Intern Wanted

Thanks to everyone for the great response on the mock ups! This week I’ll begin organizing and compiling the comments I received. Once I have the numbers, I’ll post them for everyone to see.

As I gear up for the big changes to Lincoln’s website, I’m starting to work on getting a replacement for my student intern who moved onto a new internship this summer. If you’re a student at Lincoln, have some experience with web design and/or graphics and would like to intern with OIT in web services for the summer, come by Schweiss Hall, room 102 and let me know. With the redesign coming, I think this will be a very interesting and educational internship!

Hello world!

Welcome!

Lincoln University has begun the process of redesigning and updating their website.  In 2007 LUTC (Lincoln University Technology Committee) formed a subcommittee for Web Strategies to investigate and recommend a new look and feel for the site as well as determining what content updates need to be made to provide valuable web-based services to our alumni, faculty, staff, students and parents. 

Redesign News

Check out the redesign area and look at the two designs Web Strategies has recommended to the LUTC:
  
View Mock up 1

View Mock up 2

Let us know what you think!

Content Updates

For content, there is a proposed calendar upgrade to review.  It provides the ability to narrow your view of events to specific areas on campus or see everything that’s going on.  Each department is color-coded to help the user discern which events pertain to which department when multiple calendars are selected.  The departments with calendars will be able to post their own calendar of events on their area of the LU website.  RSS feeds have been incorporated into the system and you can even download events to your own Outlook calendar if you like.  The administrative panel of this system allows for input of an expiration date so news and events can be entered and archived without creating a long list of outdated information displayed on the LU home page.

Check out the new calendar.

Tools for the Web

Using this blog is also a test for the University.  We’re looking for a good campus-wide blogging tool to enable open discussion (or private discussion when desired) on various University-related topics.  Try it out, post your comments, ask questions, make suggestions!