News

Redesigning the Grinnell College Website: Part 1

As we've been working on redesigning the main website for Grinnell College, they asked us if we'd be interested in guest blogging as we went along. Below is our first post:<…
Have it your way

Aug 21, 2012

How do you like your web? On your laptop? An iPad? A smartphone? On your huge monitor that doubles as a way to catch up on your favorite TV shows? Are you a keyboard junkie who barely touches your…
Griswold College

Aug 10, 2012

We recently received an interesting question regarding the relationship between Griswold College, in Davenport, IA, and Grinnell College, and whether Grinnell had ever been called Griswold. We had…
Jamaica Kincaid, 2012 Commencement Speaker

Aug 04, 2012

Award-winning writer and professor Jamaica Kincaid address the Class of 2012.
Shonda Kuiper, mathematics, awarded the 2012 MERLOT Classics Award

Aug 03, 2012

2012 Merlot Classics Award - Stat2Labs

The Sloan Consortium
Newburyport, Ma.,…
We love all our children equally

Jul 27, 2012

Posted by: Jim Reische

In my last post I compared website development to a family dinner: it’s…
Preparing for Renovation

Jul 27, 2012

The audit identified high-impact tasks that we could complete right away. First, the site theme color was blue. So we changed it to scarlet and black. Second, the site search didn't work, so…
Web Audit

Jul 26, 2012

While we were spending a lot of time on the back-end of our web management, our site grew, organically, freely, and not necessarily coherently. So we decided to take the next, long overdue step:…
Moving to Drupal

Jul 23, 2012

We assembled a big representative committee with representatives of students, faculty and staff, looked at several systems, from proprietary to open-source, from commercial to free, and discussed…
One big (happy?) family

Jul 18, 2012

There are some peculiar challenges in building a college website. One of the biggest is the fact that colleges—and thus college sites—have to serve multiple constituencies.