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Jun 11 2009

Content within and without

Posted by hfinberg

Today's call with our developers produced an "ahh" moment: Where should course content reside within the Drupal framework? Should courses launch in their own window so we don't need to deal with frames, etc.? Could that be confusing? Would we need a different navigation.

On the positive side: Courses could have a "wide open" look and feel.
On the negative side: Consistency, user experience, navigation.

It is a challenge when you move to a new site: how much do you twist what you have done [in the past] to what you can do [in the future, with the new system]?

We have signed off on the basic wireframe concepts. I probably not going to post wireframes. Too many "assumptions" built in to the look that aren't really the look/UI of the new site.

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Aug 4 2009

Now the fun begins

Posted by hfinberg

We have been quiet lately. Too quiet. But there's not much to post on this blog when much of the technical work won't matter to most folks. So long as it works.

However, we are about to make some important decisions. We are looking at design mockups and starting to get into the redesign weeds.

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Aug 5 2009

A little more about our new course page

Posted by hfinberg

On our new site Course listings page we'll have many ways to find courses. This new page, on the new site, will replace our LEAST favorite page -- that long, long listing of course titles. Four years ago, it didn't matter. We didn't have that many courses. Today, it is just overwhelming.

We'll be adding a search box, just for courses [Yea!]. And we'll have a site search function as well.

However, one of the design/functionality features that has us excited involves "browsing."

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Oct 26 2009

It's been quiet, too quiet

Posted by hfinberg

Yes, we are STILL very quiet about the new NewsU site. It isn't that we haven't had much to say. We have. However, taken out of context, our posts wouldn't made much sense to folks outside the project.

So, what have we been doing since the item I wrote about "Now the fun begins"? [See below.]

Beyond the conference calls -- lots of them -- and the lists of things to do, our developers [http://www.atendesign.com] and the NewsU Crew have been working on three major aspects of the project:

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Jan 22 2010

One Step Closer

Posted by hfinberg

We made a big step yesterday. At 5:30 p.m., Eastern Time, we made the first of two technology changes to the new site and technology platform for Poynter's News University project: We turned off the registration system on the old site and are now signing up folks only on the new platform.

After 133,804 users, our final sign-up on the platform was a student from the journalism school at the University of Minnesota. Go Gophers.

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