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Another site worth a look
- 27 February 2008
Take a look at Bard’s site: http://www.bard.edu/ I enjoy the concept much more than the execution, but it is worth a look. The pulldown menus at the top too easily get lost and one is left feeling that the only way to navigate (other than the search box) is the Flash people photos. Having a top banner built in Flash with moving photos is all the rage these days. I’m not much of a fan, as I think they can be hard to navigate. Bard’s no exception in my mind. Why click on this guy or that? (Why not?) The concept of emphasizing the “human element” of a college is a good one though.
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I thought I’d post a link to a site I recently found and liked, Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/
It was just featured in InsideHigherEd for its rotating center image, with references to institutional history, which I like. But I find the juxtaposition of items on both horizontal and vertical axes also appealing. Other highlights for me: the tabs in the lower-middle section and the lower-left buttons give a clean, organized feel. Too bad it’s so scrunched.
I love the idea of the student and professor pictures to click on, but they need to transition along a slide bar or something so you don’t have to race to click them.
Also, take a gander at how Colgate http://www.colgate.edu/ has their left-side navigation. That’s pretty cool to me, how it only gives you a drop down if you click on it. Pretty clean.
This morning I checked out Wake Forest: http://www.wfu.edu/ I was initially put off by its outdated “folder” look, but the streamlined simplicity has grown on me. I don’t think I have found a cleaner homepage yet (with the possible exception of the just-a-search-engine approach of Duke, http://www.duke.edu/, but it is also downright ugly, in my opinion). I don’t think cleanliness for its own right is something to strive too hard for, but it’s nice not to be overwhelmed with a swarm of data on a homepage.