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A sample of a tag cloud A major problem with any news site is the search engine. If users have troubles locating a specific story that isn’t a few clicks away, chances are they won’t revisit your site. So what’s the best way to please your visitors who want to find that story that never appeared on . . . → Read More: Tagging & subcategories: organizing online content The Daily Campus at Southern Methodist University launched a new design for their web site over winter break. The paper also upgraded to College Publisher 5. Editor Meredith Shamburger says the staff hopes to produce more multimedia and use the redesigned site to develop a web-first mentality. If your student media outlet web site has undergone a . . . → Read More: SMU Daily Campus redesigns site  Comments are closed  Websites, showcase  college newspapers, College Publisher, smu daily campus, web design The Red and Black at the University of Georgia has switched from College Publisher to a WordPress system, hosted by CoPress. Along with the new CMS, the R&B freshened up their design. Chelsea Cook and Daniel Burnett talked about the switch in this article. The Chronicle at Quinnipiac University has also moved to WordPress through CoPress. And the . . . → Read More: Redesigns: Red and Black, QU Chronicle, and WKUHerald Comments are closed College Media, College Media News, Websites College Heights Herald, college newspapers, QU Chronicle, Red and Black, web site design, web sites, Wordpress In addition to covering the Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2, reporters from the Daily Toreador have had to spend the Christmas break covering the firing of Coach Mike Leach. In addition to posting stories to their web site, the Toreador staff have been keeping readers up to speed through their Twitter feed. Earlier, I posted that bowl-bound . . . → Read More: Daily Toreador covers more than Alamo Bowl when coach is fired
Last week, I noticed via twitter (@danielbachhuber) that the Daily Tar Heel had launched an iPhone app, developed with Amuzu, Inc. Going to the link, I noticed that the Daily Illini and the Daily Sundial at Cal State-Northridge had also worked with Amuzu to develop their iPhone apps. (all those links are . . . → Read More: iPhone apps for college media The semester is winding down, but for college media staffs who cover football teams that are invited to bowl games, the work has only just begun. That’s right, college football’s major conferences continue with their bogus championship series, meaning another round of endless controversy because apparently the biggest colleges in the country can’t figure out how to . . . → Read More: College media bowl coverage list More on the redesign front: The Indiana Daily Student has been updating their look this year. Adviser Melinda Aston says: The IDS web site launched a preliminary redesign in February. We added more new stuff over the summer and launched them for the start of the fall semester. New updates include multimedia section, feature browse tool on front . . . → Read More: More redesigns: IDS, Advance-Titan Comments are closed Websites College Publisher, Indiana Daily Student, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wordpress
Editor’s Note: I recently wrote a post about using a pre-made content management system vs. building one from the ground up (link). Madison McCord represents a different perspective on the debate. I asked him to share his thoughts on the blog. What follows are his thoughts. It is safe to say that the . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Hand-coding vs. CMS? Hand-coding gives essential experience Reminder: If your college media outlet redesigned its web site this summer, e-mail me at scmurley -at-gmail.com, or drop a comment below to be included in this series. (Previous posts here, here, here, and here) The Maine Campus redesigned on a WordPress CMS, moving from College Publisher v. 4. Editor William Davis writes: I designed the new template from . . . → Read More: Redesigns: Maine, Wartburg Comments - (Comments are closed) College Media, Websites Content management system, Maine Campus, Wartburg College, Website Reminder: If your college media outlet redesigned its web site this summer, e-mail me at scmurley -at-gmail.com, or drop a comment below to be included in this series. (Previous posts here, here, and here) The Diamondback at the University of Maryland updated their site design this summer as well. It went live Monday. . . . → Read More: More redesigns: Diamondback, InsideVandy, Mason Votes and the Gargoyle Comments - (Comments are closed) Websites Flagler College, George Mason University, University of Maryland, web site design |
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