After four months of deliberation, the University's Web Communications Office is only a week or two away from completing a new home page for the University's Web site.
Director of Web Communications Nancy Tramontin explained that two goals prompted the change.
"The first [was] to get more links off the home page," she said. "You can now get to 137 sites from the home page with use of the fly-out. The second goal was to be able to put news and events directly on the home page."
Additional features will include direct links to emergency information, the Course Offering Directory, Integrated Student Information System and Webmail.
According to Tramontin, once activated, the emergency information link will turn red and alert the University community.
"Any notice we have to give to the University community, we can very easily put it on the home page now," she said.
The new site will also offer more feature photography, she added.
Tramontin said the Web site is a work in progress but that she hopes the extra links will enable users to navigate the Web site easily and efficiently.
Web Communications staff have been employing "comments through surveys from mostly students, but also faculty, staff, parents, and alumni... [to] make all sorts of changes for the Web site," Tramontin said. "We are taking the input we get very seriously."
She also emphasized her gratitude for the comments from the surveys.
"We are really seeking and getting really good feed back," Tramontin said. "By the hour we get suggestions. We really appreciate what people are telling us. They've been great about telling us what they want to use and what they want to see up there."
University spokesperson Carol Wood praised efforts to improve the home page.
"We're always trying to stay ahead of trends and trying to keep [the home page] fresh for people who use it on a daily basis," she said. "We also try to make it user friendly and to respond to people who use it."
The University posted a link to the proxy version of the new Web site on the current home page last week.
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