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Website Redesign

Campus Map–Going Responsive

by Michael Santoroski on October 29, 2012

With the huge growth in smartphones and tablets it is time for our campus map to go responsive. We have embarked on a project with our partner New City Media to replace our Flash based campus map with a new responsive maps based upon HTML5 and CSS3. Here are some screen shot previews:

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New Features of Our Mobile Site–Coming Soon

by Michael Santoroski on April 28, 2011

We are working on add a new (third) row of icons to our mobile home site. Right now they are: Admissions Alumni Majors Awards But, of course this is subject to change. Check out some screen shots below, and hit up the comments link with your feedback. Admissions: Alumni: Majors: Awards:

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Fat Footer is Live

by Michael Santoroski on April 12, 2011

Our new Fat Footer went live yesterday afternoon. Check it out at http://www.roanoke.edu. I think it is a huge improvement, and has several features that I have wanted to implement for long time.

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Fat Footer

by Michael Santoroski on March 4, 2011

We are looking at adding a fat footer to roanoke.edu My plan is to add the following content: About the college section, (this is something that I have wanted to add for years) Full address, and links to maps, directions and mobile Admissions phone, e-mail and top links “Popular Today” links from our Google analytics [...]

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Video on the homepage

by Whitney Anderson on May 10, 2010

We just launched a new look on the homepage by replacing our large image/flash area with a new video flash piece.  I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.  The concept and design was done in house and then our friends at New City helped us with some tweaks and built it for us.  [...]

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Social Media on the Homepage, Part 2

by Michael Santoroski on April 28, 2010

Recently I blogged about how other Virginia colleges were using Social Media on their homepages, since then we have been trying to figure out the best way to get social media on the Roanoke College homepage. After doing some internal mock-ups and and asking New City (our design partners) to do some mock-ups, we came [...]

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Video is coming soon to our homepage

by Whitney Anderson on March 29, 2010

The Roanoke College homepage has a large flash area that is currently photos and text.   We’ve been thinking about replacing it for some time, but weren’t sure exactly what we wanted to do. Current: We knew that from a content standpoint we wanted to feature our branding and messaging, and we knew that we wanted [...]

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New Maroons Online Mockup

by Michael Santoroski on February 18, 2010

We are hard at work coming up with great new ideas for Maroons Online. Our concept is to make user profiles the centerpiece, and allow users to search and view other Alumni’s profiles. We are also planning to use Facebook Connect for login, so users can post information from Maroons Online back to Facebook. Connections [...]

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Social Media on a College or University Home Page?

by Michael Santoroski on February 16, 2010

I have been thinking about when it will be time to put social media on the home page for Roanoke College. This is a big change for me, since for a long time it was “if,” now it is “when.” I have followed University of Richmond’s and Washington & Lee’s use of Twitter and Facebook [...]

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Web Announcer gets a new name and a new look: Introducing the Daily e-mail

by Michael Santoroski on August 19, 2009

We have just launched a new look for Web Announcer, which is now being called the “Daily e-mail.” This look is a continuation of the redesign of enews and now there is now a consistent look between the two. It contains all of the same information, just with a different layout. We will also have [...]

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