Website URL
Problem
The TRiO office website at Bellevue College was updated manually using Dreamweaver and was outdated because it was so hard to maintain. They also had also grown out of their current website’s structure due to the amount of content they needed to publish.
Solution
We designed a new structure to the website based on stakeholder interviews, content inventory and card sorting study. The new website was developed as a custom WordPress theme as part of a pilot program to see how the WordPress platform would work at the college.
Screenshots
What I did
- Managed and planned scope of project
- Conducted stakeholder interviews
- Managed a student worker who performed content inventory, card sorting, and editing page copy
- Finalized information architecture
- Designed website (pen/paper wireframes to final visual design)
- Managed student intern photographer who took photos for the website
- Developed custom WordPress theme (HTML, CSS, jQuery, WordPress)
- Tools used: Illustrator, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, WordPress, Paper, Pen & Whiteboard
Sketches
Project over time
This website eventually was taken down when it got migrated over to the ‘mayflower’ WordPress theme, which is a theme that was created for all official college websites. I plan to write about this theme at some point.
A little story
The student who took the photograph on the home page was on of my first two photography interns. The way I ended up hiring him was by after starting a Flickr group for the college and was looking for members to join it. Around the same time, I was beginning to look for a student photographer to take pictures for our projects using the camera I had just acquired. During one of my first searches, I found some photos he had taken around campus, and started a conversation with him over flickr. He became an intern of mine less than a month later.