Site Review: Georgia Southwestern State University
By Daniel Miessler on August 7th, 2005: Tagged as General
Here’s a great review of the newly deployed website at the University where my friend goes to school:
(From: Jason Powell)
GSW unveiled their new homepage today. The site has gone a long way to improve visual appeal; the color palette is outstanding with excellent choices to distinguish different areas of varying import and utility. There’s nice, considerate use of white space, and the typography lends both ease of reading and an appropriate atmosphere.
Gone are the cumbersome fly-out menus of the previous design. However, in their place are no less than six disparate navigation areas that lack clarity and contain some ambiguity. For example, the site map is located in two places (top bar and footer), and under a different name on each. The links actually lead to two different pages that have the same purpose.
Navigation overall seems to have suffered the most. The problems created in this implementation suggest there was no due consideration for information architecture. The fly-out menus were dispensed with and awkward, scant, consideration was given to dealing with the glut of information those menus had handled. This quickly leads beyond organizational issues into user interface concerns. …
I do suggest you head over to his site and read the rest.