I just got back from Austin. Here are my notes from some fantastic panels and keynote speeches. There is a lot to get through, but hey, stick with me. The Real Responsive Process These guys talked about the theory behind it, why we should be doing [...]
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SXSW 2013
Saturday, March 16th, 2013Rebranded
Friday, March 8th, 2013Maybe it’s a coincidence that we completed a re-branding effort with eleven of our twelve college websites around the same time that the new Beaver Athletics brand was launched. Like that effort, this project was a long time in the making. Three years, in our case. The colleges that opted to work with us, beginning [...]
Month in review.
Thursday, February 28th, 2013State-focused recruiting pages
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013We recently partnered with the Admissions Office at OSU to update some Web materials for state-by-state recruiting efforts. By building a custom experience for prospective students from individual states, we hope to personalize the digital admissions process, showing what it’s like to come to campus and give them state-specific information. The sites are simple, small [...]
Welcome to the Big Show!
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012Every year as a part of our paid sponsorship with Athletics we get to create a short video to be played during football games. Yes, that is accurate we (the university) have to pay to get a 30 second message up on the Jumbo Tron at each of our home football games. I understand it, but [...]
Three sites and a new designer
Thursday, June 7th, 2012The Web Comm team has had a hand in a few successes recently. We helped with the launch of three new websites, including the colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Education, as well as a new site for our Veterinary Hospital, which includes a fancy new parallax slider and a nifty video piece. Of course, Central [...]
An Event Apart
Monday, April 9th, 2012Last week I got a chance to attend An Event Apart in Seattle, here are some of my notes from the event, a lot was covered, these are just a few things that jumped out at me: Jeffrey Zeldman – Content First! Content is a design problem. Our designs are often hostile to content. Design [...]
We’re hiring!
Monday, March 12th, 2012We are looking for a designer who can make things move on the web. With a focus on After Effects for web and broadcast video and commercials, this designer will also design responsive interfaces for desktop, tablet and mobile sites, starting in Photoshop and winding up in HTML5, CSS and JQuery. Solid work ethic, curiosity [...]
Tools for checking your website
Thursday, March 8th, 2012Here are a pair of handy tools for checking accessibility and effectiveness of your website designs: Spur – This tool analyzes your page and allows you to put yourself in the position of a user with visual impairments through desaturating your page (color blindness), blurring the content or increasing contrast. These lenses also help you [...]
New College Websites
Monday, January 9th, 2012We’ve recently assisted with the launch of two major college websites at OSU as part of our ongoing effort to bring a common content management platform, page architecture and brand identity to the university. With the help of amazing partners at the College of Engineering and the College of Agricultural Sciences, we were able to [...]
