At Tuesday’s IT Forum, staff members Lori Nidoh, Val Clark, and Matt Wren from PR and Joe Casabona from IR gave a joint presentation on the new design templates for the University website, which will go live in July.
The new designs are responsive, meaning that they’ll automatically adjust to the screen size of whatever device you’re using to view them. See slides (.ppsx) from the Forum presentation for a comparison of old vs new.
More specific information will be coming out for CMS users, but one of the more immediate changes that will need to be made is to banner images (e.g., on department pages or on faculty pages in the CMS that use the standard templates). The new designs are wider than the old (1280 x 361 pixels vs. 780 x 180 pixels), so properly sized images will be needed. You can pick a photo from the Photo Gallery, but you can also use your own image as long as it’s sized – see instructions in the slides (.ppsx).
We’ll post more information as we get it – in the meantime, please let TAG know if you have questions about the redesign.
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