{"id":5997,"date":"2014-03-31T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2014-03-31T13:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T18:53:38","slug":"new-morningside-website-narrows-focus-to-prospective-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/5997","title":{"rendered":"New Website Narrows Focus to Prospective Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"morningside_college_logo\"By Hannah Hecht–<\/strong>The newly redesigned Morningside College website<\/a> went live earlier last week. Its implementation is part of a campus-wide project to improve the quality of Morningside\u2019s online presence.<\/p>\n

The new site features a sleeker, more modern style, with a user-friendly interface and simple navigation. The website has narrowed its emphasis and now concentrates on attracting prospective students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus of the site is a lot different,\u201d said Kevin Pottebaum, Morningside\u2019s digital communications manager. \u201cThe old one was an osh-posh of different stuff with no target audience. Now, prospective students are the main emphasis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pottebaum, along with Jenny Thomas, publications editor and writer, and Dave Rebstock, sports information director, worked with the website development firm Click Rain on the project. The group wanted the Morningside website to stand out against other college websites.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got some ideas from other college\u2019s sites, but we wanted to differentiate ourselves,\u201d said Pottebaum. \u201cWe wanted to be a little more mobile friendly. The new site has a responsive design on smartphone, tablet, or computer screen with the same functionality on all different platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many students across campus have had positive responses to the redesign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the new website will help more students want to come to Morningside because it\u2019s more professional,\u201d said freshman Tracy Gates, \u201cIt makes us look like we\u2019re the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, some students, faculty, and staff are having trouble finding information they used to have easy access to on the old site. For example, the new site doesn\u2019t include a link to the academic calendar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the future, we would like for anyone on campus to be able to find anything that they would need on the intranet [the Morningside Portal page],\u201d Pottebaum said. \u201cThe hope was that we would launch them [the redesigned website and the redesigned Portal] around the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Morningsiders will have to wait a little while to use the redesigned Portal because the key organizer behind the project in the information technology department left the college earlier this year. It will be a little longer before the new intranet design goes \u201clive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new site is housed at the usual domain: http:\/\/www.morningside.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And luckily, anyone looking for information found on the old site can access it at oldwww.morningside.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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