template across all institution websites. We will explore what works and what doesn't, from both the management and end-user prospective. Discover techniques to embrace the uniqueness of each area of your institution and how to engage your visitors along the way.
http://nickdenardis.com/
Designing for next steps - A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle: how do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the “back” button. With each page having a defined “next step” it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience. The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care. This session will walk through real life examples to identify common pitfalls and successful approaches, provide techniques to objectively look at your communications from your audience’s point of view and highlight tools to measure and track success of your communications.
Complete website redesigns are a thing of the past, it's time to think beyond the launch it and leave it mentality. Learn how to discover the pain points of your website and successfully correct them. This interactive talk will walk you through your site as an end user. Learn about A/B and multivariate testing mechanisms, how to create effective tests, and how to publish results to build credibility and authority. This talk will leave you with the ability to take away a process to build upon.
Presentation about social media tools to help start-up businesses utilize the space with the least amount of time. The presentation was given at the Wayne State University to students learning to start businesses through the Blackstone LaunchPad.
Give Your Content Legs and Run With It - PSUWEB11Nick DeNardis
Nick DeNardis & Mallory Wood
Congratulations, you have a website and it is full of content. But... what are you (the human!) doing on the back-end to make sure that visitors are finding the info they came for? Happy Visitors = Happy You. Reacting to your visitors needs, or even better, being proactive will go a long way in enhancing a visitor’s experience with your website. This session will teach you to do just that, helping you think beyond “write it and leave it” by showing you how to transform what’s generally static into long lasting social and interactive content. Let’s redefine what it means to publish content, rethink where it gets published, and rework existing content to meet your visitor’s needs.
http://psuweb11.sched.org/event/5c3d1b9d1c9140abe6d64d06d4e2dc7c
Presentation made by Nick DeNardis at the Case V conference on December 15, 2009 in Chicago, IL. It details the Web site redesign process of Wayne State University and how we successfully launched 350 redesigned sites in 5 years.
http://wcs.wayne.edu/casev/
Designing for next steps - A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle: how do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the “back” button. With each page having a defined “next step” it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience. The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care. This session will walk through real life examples to identify common pitfalls and successful approaches, provide techniques to objectively look at your communications from your audience’s point of view and highlight tools to measure and track success of your communications.
Complete website redesigns are a thing of the past, it's time to think beyond the launch it and leave it mentality. Learn how to discover the pain points of your website and successfully correct them. This interactive talk will walk you through your site as an end user. Learn about A/B and multivariate testing mechanisms, how to create effective tests, and how to publish results to build credibility and authority. This talk will leave you with the ability to take away a process to build upon.
Presentation about social media tools to help start-up businesses utilize the space with the least amount of time. The presentation was given at the Wayne State University to students learning to start businesses through the Blackstone LaunchPad.
Give Your Content Legs and Run With It - PSUWEB11Nick DeNardis
Nick DeNardis & Mallory Wood
Congratulations, you have a website and it is full of content. But... what are you (the human!) doing on the back-end to make sure that visitors are finding the info they came for? Happy Visitors = Happy You. Reacting to your visitors needs, or even better, being proactive will go a long way in enhancing a visitor’s experience with your website. This session will teach you to do just that, helping you think beyond “write it and leave it” by showing you how to transform what’s generally static into long lasting social and interactive content. Let’s redefine what it means to publish content, rethink where it gets published, and rework existing content to meet your visitor’s needs.
http://psuweb11.sched.org/event/5c3d1b9d1c9140abe6d64d06d4e2dc7c
Presentation made by Nick DeNardis at the Case V conference on December 15, 2009 in Chicago, IL. It details the Web site redesign process of Wayne State University and how we successfully launched 350 redesigned sites in 5 years.
http://wcs.wayne.edu/casev/
How to be better at getting things done in 2022Nick DeNardis
Focuses on changing habits, making time for focused attention, using tools to take back control of your time and using tools to keep track of ideas and decisions asynchronously.
Five-minute talk as part of the How To Be Better In 2022 event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-be-better-in-2022-tickets-235361250837
What is quality code? From cruft to craftNick DeNardis
No one sets out to create crufty code, but too often the pressure to "push it out the door and we'll fix it later" gets the best of us all. Before you know it, it's three projects later, the sun is still shining and you're still getting a paycheck. So where is the incentive to go back and clean under the rug?
