It's always good to read and hear perspectives of other IHEs regarding web development. A great blog post with website redesign advice just came through my RSS inbox.
(And I swear I'm not sharing this just because I'm one of the featured advisors.)
Karine Joly, who maintains an excellent blog at collegewebeditor.com, has posted a link to her most recent column for University Business, now available in the December issue as well as online: "10 Tips to a Successful Website Redesign". I encourage you to read the article. One passage that hit home for me: "Expect some opposition and criticism from staff, faculty, students, alumni, and even donors for changing 'their' website." That certainly happened here in the wake of our redesign of vt.edu.
What tips would you add to the list?
I would expand on #7 “Don’t forget to test as you redesign” and add “Test to break”
To Test to break: See how well your design holds up in different browsers, platforms. See how your content holds up with different audiences
By Carolyn Kletnieks on Dec 07, 2006, 05:39 PM