University of Richmond
- Previous Template Design
- Khoi Pond Template Design
University of Richmond web site design 2005 to 2009:
Additional Collateral, Supporting Site Templates:
This represent the various designs that span the university’s web presence that includes the five schools, depoartments, alumni site, admissions and internal gateways.
This is the previous iteration of Spider Diaries, UR's online student journals. These were built in Wordpress Multi-User using the K2 template that was then modified to fit into the admissions template system.
We shot a series of videos of students answering the most common questions posed to admissions. We then set up a touch screen monitor in the admissions office where prospective students and their families could then interact with the kiosk.
Additional Collateral, Supporting Blog Templates:
Every member of the campus community is provided with personal web space. In an attempt to provide faculty and staff with a university branded option for a web site or blog, Wordpress Multi-User was purchased and implemented. The above represents the formally branded template that was designed and then built from the K2 Wordpress theme platform.
In addition, I designed a series of informally branded templates.
In the summer of 2005 we finally began to redesign the univerity website. We looked at competing univerity sites as well as web sites that received high traffic from high school students. These are my first round of studies based on intial criteria.
These were the final round in which you can see the evolution of how the final design developed.
University of Richmond, Khoi Pond template:
The Master Plan web site was interesting in that the departments involved did not want to be in the existing template system. How do you have a site on the master plan without being a part of the master plan? This didn't make any sense. Against better judgement, I created a series of comps that tied in with the existing templates but could stand apart. From here, I created additional templates that tied more closely into the current template but provided them with the visual impact they were looking for.
This design ties in with the Modlin Center template but replacing the background on the masthead and tweaks the color palette a bit.
These three iterations are modifications to the gallery template that is already a part of the existing template strategy.
