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Attention Pacific: Best Practices/Benchmark Sites needed

November 10, 2009 - 10:03am — tlopez3

Good Morning All,

Lynn Donham from EM2 is wrapping up the website needs assessment and is still waiting to hear from many of you with "best practices" found on other sites (education or non-education) or benchmark sites that she can reference for your respective areas. 

This feedback would be very beneficial for her as she lays out a recommendation plan for our 2010 Pacific Website.

Your assistance with this is much appreciated!

Tanya

Comments

November 10, 2009 - 6:11pm — sandrees
Boston University's College of Fine Arts website has some nice design elements: http://www.bu.edu/cfa/ I like the unobtrusive global menu along the top. I don't usually like animation but this one is well-done, it's not sudden or distracting. I really like the three-column layout that makes it very clear that there are three sections to the website. The links for each section are even colored differently, which sounds like a bad idea but the implementation actually looks good. I really like the interior pages too (for example, http://www.bu.edu/cfa/theatre/). They maintain the three-column menu along the top, which is nice. And all of the interior pages look good (except the ones with a lot of text, light-on-dark text is okay in very short bursts, but it's hard to read a lot of text that way.) The interior pages have nice photo strips along the top (e.g. http://www.bu.edu/cfa/theatre/sti/). They've created different styles, like the black background for "Summer 2009 program dates". One thing I want to make sure of on this project is that we get styles for internal page elements: lists, forms, headers, blockquotes, images, etc.