[webproducers] Re: New website
- From: Ari Feldman <outdoorminer2002@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:06:10 -0700 (PDT)
sounds like progress compared to your last site.
i'm facing so much politics and territorial pissing, it's
ridiculous. at least in my case, it's more or less my show. i'm
the linux admin, PM, info architect, programmer and HTML monkey
all rolled into one. at least we having a pro design the look
and feel but that's about it.
hopefully, i'll survive the process!
--- "A.Helfman" <amhelfman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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