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Blasts from the past
Apr. 6th, 2007 10:36 pmI was just trolling through some Victoria University web stuff for a particular reason, and I thought I'd check in on the site that I ended up implementing for the School I worked for initially when I returned to NZ. Now, I am not a web designer. I was hired to administer the school's servers and to maintain the lab machines. The School had spent over $5000 on redesigning their website (carried out by students and a senior tutor with Flash as the sole navigation method), and it was unusable. The University's marketing department were developing new Dreamweaver templates for use by the Departments and Schools, and I volunteered us to be among the first to implement them. At least before anyone seriously talked about implementing the crap site, which was not better than nothing.
Now, the templates as they were designed were fairly eh. Here is an example from the HSS Faculty, and here is the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. Since the School of Information Management was part of the FCA (and still is), we had to base our colour scheme off the green for the faculty. However, the useful thing was that the School had just been moved into new, fairly funky premises, and I borrowed a few shots that someone took of some architectural elements for the design.
So, here's the SIM website. It is almost exactly the same as how I initially designed it over 3 years ago, cute drop-down menus and all. The School title is still a tad small. No-one's added to the header image, which was my intention (I think a few more thumbnail shots would have been good). And no-one has implemented pics on the title page, which was my intention as well, but which I ran out of time to do (like on the Law Faculty page). Well, I suppose it proves that my 3-month rush job to implement it before moving roles has been functional enough in the interim.
Also talking of things not changing at all in the interim, there is the grand total of 6 new staff out of 45 in the department - two new academics, one new senior tutor (new roles), and two new administrative roles. The senior academic staff haven't changed in the slightest. I can't see anyone "missing", and the only swap is that the guy who replaced me is now the "senior administrator" (I see that it's no longer a management role), and there is a new guy for the donkey-work job. Hah.
ETA: There's a new feature in Google Maps called My Maps. I've made one featuring all the places in which I've lived. While I may have missed one or two, 26 different houses in four cities in three countries isn't exactly shabby (in a horrible "I've moved waaaay too much" kind of way).
Now, the templates as they were designed were fairly eh. Here is an example from the HSS Faculty, and here is the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. Since the School of Information Management was part of the FCA (and still is), we had to base our colour scheme off the green for the faculty. However, the useful thing was that the School had just been moved into new, fairly funky premises, and I borrowed a few shots that someone took of some architectural elements for the design.
So, here's the SIM website. It is almost exactly the same as how I initially designed it over 3 years ago, cute drop-down menus and all. The School title is still a tad small. No-one's added to the header image, which was my intention (I think a few more thumbnail shots would have been good). And no-one has implemented pics on the title page, which was my intention as well, but which I ran out of time to do (like on the Law Faculty page). Well, I suppose it proves that my 3-month rush job to implement it before moving roles has been functional enough in the interim.
Also talking of things not changing at all in the interim, there is the grand total of 6 new staff out of 45 in the department - two new academics, one new senior tutor (new roles), and two new administrative roles. The senior academic staff haven't changed in the slightest. I can't see anyone "missing", and the only swap is that the guy who replaced me is now the "senior administrator" (I see that it's no longer a management role), and there is a new guy for the donkey-work job. Hah.
ETA: There's a new feature in Google Maps called My Maps. I've made one featuring all the places in which I've lived. While I may have missed one or two, 26 different houses in four cities in three countries isn't exactly shabby (in a horrible "I've moved waaaay too much" kind of way).
