Some of you may have heard that Interim President Watts recently formed an ad hoc committee to begin a website review process. Eva was gracious enough to get me on this committee and I just wanted to give you a brief overview of our work. This committee was not in charge of actually redesigning the webpage, only of making recommendations for the process. However, during the course of our meetings, we saw several examples of what the new GPC homepage could look like. I was iffy about some of the color choices, but that’s not carved in stone, and the designs themselves were very clean and professional. I'm pleased to say that the Libraries featured prominently in the main links in each of these mock-ups.
The committee began meeting on March 30, 2006. I was unable to attend the first two meetings due to prior commitments, but David Free went in my place. (Thanks, David!). The committee was charged by the Interim President to make recommendations to address the following directives:
- Ensure that GPC’s mission and goals are served by its website
- Promote coordination, consistency and cohesiveness throughout the website
- Recommend revisions or updates to the GPC web policy
- Recommend major design, content, or structural changes to GPC’s main web page and those linked directly to it
- Recommend design standards for deeper levels of GPC web pages or sites
- Provide recommendations on web-related issues or disputes
Our 17-page report was presented to Interim President Watts on July 3, 2006. The report contained ten recommendations for conducting the website redesign. On the redesign itself, the framework will be the same as ours, a college “gateway” serving as a door to individual department and/or campus pages.
Of course, there is a lot more detail than this and I’ll be happy to discuss it with anyone who is interested.
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