Boy, do I have blog post on my face. Last time I posted, I said that I was going to have an update for you by last friday with the newest version of our heading in it. Well…
That didn’t happen.
But: That’s ok.
Why?
When refreshing or designing a site, it’s normal to have things change. It’s also normal to expect that if one design element changes, other parts of the page need to change as well. This is what happened to us last week. That, coupled with a crush of work brought on by Sue’s impending vacation, meant that this just couldn’t be completed to everyone’s satisfaction by last friday.
Without an updated version of the header to share with you, I want to focus on the navigation we unveiled in the last post and highlight one item in particular:
News and Events
After a several year absence, news and events are returning to a prominent place in our main navigation. Sue said it before, but we’re telling stories in this new site. One of the lost stories about our campus, is just how much is going on, on campus! There are always events, news, and more going on at Buffalo State College. Unfortunately, what we often hear, is that people don’t always know what’s happening on campus. We highlight items on our homepage, list them in the events calendar, the Daily, department and office sites, as well as throughout our main site. Despite this, we still hear a need for more information.
Pulling out news and events into their own section is exciting! It will help first-time visitors to the site, as well as the campus community, have a very visible overview of what’s happening on campus. It will also allow us to showcase the news and community we have—in the Bulletin, Blog Central, the View photo gallery, the Ask Buffalo State and Buffalo State Forums, and more—that make up such a vital part of the story of Buffalo State, both on- and offline.
Of course, we can’t do it without you. If you have an event to promote, submit it to the events calendar, then record it for a podcast. Have an announcement? Put it in the Daily! News can be shared via our news releases. There are a lot of tools that already exist for you to promote your event, yourself, and Buffalo State, to the world—and there are more to come!
This is a basic overview of where we’re going. More specifics will come soon—which, I’ve learned, is the safest timeframe to give sometimes.
How does this sound to you? Good? Bad? Somewhere in the middle? Leave a comment below and let us know.
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