Why now?

Given the financial turmoil within the College, the country, and the world, we’ve been asked by many people on campus: why are you doing this project now? Is this really the right time to be re-doing the website?
Here are some reasons why we think it is still the right time to do this:

We have to [...]

Update from Requirements Team

Here’s what’s new from the requirements team as of November 19th:
1. We’ve established who the stakeholders from the various offices, departments, and constituents should be, and contacted them to let them know that we’ll be calling on them to help us define the requirements for their area.
2. We are finalizing a campus-wide survey that we’ll [...]

Design/IA committee update & timeline

The Design/IA group of the Web Makeover Team has been meeting since October 24. Meetings are on Friday afternoons in the Library, Room 145, from 2 to 3:30. 
Group members: Bryan Carson, Alex Chapin, Tim Etchells (chair), Ian McBride, Amy McGill, Jamie Northrup, Jeff Rehbach, Mike Roy, Mark Zelis.
Our discussions so far have covered these topics, [...]

Platform Committee Update

Created a system inventory and identify dependencies.
Generated a list of platform requirements.  These would be in addition to what is found by the Requirements Committee.
Based on discussions, we identified three strategies for building a new presence.

An Aggregator Home Page with no central CMS, content authoring and managing would be done through multiple systems
Central CMS for [...]