Category Archives: Programs

Bates Home/Views: a one-year report

By Jay Collier | Published: March 9, 2010
The Home/Views site — the first phase of a whole-domain renovation for Bates College — was designed to improve first impressions, draw visitors toward their interests, and help them make a deeper connection with the College. We welcomed 260,000 absolute unique visitors to the combined www.bates.edu and home.bates.edu sites in January, 2010; annualized, that is [...]
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The new BatesNews

By Jay Collier | Published: March 9, 2010
Now that we have official content streaming through our news blog (Bates Views), the next step has been to help people subscribe directly to RSS and e-mail notifications based on their interests. This month, we began to transition our monthly BatesNews e-mail blast into our new Bates Updates e-mail campaign service.
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Web Hub FAQ number 1

By Jay Collier | Published: February 12, 2010
Here is the first set of frequently-asked questions about the Web Hub. What is the Web Hub? It will be a new way to publish department, program, and office content, and to connect with on- and off-campus people who are interested in Bates. The program covers the official sites of recognized College units. Individual and group sites [...]
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Focus on WordPress MU support

By Jay Collier | Published: February 10, 2010
At the end of a rapid (5-week) formal evaluation of Drupal and WordPress MU, I recommended that MU be the content platform of choice for our official site renovation project, the Web Hub. Our IT colleagues agreed and so, over the next several weeks, they’ll be installing, configuring, and testing the software so we can [...]
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