Launch: Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters
It’s finally time to reveal a project I, and the Notre Dame Web Group, have been working on for so long. I would like to introduce the brand new Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters web site. The site is a compilation of effort from our entire team, as well as key personnel in Arts and Letters, and has been in the works for over 14 months. I’m proud of the work accomplished by all the members of our team including direction, project management, writing, and development.
A huge amount of technology and planning went into this site, and it is one of the largest I have ever worked on. The administrators for Arts and Letters are to be congratulated for putting their full trust in our team and our standards-based methodology. They trusted us to develop a site they could be proud of, and the result is one of the most advanced sites in the entire University, and, what I believe, one of the best sites among their global University peers.
Our group has accomplished so much at Notre Dame, but there is so much more to do. The University is fully behind us in our support for web standards, our desire to incorporate integrated marketing, and our requirement of top-notch quality. If you appreciate the commitment of the Arts and Letters administration to deliver world-class marketing technology, contact them and let them know their undertaking has not gone unnoticed or unrealized.
I am so happy to see this site launched, and I hope you enjoy.
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The site looks really great. I really really like the menus being at the top, that’s really slick.
May I ask what content management system you use for it?
September 6th, 2005
Topher: It’s a custom CMS. It incorporates many other ND systems to integrate the data into one package. For updating static text, we will be using Macromedia Contribute. We find it to be one of the easiest, most intuitive, and reliable methods for distributing the load of updating content.
September 6th, 2005
nicely done to the team… love the look and feel, love the random images that come up in the various sections, and I really love how the secondary nav’s connect to the main nav on each section. That’s some damn clean CSS too (sorry for peaking, couldn’t resist.) -steve
September 6th, 2005
Very nice site! As an alumnus I can say ND has some of the more boring academic websites around. When they were new, they looked great; they just don’t have that same luster five or six years later. This new look for Art and Legos site looks excellent and timeless (as the web goes).
September 6th, 2005
Steve well done bro. I can’t recall how many times I’ve cursed at my University’s website back in college. What’s most impressive is that it’s not exactly cutting edge graphics or anything. It’s simple, elegant, and powerful. Very modern and ikea-esk. Makes you just wanna take a snapshot and hang it up in your livingroom (or maybe that’s a bit much).
Any chance on killing the whitespace above the doctype? I’m sure that’s a result of the content manager you’re using. Often PHP will strip that for you, but if you’re building stuff that is not compiled, for instance C++, every linebreak will show up in your final output.
September 7th, 2005
Increase the font size. The box headers start to look bad. Fix it like in Bulletproof Web Design!
September 9th, 2005