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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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Redesigns 2011: Otterbein360

September 14, 2011 in Redesigns, Websites

Otterbein360, the combined web site for student media at Otterbein University, redesigned recently, using the Detroit Softworks Gryphon CMS. Here’s the new look:

And here’s a screenshot from Archive.org showing the old look from February, 2011:

I like the lighter look with more white space. The slimmed-down logo also looks nice.

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: The East Carolinian

September 12, 2011 in Redesigns, Websites

UPDATE: As sometimes happens, the Archive.org link was not a recent version of the EC. I’ve replaced it with a more current version – ed.

The East Carolinian at East Carolina University recently redesigned their site. The new site uses the WordPress CMS, hosted by College Publisher. Student Media Director Paul Isom said the staff has already taken advantages of new features of the site: “Using WordPress has already freed us up to do some new things, including live blogging the first football game of the season vs. South Carolina in Charlotte.”

Here’s the new site:

Here’s a screenshot of the old site from the Wayback Machine dated June 6, 2011:

Lots of improvements in the new design, which is based on a theme by Gabfire Themes. I do think the header may be a little large, especially with the two decks of navigation underneath. This doesn’t cause problems on a large screen, but someone looking at the site on a 13″ laptop, for instance, would have a lot of screen real estate taken up by the flag.

What do you think?

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: St. Louis Community College – Meramec

September 7, 2011 in Redesigns, Websites

The SLCC-M Montage moved to WordPress this semester, and here is their new design:

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Here’s a screenshot from archive.org of their old design:

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The two-column format seems to look more pleasing. More white space, more graphic elements. There still seems to be a bit of navigation bar confusion at the top of the page. What do you think?

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