The wait is over! The new Northland Community & Technical College home page is here for preview before it’s live launch date of January 5th, 2009. Please review the new design and send us your feedback by posting your comments on this blog or by completing our online survey .
The new home page will include several new features including:
- The ability to search NCTC from the home page using our new Google powered search.
- A rotating “billboard” which will feature Northland academic programs, new site features, exciting news & events and other important announcements.
- An all new Help Center (in development) that will help you explore the new website and also better understand other areas of the college.
- Tired of digging around for the pages you use most? Let us do your dirty work by providing you with our Most Popular Links feature which provides quick access to the most used links based on audience type.
- The new main navigation bar now has one-click access to the tools you use most. (D2L, NetMail & eServices)
- For new visitors to the Northland home page the Take Action section provides our new visitors faster access to online apps and other forms.
- Our all new Social Media Center allows visitors to better interact with other Northland students, faculty/staff, alumni or just become a fan of the college.
These are just a few of the exciting new features you can expect to see on the new Northland web site.
Check out the new design here: http://www.northlandcollege.edu/_BETA/
9 Comments
December 5, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Cool site. The design looks nice.
You might want to have the banner rotator, automatically rotate until the user clicks on one of the banners
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IAmTheDesperate
December 6, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I came across this blog by accident, but I must say I am very impressed by this new design. Congrats to your web team!
December 6, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Very nice work! This is worlds better than the current page.
I’m not sure how well the color scheme in the “SocialMediaCenter” section works with the rest of the page, but overall you’ve done a wonderful job!
December 7, 2008 at 4:25 pm
One of the better looking university sites I’ve seen. The design is simple and easy to use, yet looks so advanced. Keep up the good work.
December 8, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Now this is what a redesign should be! What a drastic improvement. Fantastic layout. Nice use of white space. Coloring spot on. User friendly and full of life. From one designer to another keep up the good fight.
December 18, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I like it — huge improvements here — but I have to say, I feel like the site is yelling at me. Very heavy usage of upper-case and bold fonts comes off very strong and makes readability very difficult. I would drop the use of all upper-case in the navigation bar across the top and in the banners and images in the center. The placement of these objects is such that the extra emphasis provided by bold, all-caps is too much. My $0.02, for what that’s worth.
Keep up the awesome work here!
December 18, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Thanks John! You caught me in the middle testing some different styles on the main navigation bar. I had just switched it to all caps last night. Thought about it after work and didn’t like it either. So I switched it back this morning. Thanks for keeping me on my toes though.
January 10, 2009 at 1:50 am
I like this a lot better than the old site! It finally looks like it can compete with other university websites. Good Job!
July 2, 2009 at 9:15 am
Thank you. best information for me.