Orientation/Welcome Week

We just recently launched the Orientation/Welcome Week website including an awesome teaser video created by the amazing David Rither in ITS. 

Another one hits the dust...

Multi-Ethnic Programs site is up and running.

Perkins Center Blog is up!

Tali from the Perkins Center sent an email on Friday morning asking for a blog so he can communicate with his contacts all over the world. In a matter of hours I customized a blog and connected it to the server so we can host it.

I had an issue with the comments not working correctly but I had to catch a flight on Friday night, so as much as I hated to do it, I had to finish the project when I got back.

With some tweaking today I was able to get it all up and functioning.

View it here: www.spu.edu/depts/perkins/blog/

New Things...

We completed the New nav for reslife. Previously the old site's nav was not working on a Mac. We replaced the legacy javascript with really clean css and simple include files.

(now Safari users can see it...)

Spring enewsletter for alumni is now live!

"Seattle Preview" invitation

We heart eventbrite! Here is the admissions event that we customized using this invitation site. The design reflects the print campaign postcard...

Study Abroad site design PDF

Well the Study Abroad site design PDF is viewable now.
I have added in colors and photos and Hope has had me update the text.

View the Design PDF

View the Wireframe PDF

Sites Worth a Look

http://www.statsaholic.com/
Compare site traffic of up to 3 sites.

http://www.quantcast.com/top-sites-1
Stats on site traffic, audience, affiliations, competition, etc.

SPFC OrgPsych videos are up!

Well we are finally live with posted videos for OrgPsych.
They are all now on YouTube as well.

http://www.spu.edu/depts/spfc/orgpsych/videos/index.asp

Creating A Successful Online Portfolio

Sam emailed us a great link to helpful tips on creating an online portfolio.

New Flickr account for MEP

Check out the new Flicker account we made for the Multi-Ethnic Programs page

BittBox

http://www.bittbox.com/

This site seems to keep up with the trends.

New Office Set up

We will be moving in May or June upstairs into our own space.

It will be really nice to spread out a bit. Right now we have three people in a cube.

Upper Weter represent!

Office of Academic Affairs is live!

47 hours of work and a lot of clean up of old, old code, we are now live with the new Office of Academic Affairs site. Credit really goes to Ciara for all the work of converting the site over and designing the site from the wireframe to launch.

View the old and new screenshots

http://www.spu.edu/depts/oaa/index.asp

edustyle nominations

Here are the top nominated college websites:

http://www.edustyle.net/awards/ballot.php

Orientation/NSA Email

Ciara cranked out a nice email template for  Orientation/NSA.

Busy Summer ahead

We have some great projects in place for this summer like redoing the campus map, brand new UC Communications site, more content development for etc and Response as well as big site launches for School of Theology, Study Abroad, Multi-Ethnic Programs and more.

Jamming!

We are so busy!

We just updated some major stuff since the last post. Here is a sampling:

• etc Spring 2008 is live!
• Orientation/Welcome Week 2008 is live!
• Multi-Ethnic Programs has a new landing page
• Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts event has a landing page
• Office of Academic Affairs in just moments from going live
• SPIRL Summer Institute now has an updated front page
• Admissions has all 3 Admitted students emails finished
• John Perkins Center has a new email template
• Fine and Performing Arts Scholarship page and application form
  

We are working on

• wireframe for the new Study Abroad site
• new School of Theology site
• new site for Political Science and Geography
• new Student Academic Services site
  

Much more to come. Stay tuned...

Pixel Awards

I was browsing through the Pixel Awards

pretty sweet.

Here's some I liked:

henrik bulow

-- does a good job of really highlighting what it needs to (the photography), and does a great job of maintaining a minimalist design even with the use of flash.

loop select

-- like the graphic look. Unfortunate that they had to stick the sponser logos in there, but I guess form follows function.

And, then, here's the Green Winner for Bryan:
ecommunity

37five awardees

New listing of 37five awardees. Created by Ciara and KT Barnes.
This is an impressive list that shows all the organizations SPU has given money to through 37five!

www.spu.edu/depts/um/37five/awardees.asp

Spring 2008 Response Online

We are live with the newest online version of Response Online. This time we had great help from both student designers Ciara and Melissa. Melissa was able to jump right on her first day and tackling all 135 images for the site.

We added in several photo slideshows as well as at least 8 online exclusive stories, edited by our online editor Hope.

Total recorded hours from the Mazz Squad total around 57 hours!

Check out the cool cover featuring Professor Laura Lasworth's paintings

View Spring 2008 Response Online