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["m o r r y" <morry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or you can check out what it looked like on the Internet Archive aka the
'wayback' machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20030214140955/http://www.jtsa.edu/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A.Helfman" <amhelfman@xxxxxxxx>
To: <webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: [webproducers] Re: New website


>
> Ari,
>
>          The previous homepage had been a solid, dark blue page dominated
> by a large photo of our building. All the interior pages were identical,
> built from a single template that relied on quadruple-nested tables for
its
> layout. (I didn't create that design!) The content was the text of our
> academic bulletin, and it was divided according to the table of contents
in
> the printed bulletin.  I spent several months conducting an
> organization-wide needs assessment, from which I developed the content
> areas and information architecture of the new site. We then developed a
set
> of XHTML-transitional templates and CSS to form the new design, using
> colors chosen by our marketing department as part of their branding
initiative.
>
>          The new site was developed under the auspices of a web committee,
> but this was one instance where the existence of a committee helped to
> overcome political obstacles rather than create them. The previous site
had
> been the creation of one or two people, so the committee was formed to
> represent all constituencies of our school. I was fortunate that no one
had
> ever been really happy with the previous site, so everyone was very
> supportive of a complete makeover.
>
> Amy
>
>
> At 10:27 AM 10/9/2003 -0700, Ari Feldman wrote:
> >Amy,
> >
> >Nice job! I wonder what the original looked like. It's always
> >interesting to see the difference. I'm actually in the process
> >of doing the same thing with the web sites of my corporate
> >master. Did you face any political obstacles during the process?
> >
> >
> >Also, after 4.75 years, i finally relaunched my personal web
> >site today at www.arifeldman.com. still trying to work out the
> >kinks, however.
> >
> >Ari
>
>
>   Amy W. Helfman
>   Manager of Web Technologies
>   Computer Operations, Jewish Theological Seminary
>
>   Voice: (212) 678-8043              Fax: (212) 678-8891
>   Email:  amhelfman@xxxxxxxx    Website:  www.jtsa.edu
>
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