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Redesigns 2012: Daily Nebraskan

September 27, 2012 in Redesigns, Websites

The Daily Nebraskan recently switched from College Publisher to TownNews, and along with the switch, a redesign. Here’s the new site:

And here’s their redesign from 2011:

Dan Shattil notes in an e-mail: “We’re still tweaking it but it allowed us to post a Tom Osborne Legacy section we developed last night following the Athletic Director’s announcement yesterday of his retirement. This includes an interactive timeline the staff created last night.”

The black “white space” is a definite contrast, and again, there’s an emphasis on more graphics on the page. Multimedia is also prominent near the top of the page. One thing I’m not necessarily a fan of is putting an advertising banner between the site header and the content. We debated that at the DEN when we redesigned last year. The TownNews CMS allows a lot of “tweaking” within the confines of the overall site design, so it will be interesting to see how the site evolves as they get more time to experiment.

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Redesigns 2012: KSU Sentinel

September 18, 2012 in Redesigns, Websites

The Kennesaw State U. Sentinel redesigned their website recently. Taylor White writes in an e-mail that the Sentinel “previously used a standard WordPress template. The layout was created to match the new look of the printed paper–both designed by former website manager Chris Dailey.”

This really is a major redesign, as the old site had a “blog-like” look. The new design features large graphics, bold headlines, and a clear navigation structure in the left sidebar. The one thing I might suggest is moving the search bar to the top of the right ad sidebar. Web readers expect a search box at the top of the page somewhere.

Here’s the new site:

Here’s the old site:

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Redesigns 2012: Red & Black

July 11, 2012 in industry news, Redesigns, Websites

It’s mid-summer, and we’ve got our first redesign of the new school year. The Red & Black at UGA recently switched CMS’s from WordPress to TownNews.

Here’s the new front page:

and here’s their old design from 2010:

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Redesigns 2011: WVU Daily Athenaeum

November 15, 2011 in Redesigns

The Daily Athenaeum at West Virginia University just updated the design of their web site, run on College Publisher. Here’s a screenshot of the new design.

And here’s a screenshot from Archive.org from February:

The most dramatic change appears to be the header, which is larger and uses more white space. They also seem to have made the choice to emphasize the web address as opposed to the newspaper name. Notice as well that they cut down the number of items in the nav bar from 10 to eight – features and blogs being eliminated.

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Redesigns 2011: UC News-Record

November 9, 2011 in Redesigns

The News-Record at the University of Cincinnati relaunched their website recently.

The new site runs on the Griphon system from Detroit SoftWorks:

The old site, from archive.org:

The new site has more color in the (thinner) nav bar and a bolder nameplate. It’s hard to judge the columns on the new site, since the dominant art focuses on an important election story. The interior pages do show a greater variety of stories and look more like traditional newspaper section fronts.

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Redesigns 2011: The Argonaut

October 25, 2011 in Redesigns

The Argonaut at the University of Idaho redesigned their website this semester.

Here’s the new design:

And here’s the old design:

The new design abandons the light blue and rainbow color palette for a more staid black and white look. Web exclusives are promoted prominently, while the social media buttons are de-emphasized.

Via Madison McCord.

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Redesigns 2011: Golden Gate Xpress

October 24, 2011 in Redesigns

The Golden Gate Xpress at San Francisco State University updated their web site this semester.

Here’s the new site:

And here’s the old layout for comparison:

The old design was basically similar to what it had been since 2007. The new design gets rid of the left nav bar and adds white space to the top of the page. They’ve also updated the nameplate. Also note the prominent placement of links to their social media channels.

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Redesigns 2011: Blot (University of Idaho)

October 20, 2011 in Redesigns

The University of Idaho’s Blot student magazine has redesigned for 2011. Here’s the new design:

Here’s the redesign from 2010, from our post:

Via Madison McCord

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Redesigns 2011: Daily Eastern News

October 10, 2011 in Redesigns, Websites

The Daily Eastern News, where I am the adviser to the online staff, has updated its web design this semester. Here’s the new site:



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And here’s what it looked like previously:

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In addition to the redesign, we’ve also changed the URL. Readers of the newspaper are directed to dailyeasternnews.com in promos and articles. The old URL, dennews.com, still works, but pedants (like me) always grated at the use of the extra “n” in dennews.com.

We also changed content management system hosts from College Publisher to TownNews.

The previous design has served the paper well, but it was long in the tooth (designed originally in 2007 by Matt Wills).

If your college news organization has redesigned their website, send me an e-mail (see the left-side rail for the address) or comment on one of these posts, which are archived under the category Redesigns.

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Redesigns 2011: UAB Kaleidoscope

September 15, 2011 in Redesigns, Websites

The Kaleidoscope at the University of Alabama-Birmingham recently redesigned their home page and migrated to a new WordPress CMS.

Production Manager Bill Neville writes:

We were able to migrate content from two old sites, including one that we had used for years originally created by some students in Murray, Ky. at the Pacer Times and another aggregator site we created a few years ago in WordPress.

During the migration, we were also able to preserve all of our Google indexing so there are virtually no broken links or 404s from our archive of stories

Here’s the new site:

Here’s a screenshot from archive.org from June, 2011:

The navigation on the new site is definitely less confusing, and there’s more white space all around. Also, more graphics in prominent position.

If your college news organization has redesigned their website, send me an e-mail (see the left-side rail for the address) or comment on one of these posts, which are archived under the category Redesigns.

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