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I successfully launched the new Champaign City Site last Friday (6/11). The Phase II site redesign features a new look for all the secondary site pages (90+). The site also now features:

• no frames throughout
• a browser-based custom CMS to manage all site content
• a browser-based custom CMS to manage all News, Calendar, and Employment entries
• site-wide, user toggle-able, Text-Only display
• CSS positioning is used for the bulk of the site
• tables used only for tabular data and minor site structure(home, header, footer)

Glennweb.net work on the site included:

• development of the CMS database(MySql)
• development of the browser-based CMS (PHP/MySql)
• development of CSS positioning, layout, and display
• templating of the new site design (PHP, phpTemplates)
• development of the Text-Only site wide feature
• conversion and integration of all content to the new CMS (90+ pages)
• testing and deployment of the final site

The site was designed by John Bonadies.

 

The UIUC School of Music site has received three awards recently: the UIUC Webmaster’s 2004 “People’s Choice” award, a CHAAMPS Gold web site award, and a CHAAMPS Jury web site award. It’s great to have the site recognized by other parties.

The site has a very eye-catching design thanks to John Bonadies and was very interesting to implement (hybrid CSS site, very few tables). The true test though is the client’s experience. All signs point to a very successful site, the Music School’s enrollments are up (partly thanks to new online enrollments) and after looking at comparable schools online efforts I believe the new site puts the UIUC at the forefront.

Joe Gillespie has a great idea for rollovers. Using the hindsight is 20/20, blindingly obvious test, this one should have been thought of much earlier (we used this technique over 20 years ago on Apple IIs and other ‘micro’ platforms). By me even, oh well, here it is: Web Page Design for Designers : Film Strip Rollovers