New Web Site in Design; Your Input Requested!
In 2008, FDU’s Web site will be revamped with special emphasis on services to the prospective student, especially the prospective full-time undergraduate student. Bernetta Millonde, vice president for enrollment management (Metro/Flor), noted that success with this audience causes ripples of success throughout every other aspect of university planning.
FDU has contracted with Datatel Inc., which provides the back-office processing software for the University’s enrollment management, to provide a new level of interactivity and customization to the Web site. It will allow prospects who have registered to log in during future visits to the site and be greeted by name and with content tailored to their expressed interests in majors, co-curricular activities, athletics and choice of FDU campus. Additional features — such as interesting “FDU First” facts and human interest stories on faculty, staff, students and alumni — will be added to encourage visitors to the Web site.
Through its recent acquisition of the Web design firm Liquid Matrix, Datatel is now a one-stop shop for both admissions-related programming and for Web-site design. At FDU, the decision was made to redesign the entire Web site in order to give all areas of the University access to Datatel’s greater capabilities and interactivity.
Currently, Datatel has developed two designs for consideration, and comments are being solicited from the University community on those designs. Each of the two designs is represented by a mock-up of the University main page (www.fdu.edu) and by a mock-up of an interior page to provide a model of what the thousands of FDU pages beyond the main page would look like. Members of the University community are invited to view and share their thoughts on these four images — two pages for each of the two designs — at http://www.fdu.edu/2008/twodesigns.html . Click the link on that page for a form to offer comments to the design team regarding either or both designs. For comparison, the corresponding current FDU page designs are also shown.
Although each of the two designs has its own constellation of features and layout, it is possible that elements of the two designs will be combined. It is appropriate for comments to indicate features of one design that should be carried over into the other to achieve the best of both worlds.
“Make your voice heard and share our pride in the new look when it lights up your screen in the spring of 2008,” said William Kennedy, University webmaster (Metro/Flor).
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December 2007/
January 2008
| · | New Web Site in Design; Your Input Requested! |
| · | Winter Study Abroad and More |
| · | ‘MiraeRo!’ Offers Korean-speaking Adults Opportunity to Earn Degree |
| · | PublicMind Polls Politics, Iraq, Driving Habits, Sopranos |
| · | Alumnus Becomes First University Donor to Fund Charitable Gift Annuity |
| · | University Calendar, December–January |
| · | Stewart Krentzman Appointed to Board of Trustees |
| · | Faculty/Staff — Update, Welcome |
| · | College Happenings |
| · | Spotlight — Boyd, Deleppo, Houle, Mazur |
| · | This & That |
| · | Photo Story — Volunteer Activities. |
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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.
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Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.
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Inside FDU on the Web is published by the Office of Communications and Marketing. Newsletter Staff: Carol Black, editor; Mary Ann Bautista, Mariellen Brown, Angelo Carfagna, Scott Giglio, Howard Gilman, Emilio Javier, Gretchen Johnson, William Kennedy, Lillian Lukac, Rebecca Maxon, Art Petrosemolo, Beth Reuse, Shweta Kulkarni Van Biesen, Kevin Wisch.