Poor core quality isn't just a developer problem, either. It bleeds into team moral, deters decision agility, and ultimately prevents team members from getting into flow.
Quality code isn't something that requires a complete rewrite either (which is likely impossible), but can be accomplished with style guides, code reviews and a devotion to team investment time.
The pressure to ship will always be there, but starting (or maintaining) projects with an agreed upon foundation alleviates developers and designers from making potentially hundreds of decisions each day. This leaves room for the decisions that actually matter.
Learn how to transform your team, regardless of your position, into a lean, mean standards machine. Develop a multi-tier style guide, workflow and practices that focus on knowledge and consensus building. Eliminate the mundane decisions and allow the team to focus on its craft.
Why #littlebigdetails Matter and What You Should Do About ThemNick DeNardis
The audience, structure and often the design of university websites are 90% the same (for the most part). Although your website is probably not the sole reason students enroll, it can be a detractor. The difference between a regular site and a rememberable one is the #littlebigdetails. A lot of time is spent on the “big details” of a website, like the centerpiece image, and things that everyone expects, frankly the easy decisions. The harder, but more memorable, are the little details that make a big difference in your user's experience. Learn why these details make such a large impact and how to take a step back to discover how to add a little joy to your user experience.
Designing for next steps: A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle. How do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage, but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the back button. With each page having a defined next step it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience.
The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. No matter how large you make them your visitors are not going to click if they don't care. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care.
Producing a mobile presence. Timeline: Yesterday...Nick DeNardis
Having a comprehensive mobile strategy is great but your users aren’t waiting around till you have have a pixel perfect solution. Your users are on their mobile devices right now waiting to access your content, having something up is better than nothing. This talk is a look at creating a practical, agile and ever evolving mobile Web presence. A mobile presence can be created on a small budget and without a lot of time. An introduction to the tools, frameworks and testing strategies needed to get a mobile website up quickly and moving in a more useful and usable direction each day.
Creating a separate mobile website is a great idea until someone changes a data source on you. Your users don’t care if your LDAP is down or why they can’t pull up next the class schedule for next semester. In this session you will learn how to plan for the worst; network outages, slow response times and unorganized data. The mobile Web isn’t very useful without content and often that content is gathered from many sources that are out of the developers control. Gathering, protecting and organizing that data is the job of a smart developer and a successful mobile Web presence. This is accomplished by adding an API layer to everything you do. This session will walk you through the ins and outs of creating and maintaining a Web API that can extend far beyond your mobile presence.
Your visitors interact with content, not with your website. Content consistency is crucial to a successful user experience. Re-publishing is one option but it’s an inside-out action that relies on the authority controlling where the information goes. An API frees your data and the responsibility to where it is published and accessed. Mobile is a major consumer for your API but not every API is setup to handle the mass of requests coming from those devices. Learn how to mobile devices consume API’s with limited or low bandwidth and how to to tailor your API to be as efficient and effective as possible.
http://environmentsforhumans.com/2012/doteduguru-summit/
Golden Rule for the Web - #eduGuruSummitNick DeNardis
Why you cannot outsource a sustainable redesign project, but jump starting it has to come from the outside. We all know what annoys us online, why do we keep doing it to our users?
Working internally you come across various motivations and keeping the users front and center can be difficult. Learn strategies and techniques to keep the end user top of mind and driving decisions.
Better Design Through Analytics - #eduiconf 2010Nick DeNardis
It’s been said that “good designers redesign, great designers realign“. Design is a continual process of refinement, realignment and improvement. But how do you decide what needs refining? Do you make informed decisions or are you grasping at straws in the dark?
Web site statistics hold the key to making informed decisions, but throwing a little Google Analytics code on your site isn’t really enough.
In this half-day workshop you will learn how to use web statistics to better refine your designs. Get the basics of what all those analytics numbers mean, learn how to set measurable goals, and define conversions. Then take it to the next level with the Google Website Optimizer, A/B and multivariate testing.
