Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Robert Noyce Scholarship

Our task was to create a first time website for the Robert Noyce Scholarship that appeals to potential scholarship applicants and current scholars at the graduate and undergraduate level. This site will be used by community college counselors and professors, SPU counselors and professors, and students looking for financial aid.

The Robert Noyce Scholarship program, named for the co-inventor of the semiconductor and co-founder of Intel, is a partnership grant from the National Science Foundation for science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) majors.

The program aims to meet the growing local and national need for better-qualified teaching professionals in the STEM fields. The program also seeks to channel these teachers into local districts with high-need students.



Inspiration: 8 Bit Music

Feeling like you work with pixels too much? Be inspired by what you can do with simple 8 bit music like what we grew up with on Nintendo game soundtracks. Check out all the new music coming out:

www.8bitpeoples.com/discography

Friday, July 25, 2008

Student Academic Services

Well we did it! 43 hours of design work later, we finally launched a new SAS website. This is the first time the site has been enhanced since it launched last decade, or at least that is my impression. New features include a very enhanced FAQ called "Get Answers" which breaks down the hundreds of questions prospective students and current students have into simple categories and then has a very clean and custom Spry Ajax effect of an accordion answers.

View it now: www.spu.edu/sas/

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

School of Theology

We just launched a new School of Theology website! 57 design production hours later we are live with a whole new site.

The dean of the School of Theology, had the following to say:

“This is a great site, and I want to thank you for the excellent way in which you listened to our needs and executed it in a timely fashion -- given all of the other tasks that you have before you! Please give our deep appreciation to your entire staff. It is a blessing to have such tremendous folks to work with.”

Friday, July 11, 2008

Undergrad Update

We have enhanced the website with content from etc magazine. We have added the My 2 Cents column from each issue and linked it to a corresponding counselor biography page as well as plugged it on the front page and staff page.