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Faculty, staff and students might notice a few differences on
the University's Web site as they start the new school year. One
of the big ones: The old blue banner is gone.
CWRU's online presence, along with many of its satellite sites,
has been completely reinvented over the past year courtesy of
the University's new in-house Web development team.
The Web masters, Thomas Q. Fulton, director, and Kevin Adams,
assistant director—along with Christopher Price, a graphic
designer in the publications office—have updated the University's
top-tier pages too many times to count since joining forces last
summer. The latest incarnation includes a section on the home
page, which a user can open or close depending on their individual
preferences, featuring news briefs.
"One of the great things about the Internet is that it allows
for information to constantly evolve," Fulton said. "The Web development
team is excited by the prospects of working with other schools
and departments to continually enhance the electronic face of
the University."
In its first year, the group not only completely redesigned the
University's home page but also helped about 50 different departments
and management centers create sites, each averaging about 20 pages,
that are consistent with the new look.
And the Web team is at the service of others on campus who might
benefit from the score of student programmers and tables of online
templates, graphics, photos and tutorials the team has assembled
(http://www.cwru.edu/webdev).
Another new feature to the Web site is a page (http://www.cwru.edu/menu/research/index.html)
that provides an overview of the history and current state of
research at the University, as well as links to research activities
at each school.
And the group is far from finished. They plan to continue reinventing
the University's home page and have been working with departments
to create an online marketing system that utilizes an "interview"
process that doubles as an information system with streaming video,
audio and auto responses built in.
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