Web Metrics: An Overview - #eduiconf 2010Nick DeNardis
Web site statistics hold the key to making informed decisions, but throwing a little Google Analytics code on your site isn’t really enough.
In this one hour session you will learn how to use web statistics to better refine your designs. Get the basics of what all those analytics numbers mean, learn how to set measurable goals, and define conversions.
Conference Wrap Up: http://doteduguru.com/id6217-edui-2010-conference-wrap-up.html
Analyzing Real-time User Visitor SearchesNick DeNardis
Higher education websites always have a steady supply of visitors. It's great to see the numbers in Google Analyics fluctuate each day and trend upwards over time, but are your visitors finding what they came for? This talk is a high-level-to-in-depth look at tracking what visitors are searching for in real time from your site. We'll go beyond the consolidated "popular keywords" list to an actual trend list with grouped phases and pages. The goal is peer into the visitor's mind and figure out why they are searching for "address" on the Contact Us page or "Professor Smith" on the Faculty Information page. Higher education websites always struggle to accommodate two audiences, internal and external. Search results based on location don't lie, it's easy to combine real internal searches with reasons why quicklinks and extra menus may or may not be functioning as optimally as they should. It's time to go beyond pageviews and user paths and look at real-time search analytics.
Break Through the Administrative Barriers and Focus on Your Users.
http://miupa.org/fresh/break-through-the-administrative-barriers-and-focus-on-your-users/
A presentation about web standards and accessibility I gave to the ASIS&T group at Wayne State University.
Full Explanation:
http://wsuasist.blogspot.com/2009/03/web-standards-and-accessibility.html
Internal presentation given by Nick DeNardis at Wayne State University to the Marketing and Communications creative group for internal employee development.
How to be better at getting things done in 2022Nick DeNardis
Focuses on changing habits, making time for focused attention, using tools to take back control of your time and using tools to keep track of ideas and decisions asynchronously.
Five-minute talk as part of the How To Be Better In 2022 event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-be-better-in-2022-tickets-235361250837
What is quality code? From cruft to craftNick DeNardis
No one sets out to create crufty code, but too often the pressure to "push it out the door and we'll fix it later" gets the best of us all. Before you know it, it's three projects later, the sun is still shining and you're still getting a paycheck. So where is the incentive to go back and clean under the rug?
Poor core quality isn't just a developer problem, either. It bleeds into team moral, deters decision agility, and ultimately prevents team members from getting into flow.
Quality code isn't something that requires a complete rewrite either (which is likely impossible), but can be accomplished with style guides, code reviews and a devotion to team investment time.
The pressure to ship will always be there, but starting (or maintaining) projects with an agreed upon foundation alleviates developers and designers from making potentially hundreds of decisions each day. This leaves room for the decisions that actually matter.
Learn how to transform your team, regardless of your position, into a lean, mean standards machine. Develop a multi-tier style guide, workflow and practices that focus on knowledge and consensus building. Eliminate the mundane decisions and allow the team to focus on its craft.
Why #littlebigdetails Matter and What You Should Do About ThemNick DeNardis
The audience, structure and often the design of university websites are 90% the same (for the most part). Although your website is probably not the sole reason students enroll, it can be a detractor. The difference between a regular site and a rememberable one is the #littlebigdetails. A lot of time is spent on the “big details” of a website, like the centerpiece image, and things that everyone expects, frankly the easy decisions. The harder, but more memorable, are the little details that make a big difference in your user's experience. Learn why these details make such a large impact and how to take a step back to discover how to add a little joy to your user experience.
Designing for next steps: A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle. How do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage, but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the back button. With each page having a defined next step it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience.
The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. No matter how large you make them your visitors are not going to click if they don't care. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care.
Producing a mobile presence. Timeline: Yesterday...Nick DeNardis
Having a comprehensive mobile strategy is great but your users aren’t waiting around till you have have a pixel perfect solution. Your users are on their mobile devices right now waiting to access your content, having something up is better than nothing. This talk is a look at creating a practical, agile and ever evolving mobile Web presence. A mobile presence can be created on a small budget and without a lot of time. An introduction to the tools, frameworks and testing strategies needed to get a mobile website up quickly and moving in a more useful and usable direction each day.
