Next Step: Open Forum, June 9, Noon-1, Room 730

Now that we have input from everyone (see prior blog post) we will make any alterations to the chosen homepage. We are also working on second and third tier page templates.

Those templates, along with a final homepage, will be revealed in an "Open Forum" on Tuesday, June 9 from 12-1 p.m. in room 730. We invite all faculty, staff, students, friends, and alumni to the forum.

We will explain a bit about our redesign process so far, show the final drafts (and get feedback), and we'll talk about next steps in the redesign process.

If we stay on schedule, we will begin alpha and beta testing in the middle of July and officially launch in the middle of August.

Please contact me (hantman@son.umaryland.edu) if you'd like to help out with testing.

Schedule Updates

We've completed a lot of things so far in our redesign: We interviewed a diverse slice of the School's community, got input from the majority of constituents through an online survey, and we worked with our Web advisory board to settle issues around our site architecture.

And now the fun begins!

In the coming days LMD will show us Two Home Page Design Drafts, and we will post these designs online and launch a second online survey to get your input. Once we have your input we'll have an open forum around May 19 to reveal the final designs.

We will have a Beta Launch of the site towards the end of June, with usability testing to take place. Tentatively, we plan to launch the live site (given we adhere to our deadlines and production moves along) by the middle of July.

Stay tuned!