The MarTech website is complete and you can view it here. Launching the site had it’s fair share of snags but overall an improvement compared to the original.
While you are enjoying the new MarTech website, have a look at the wp-theme I threw together for the News and Events Blog.
“Threw together” is really a good description for how that project went down. I started and finished it very quickly. I wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel for this project. I just wanted an updated look that matched the rest of the CFCC.edu website.
Wow. Time flies huh. The undead Cape Fear Bond site launched a long time ago. You can go check it out.
One of the features that pushed the development of the Cape Fear Bond site is the web cam. Our web cam has arrived and it’s mount is currently being fabricated. It will be placed on the north-west corner of the L building at the downtown campus.
In the fall of 2008 Cape Fear region voters overwhelmingly voted yes to enact a 146 million dollar bond that would allow Cape Fear Community College to build new classroom buildings and dramatically expand it’s capability to offer educational services to the region.
At that time I had created a brochure site to help promote the bond and the college. That site is still up, lurching through the internet in undead grotesqueness. It is un-updated, un-loved and you can see it here.
It needs to come down.
Today I launched the new CFCC home page redesign. The page was redesigned to provide more “real estate” and to make content and navigation more obvious and easy to access. A new section of content was added that will feature promotional “Blurbs”. The “Blurbs” will be promote special events, policy changes, new programs and important announcements that will be displayed temporarily on the home page.
The requests for “prominent” links to Apply Now and Schedule of Classes pages on the home page has prompted the usual response in the form of a question. Where? Where should I put these new page elements on a tiny island in a sea of hexi-decimal grey?
Well, how about more real estate. If you don’t have enough room, then take it. Kinda’ like Manifest Destiny for web pages. It is ordained that we shall expand.
My whiteboard has not had snarky drawings on it for a while now. It has been used for a more practical purpose, to list the array of projects I can choose from on a daily basis to work on.
To that end here are some project updates:
The UI for the Virtual Campus Tours. Is now much more than and PSD comp. The site is up on the server but it is not linked to anything and I’m certainly not promoting it. The hold up as usual is the content (or the lack there of). It’s just a matter of time but the video and 360 panoramas are in production.