Creating a separate mobile website is a great idea until someone changes a data source on you. Your users don’t care if your LDAP is down or why they can’t pull up next the class schedule for next semester. In this session you will learn how to plan for the worst; network outages, slow response times and unorganized data. The mobile Web isn’t very useful without content and often that content is gathered from many sources that are out of the developers control. Gathering, protecting and organizing that data is the job of a smart developer and a successful mobile Web presence. This is accomplished by adding an API layer to everything you do. This session will walk you through the ins and outs of creating and maintaining a Web API that can extend far beyond your mobile presence.
Your visitors interact with content, not with your website. Content consistency is crucial to a successful user experience. Re-publishing is one option but it’s an inside-out action that relies on the authority controlling where the information goes. An API frees your data and the responsibility to where it is published and accessed. Mobile is a major consumer for your API but not every API is setup to handle the mass of requests coming from those devices. Learn how to mobile devices consume API’s with limited or low bandwidth and how to to tailor your API to be as efficient and effective as possible.
http://environmentsforhumans.com/2012/doteduguru-summit/
Golden Rule for the Web - #eduGuruSummitNick DeNardis
Why you cannot outsource a sustainable redesign project, but jump starting it has to come from the outside. We all know what annoys us online, why do we keep doing it to our users?
Working internally you come across various motivations and keeping the users front and center can be difficult. Learn strategies and techniques to keep the end user top of mind and driving decisions.
Better Design Through Analytics - #eduiconf 2010Nick DeNardis
It’s been said that “good designers redesign, great designers realign“. Design is a continual process of refinement, realignment and improvement. But how do you decide what needs refining? Do you make informed decisions or are you grasping at straws in the dark?
Web site statistics hold the key to making informed decisions, but throwing a little Google Analytics code on your site isn’t really enough.
In this half-day workshop you will learn how to use web statistics to better refine your designs. Get the basics of what all those analytics numbers mean, learn how to set measurable goals, and define conversions. Then take it to the next level with the Google Website Optimizer, A/B and multivariate testing.
Web Metrics: An Overview - #eduiconf 2010Nick DeNardis
Web site statistics hold the key to making informed decisions, but throwing a little Google Analytics code on your site isn’t really enough.
In this one hour session you will learn how to use web statistics to better refine your designs. Get the basics of what all those analytics numbers mean, learn how to set measurable goals, and define conversions.
Conference Wrap Up: http://doteduguru.com/id6217-edui-2010-conference-wrap-up.html
Analyzing Real-time User Visitor SearchesNick DeNardis
Higher education websites always have a steady supply of visitors. It's great to see the numbers in Google Analyics fluctuate each day and trend upwards over time, but are your visitors finding what they came for? This talk is a high-level-to-in-depth look at tracking what visitors are searching for in real time from your site. We'll go beyond the consolidated "popular keywords" list to an actual trend list with grouped phases and pages. The goal is peer into the visitor's mind and figure out why they are searching for "address" on the Contact Us page or "Professor Smith" on the Faculty Information page. Higher education websites always struggle to accommodate two audiences, internal and external. Search results based on location don't lie, it's easy to combine real internal searches with reasons why quicklinks and extra menus may or may not be functioning as optimally as they should. It's time to go beyond pageviews and user paths and look at real-time search analytics.
Break Through the Administrative Barriers and Focus on Your Users.
http://miupa.org/fresh/break-through-the-administrative-barriers-and-focus-on-your-users/
A presentation about web standards and accessibility I gave to the ASIS&T group at Wayne State University.
Full Explanation:
http://wsuasist.blogspot.com/2009/03/web-standards-and-accessibility.html
Internal presentation given by Nick DeNardis at Wayne State University to the Marketing and Communications creative group for internal employee development.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Flexible Web Branding, the Case Against Single Web Templates - CASEV 2010
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2. Nick DeNardis
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Wayne State University
http://wayne.edu/
Host of EDU Checkup
http://educheckup.com/
Writer for .eduGuru
http://doteduguru.com/
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4. Who are you?
Directly control your entire institution’s website?
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5. Who are you?
Directly control your entire institution’s website?
