In a couple weeks I should be able to debut this College website I’ve spent maybe the past year and a half working on. It’ll be little nuts, not because some 100k visitors hit this site per month, or 4k per day. Heck, I’ve done similar site swaps for an ISP back in the day where just a slight change means being bombarded with phone calls all day long.
I think the freak out will most likely come from faculty and staff members of the College who have somehow avoided hearing, meeting or seeing me in all my countless visits and newsletters mentioning the swap. Somehow they’re going to see the new website the day-after and then all hell breaks loose on me “Why did you not include my section?” “Where’s my forms!” “Gaaaaaaah!”
Well, bring em on, at least I’m ready.
End-of-the-day this project will forever be remembered by me not particularly because of design at all. I’ve somehow ended up spending 99.9% of my time getting people coordinated, fixing content, planning how students might try to find information and fixing site architecture. The fact I SOMEhow managed to get 400+ faculty members and staff (with long lists of alphabets listing degrees after their names) to all play nice let me run with this thing is something that I’m satisfied with.
Because I hear that’s why the old site (pictured above) wasn’t changed in 10+ years. Let’s see how this goes…I’m either going to post my success here in a couple weeks or end up ranting up a storm.
LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching