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 __________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message with unsubscribe in the subject to webproducers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To access our webform to subscribe, unsubscribe, and manage your subscription (digest and vacation) visit www.WebProducers.org. The WPO list is a public discussion forum with a public archive at www.WebProducers.org. Be sure to trim your posts and delete personal information such as telephone numbers if you do not want them as part of the archive.