New Web Site Design Rollout Almost Ready
The last week of May is the target date for the rollout of the new look and functionality of the FDU Web site. The new Web site design was commissioned from Datatel, Inc., and incorporates larger fonts, better use of screen space and new template options for the content authors. Examples of the new page appearance are available online at http://www.fdu.edu/2008/comingattractions/ .
Noticeable at the top of the new designs are added options for ease of use. From any new page of the site, a visitor will be able to use handy tools to resize the print on the page, reformat the page to print it or send the page’s URL to a friend or colleague. The same group of tools includes an easy A-to-Z directory of FDU offices and resources and a new sitewide search tool. The Web site’s sitewide search will now use Google technology, so all the tricks and techniques that can be used to refine a Web-wide search at Google.com will be able to be applied to a sitewide search at FDU. The new search capability is available to test-drive at http://www.fdu.edu/webresources/allsearch.html or by clicking on Campus Directory on current FDU pages. The new Google-driven search is a link at the bottom of the current Find It at FDU page.
FDU’s Web site has used the “content management” concept since 2004. Within a consistent general page layout, FDU’s thousands of Web pages are created and maintained by hundreds of content authors and managers throughout the University’s academic departments and administrative offices. That successful model for Web site maintenance continues in May with its new design.
The changes expected at the end of May are steps in a continuing process of refinement for the FDU Web site. Still in the development queue are special features for the admissions pages that will personalize FDU’s site for prospective students.
top of this page table of contents for this issue
April/May 2008
| · | Commencement Scheduled for May 20 |
| · | Faculty Authors, Grant Seekers Honored |
| · | Campus Projects Feature New Plaza |
| · | Naimoli to Be Honored at Charter Day, PINNACLE Society to Induct Five Alumni |
| · | Business and Investment Opportunities in European Union Focus of Day |
| · | Next Generation of Green Businesses to Be Discussed |
| · | War on Terror, Human Rights Symposium Held |
| · | New Web Site Design Rollout Almost Ready |
| · | FDU Offers Summer Camps for Children, Teens |
| · | Faculty/Staff — Update, In Memoriam, Welcome |
| · | College Happenings |
| · | Spotlight — Alonso, Brown, Purnell, Wojtaszek |
| · | This & That |
| · | Photo Stories — Graduation Salute, Green Day, Community Involvement, Christie Speaks on Corruption. |
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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, Gretchen Johnson, William Kennedy, Lillian Lukac, Rebecca Maxon, Art Petrosemolo, Shweta Kulkarni Van Biesen, Kevin Wisch.