It made a little sense. The only problem I for see is people getting down to the footer to find those links.
You over for the meeting tomorrow? We could talk about it then if we promise to not get off on another tangent J.
Mary Jackson
Web Designer
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
From: Burk, Christian M.
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 3:56 PM
To: Jackson, Mary T.
Cc: Fecci, Mike S.; Wester, Josh P.; Undergrad Website Issues
Subject: Re: Home page
Hi, Mary,
1. Subpage navigation. I asked you about this earlier but just remembered we got off on a tangent (imagine that?). Your pink, lilac, green buttons will take them to the main pages but there are sections without links to them and all the subpages to the main ones. You may have already figured this out in the content.
Yes, the audience-specific pages are a bit of a problem.
While we intend to make it easy on the home page to jump to the right area:
Undergrad
International
Graduate
Professional
Adult
it seems that we also need to bring in those other audiences:
High School Students
- seniors
- sophomores
- juniors
Parents
Counselors
Volunteers
Do you think we could use the footer to repeat the buttons:
About
Academics
Student Life
Visit
Apply
Financial Info
But also these audiences, rather than the sub pages?
Right now in the footer design, we have Navigation in 3 columns.
Could we have 3 columns as follows:
1. Heading: Navigation
About
Academics
Student Life
Visit
Apply
Financial Info
2. Heading: Information For
High School Students
- seniors
- sophomores
- juniors
Parents
High School Counselors
Volunteers
3. Heading: Prospective Students
Undergrad
International
Graduate
Professional
Adult
Let me know if this makes no sense.
Yours,
Christian
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Christian Burk
Creighton University
Undergraduate Admissions
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
christianburk@creighton.edu
(402) 280-2703
From: "Jackson, Mary T." <MaryJackson@creighton.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:09:02 -0500
To: Christian Burk <christianburk@creighton.edu>
Cc: "Fecci, Mike S." <MikeFecci@creighton.edu>, "Wester, Josh P." <joshwester@creighton.edu>
Subject: Home page
Christian. I think I’ve got everything but the home page and maybe some content styling.
Remaining Questions
1. Subpage navigation. I asked you about this earlier but just remembered we got off on a tangent (imagine that?). Your pink, lilac, green buttons will take them to the main pages but there are sections without links to them and all the subpages to the main ones. You may have already figured this out in the content.
2. Are you going to remove “Undergraduate Admissions” and move everything up one level? I’d be happy to do this for you if you want. I need to know as some of the typoscripts need the level the pages are on.
3. Not really a question. I think I’ll put the twitter feed on another page and pull it into the home. Ditto the Calendar.
a. Now this is a question and I know we started talking about it but the tangents got us.
i. Do you have a calendar at Creighton calendars – we shouldn’t have any problems styling this the way you want (how do you want it?)
ii. Let me know the search terms you want me to use in the Twitter update.
iii. News…. The home page has two “News” sections. Did I become a total space cadet when you were talking about this? Did you want two and how did you want to handle it (them)? In other words. You can manually update the “news” (one or both) or we can grab the most current news item from a specific place(s – the plural is for two news spots…). To do it automatically you’ll have to put the news in one location (either on one page or on pages under one page). It gets harder if we try to consolidate from more than one location – but doable. I didn’t see a News section on your current site (or this new one for that matter) so I don’t know how you have it set up now.
I can place the new (er--est) template(s) on the admissions page anytime you want and continue to develop it from there if you want.
One word of warning. Any big changes (wishes dreams can be done as change requests but only later… ) from here on out will have to be change requests after the site goes live. Obviously that doesn’t mean my fixing any of my bone headed boo boos.
Mary Jackson
Web Designer
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