Directly control the homepage or a portion of the site?
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6. Who are you?
Directly control your entire institution’s website?
Directly control the homepage or a portion of the site?
Are a one person shop?
CASE V 2010 @nickdenardis
7. Who are you?
Directly control your entire institution’s website?
Directly control the homepage or a portion of the site?
Are a one person shop?
Have one central CMS?
CASE V 2010 @nickdenardis
8. Who are you?
Directly control your entire institution’s website?
Directly control the homepage or a portion of the site?
Are a one person shop?
Have one central CMS?
Are you currently going through a redesign?
CASE V 2010 @nickdenardis
9. Who are you?
Directly control your entire institution’s website?
Directly control the homepage or a portion of the site?
Are a one person shop?
Have one central CMS?
Are you currently going through a redesign?
Have an in house Web team?
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10. The golden rule of the web
Treat users as you would want to be treated
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11. Higher Education:
The Toughest Gig in All the Web
- Mark Greenfield
3pm today in the Ballroom II
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12. Benchmarking
http://edustyle.net
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14. Goal: Make it noteworthy
But what makes a noteworthy site?
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15. Noteworthy in the past year
Boston University x 7 Saxion Universities of Applied
Sciences
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Dickinson College
Wofford College
University of Puget Sound
Connecticut State University System
Freed-Hardeman University
Century College
Southwest Minnesota State
Mills College
University
University of Missouri
NC State University
Cornell University x 2
The University of Alabama
Kent State University Grand Valley State University
Cornell University
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16. Examining the noteworthy
sites from the past year
Mainly redesign
An opportunity to implement a new direction
Small iterations don’t make the list
What is the shelf life of a redesigned site?
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44. What did we just learn?
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45. What did we just learn?
Single web templates are not a silver bullet
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46. What did we just learn?
Single web templates are not a silver bullet
Old sites need to be redesigned
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47. What did we just learn?
Single web templates are not a silver bullet
Old sites need to be redesigned
Competition between complete or no control
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48. What did we just learn?
Single web templates are not a silver bullet
Old sites need to be redesigned
Competition between complete or no control
To think like a user you have to be a user
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49. A happy medium :-)
Flexible branding from the start
Good communication
Proper training
Reward the rule followers
Pick your battles
Sometimes you just have to let go
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58. Departmental interview
Have the dean/department head/director there
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59. Departmental interview
Have the dean/department head/director there
Meet with the advisors, admissions & other staff
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60. Departmental interview
Have the dean/department head/director there
Meet with the advisors, admissions & other staff
Get a list of differentiators
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61. Departmental interview
Have the dean/department head/director there
Meet with the advisors, admissions & other staff
Get a list of differentiators
You will find more commonality than differences
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62. Departmental interview
Have the dean/department head/director there
Meet with the advisors, admissions & other staff
Get a list of differentiators
You will find more commonality than differences
Make sure it is all about the end user
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63. Departmental interview
Have the dean/department head/director there
Meet with the advisors, admissions & other staff
Get a list of differentiators
You will find more commonality than differences
Make sure it is all about the end user
Solve problems, setup goals
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64. Get the designers involved
Involve them early
Make sure they are aware of the requirements
Don’t re-invent the wheel
Keep to constructs
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65. Average highered website
Header News & announcements
Navigation Promotion area
Main branding area Contact information
Search box Footer
1-2 Sentence “why we
exist”
Upcoming events
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66. Common unique items
Student/faculty/alumni profiles
Image gallery
Video gallery
In the news
Sign up for updates form
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67. Totally unique elements
Night sky calendar
Picture of the week
Top 10 pages visited pages
System availability
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91. “No no’s”
Letter from the dean/director
“Quicklinks”
Non-standard colors
Unapproved wordmarks
Departmental “logos”
Creating a “destination” site just because
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92. Making exceptions
Pick your battles
What are valid reasons for making exceptions?
“Our students are different”
Document reasoning
Try not to do it on your homepage
Flash, moving elements, different colors, fonts
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93. Summary
Treat users as you would want to be treated
Every department cannot fit into the same box
Create constructs everyone can use
Have fun while still being professional
It’s just the web
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