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Website Redesign

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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Introducing the New eNews Design

by Michael Santoroski on June 14, 2009

Starting with the June issue we are introducing a new simpler design for the monthly Roanoke College eNews. We will be reduce eNews from five versions to one.

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Introducing the New Athletics Site Design

by Michael Santoroski on June 12, 2009

We got the final comps from New City and approved them yesterday. These designs will be implemented by ICS Sidearm, and the new site will go live in August. Here they are. Put your thoughts in the comments. Home Page Design Sport Page Generic Page

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How to translate an alumni magazine to the web

by Whitney Anderson on April 27, 2009

I’m live blogging the Print & Web (Can the marriage be saved?) presentation at the CASE Design Institute in Boston presented by Art Jankhe, Ronn Campisi and Scott Dasse. The presentation is about the Bostonia magazine that was recently redesigned. They really tried to break everything up, knowing that people don’t want to read long [...]

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The new Online Admissions Application Wireframes are Here!!

by Michael Santoroski on February 21, 2009

I admit that getting excited about the wireframes for the online application is pretty lame, but our on-line app has been stuck in the stone ages (I mean pre-AJAX days!!) for so long, it’s exciting to see the process more forward for the redesign. We have partnered with our friends at New City Media to [...]

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