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.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

We have moved!

Well we moved! That is right, we are located in Upper Weter now.
We are very happy with our new space. We can now work together without all three of our chairs colliding, but we miss our friends in Lower Weter. Come stop by and say "hello". 

Thursday, June 19, 2008

My World is live!

Check out the awesome gallery of stories and photos. Thanks to Julia and Melissa for all the hard work.
www.spu.edu/myworld

Noyce Scholarship Wireframe

Ciara created a nice wireframe for the Noyce Scholarship. It can be found on the Pre Production server only available at this time on campus.

View wireframe PDF

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Political Science and Geography Site is Live

We bailed the Political Science and Geography department out of a very old and static site into a template that is flexible, easily editable and up to web standards. Say goodbye to Io (moon).

Credit goes to Melissa for most of the work and the great image at the top of the template.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Monday, June 16, 2008

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Web Redesign Project Blog

Web Redesign Project Blog is now live, but no real content in it.

Also the frame for the redesign site is in place on pre production server, viewable from on-campus only.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Busy Summer indeed

The Mazz Squad has been working hard at meeting fast deadlines left and right, trying to keep up with the heap of projects. The student workers are taking off end of week for a summer break. Melissa will be gone for most of June and Ciara is gone next week so we are trying to roll out what we can now before this week ends.

Most are currently working on a cool feature for etc magazine and a section called My World. We are going to be creating a My World gallery that shows the photos and the short stories that are featured on the inside covers of the mag. From here on out the etc magazine editor Julia will be extending the stories online and they will be directed from the magazine telling them they can view more.

For the most recent My World my idea was to find out what an average game day is like for and SPU Orange Man and add a photo gallery from the shoot.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

School of Theology

Most recently we presented wireframes of the new website for School of Theology. The site needs to be able to market to potential grad students for the new Master's programs as well as inform incoming freshmen and current students. The site also needs to be able to serve the school in promoting the new CBTE, Center for Biblical and Theological Education, which will one day have it's own comprehensive site.


Monday, June 2, 2008

Parent e-newsletter

We are getting faster and faster and rolling out the email newsletters.
This last one Ciara and I rolled out in about 3 hours, not counting testing and all the work Reece put into writing it.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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.


Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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/

Friday, May 23, 2008

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!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

"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...

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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

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.

Monday, May 12, 2008

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

Friday, May 9, 2008

Creating A Successful Online Portfolio

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

Thursday, May 8, 2008

New Flickr account for MEP

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


Tuesday, May 6, 2008

BittBox

http://www.bittbox.com/

This site seems to keep up with the trends.

Friday, May 2, 2008

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

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Jamming!

We are so busy!

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

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...

Thursday, April 3, 2008

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.
-- 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

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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