Design Issues Review
There has been quite a bit of positive reaction to the design. I believe the comments tell us that we are headed in the right direction. I wish that we could put the entire site in front of you now–it would answer a lot of the questions that you raise. For example, Q “I think [...]
Point of Clarification: “Any Person, Any Study” Not New University Motto
There has been a lot of discussion of the resonance of “Any Person, Any Study” and its implications as a university motto. I need to make something clear regarding the space on the new home page design that contains the bust of Ezra Cornell. We refer to the space as a communications campaign space. We [...]
Production update 7-26-04
The new site really took shape last week as developers adjusted the last of the content on the pages, and our Office got its first chance to review the entire site front-to-back and make recommendations for small adjustments. Section banners and page layouts are approaching their final incarnations. Campus maps were a central focus of [...]
Screenshots en route to August 16 Launch
Here is the first public look at early designs for the exciting new cornell.edu. We are knee deep in development and planning to launch in mid August, but we wanted to give the campus and the Cornell community a sneak peak. Before I get into the details of the new page designs, there are a [...]
Summary Response 22 Jul 2004
What a wonderful number of responses we’ve been receiving. There are a few repeating concerns that I’d like to address to all. I think the best way to do so, is to touch briefly upon our personal commitment to certain aspects of this project. The site will release with the new logo. On its launch [...]
Production update 7-19-04
Last week we took stock of how well the design and content for the site work together, and made adjustments to better integrate the two. We finalized our plan to offer campus maps using Acrobat PDF format for searching and printing and image formats for online viewing. The new site for the Office of the [...]
Welcome to the Redesign Blog
On behalf of the Office of Web Communications, we welcome you to our humble blog. The cornell.edu web site has been in production since late April 2004 and will launch in mid August 2004. The purpose of this blog is to provide the Cornell University community, and especially the web community, with the following: cornell.edu [...]
The 4 Year Plan for cornell.edu
Overview: Here is a highlights list of proposed achievements contained within the cornell.edu Redesign proposal. YEAR ZERO: 2003 November ? 2004 April: FOUNDATIONS Solidify systems foundation for cornell.edu, including hosting, content management, account management, statistics, etc. Seek Web communications priorities from senior management, key constituencies. Establish working relationships with senior management, colleagues, users. Establish working [...]
Scope of cornell.edu Project Development
Ensure solid and secure foundation for cornell.edu and its unit-related functionality. Drive development of the pieces missing from today’s cornell.edu site. Ex. President’s site, a fuller academics site, a site for students, an admissions site that serves all admissions audiences, etc. Leverage cornell.edu’s tremendous web traffic, enabling more units to take advantage of this traffic [...]
The Office of Web Communications
In late 2003 the Office of Web Communications was formed to address and promote Cornell University’s extensive use of the web. One of its first projects would be to redevelop the cornell.edu web site. First, Thomas Richardson was hired as Director of Web Communications. By summer 2004 the team consisted of Lisa Cameron-Norfleet, original webmaster [...]
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