UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

www.slais.ubc.ca/
Launched on November 24, 2009
Education / Schools / Universities, Schools, Good Design

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The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) is an academic program at UBC. SLAIS has their own program-specific site which they maintain themselves, and is built with flat HTML files. They have future plans to move to a CMS, which was not part of this phase of the project, but in the meantime they came to Hop Studios in need of an update in site design. Because SLAIS is a UBC program one important requirement of the redesign was to incorporate the school’s blue and gold colours and also accommodate both the UBC logo and SLAIS program logo.

The new design is fresh and modern with an interface that is—we think!—much more appealing to their potential audience of internet savvy students. The site navigation, which was overwhelming in the old version, has been fine-tuned in the new design to be user-friendly, with easy to use drop-down menus. The staff at SLAIS use Dreamweaver templates to maintain their site, and the redesign was provided to them as HTML/CSS, graphics and Dreamweaver templates that they implemented themselves.

As of the writing of this page, UBC was working their way through that implementation, so if you look at it right now you may have to return later in order to get a peek at the new design!

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