OU Day Implementation

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Had been using same site since 1995.- lots of out of date content and design, every site out doing their own thing - no unifying navigation, users had to reorient themselves every time they would hit different section of the site.

used a consultant team to review current site - have a new team reporting directly to president - web communication department was born
Redesign and rearchitect the site
challenges - buy-in and keeping project interest

campus partnerships
new components
good design
keep campus (esp stakeholders) in the know

Migration -
  • prioritized sites
  • migration should improve current sites
  • info arcitecture
  • analytics
  • usability
Wireframes
  • 10 templates with minor variations between each
Offer:
  • new design or modify and fit within wireframe
  • department or Partner agency can do it themselves
  • predesigned templates
Components
  • text image
  • dynamic flash -create movement/interest in site without having to do it themselves
  • tab block
Working on this
  • polling
  • comment
  • rss output
  • photo gallery - create thumbnails and set up gallery from media library
  • profile gallery (alumni)
     This would be great for subject specialists/public services
  • calendar - doing some great stuff with calendaring with different levels - can push up events to different department levels all the way up to campus-wide
  • forced alt text in media library
Accessibility
campus education
screen reader available in web comm office
google analytics - use for content and design decisions (screen res, etc)

note: look at museum of art

lessons learned
  • identifying requirements
  • design vs development
  • going live w/out redundancy ( any probs give bad pr to all users)
  • lacking define web requirements
Proud of
  • buy in, interest
  • creating and maintaining achievable schedule
  • documentation - before migrating - understanding responsibilities - bad design and bad content ae not allowed to migrate
  • usability testing - new issues, confirm decisions
  • system free to campus - building functionality with all departments
  • relationship with Day
similarity of language across departments

can we do "fake" rss with reference paragraph?







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