Planning is underway to redesign the main Northland College home page and some top-level pages. In an effort to include you in this process, we have created this blog to talk about the project, our work and our progress as we journey toward the launch of our new college “front door” on the Web.
The goal of the project is to improve the functionality, accessibility, usability and design of northlandcollege.edu. The Northland College homepage averages nearly 200,000 hits per month and represents an important opportunity to communicate Northland College’s strengths by offering information and other forms of media to a variety of audiences.
As you can imagine, the process of reworking a site as large and complex as Northland College’s will be a lengthy process. Prototypes of the possible page designs will be posted for comment and usability testing will be done throughout the process. This blog will report to the campus community regarding progress on the new site, new features, analysis statistics, usability research and opinions about the current and future site plans.
We hope this blog will be of interest to you as we work to improve the Northland College Web experience. Your feedback and comments are encouraged.
5 Comments
August 25, 2008 at 5:27 pm
A new site… exciting!
Let’s hope the new one is more standards-complaint.
Some of the current pages tend to have problems displaying in browsers such as Firefox and Safari…
August 28, 2008 at 12:44 am
im excited for a new view as well..maybe have an easier way to get to your account under eservices or have everything on one page..if you look at the website for minnesota.edu..its really helpful everything in one area.
also maybe when you log out of the eservices account then maybe have a way to go back to the home page instead of typing in the website again!
just some suggestions i hope it helps!
August 28, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I just started learning the site so I hope that it doesnt change so much I dont know how to navagate?
August 29, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Thanks for having this blog, I found it by accident. I’m a prospective student and am intrigued with web design. The Northland site or any college site is much more important and influential to students than they realize–I can’t wait to see how the site progresses!
August 20, 2009 at 9:36 am
excited for a new view