EDU Checkup: Claremont McKenna College, Tasmanian Academy, Duke University
Another full week of episodes, three sites with completely different strategies. The first, Claremont had great intentions but when it came to executing it didn’t pan out so well. The homepage was overtaken by large graphical tabs with news and events in mixed columns. Last but not least cutting off their news titles won’t help users decide if t

EDU Checkup: Colorado State, Fairfield, Grove City College
Last weekend marked the first birthday for EDU Checkup! With this exciting milestone comes a few goodies. The most important is a regular schedule and the return of the weekly wrap up on eduStyle. The others will be coming shortly. This week I reviewed three sites,

5 Lessons from the eduStyle Awards
It’s been over a month now since the eduStyle Awards. I just wanted to share a few lessons we can learn from the nominees and winners. These are things that I think all higher-ed designers and web workers can take heart in. 1. Small Schools Can Rock Last year Boston University walked away with a lot of awards. Because of that, some assumed you had to be a big school to compete. Looking at this year’s list of the nominations it’s clear small schools can not only compete, they can win. You could argue that as a rule, small schools are generally better at creating great websites. 2. The Past Doesn’t Matter With some determination and t

Three Design Insights from Law School Homepages
Below is a guest post from Roger V. Skalbeck. Roger is the Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources and Services at Georgetown Law Library and author of the Law School Website Design Study 2009. – During the beginning of 2009, I coordinated a project to collect and annotate screenshots of every law school homepage in the United States, as well as two in England.  This is the