Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Welcome to UNCW's new homepage! Its updated look and cleaner, more flexible navigation structure is designed to enhance your experience on the site.

The new website design is the product of more than 18 months of research, including needs assessments, a site evaluation and a competitor analysis. Feedback from campus constituent groups was gathered through electronic surveys and more than 70 hours of focus group testing. The Marketing and Communications Office and Information Technology Systems Division, working with representatives from the campus community, developed a web template that addressed the needs identified through this process, and a preliminary design was tested on beta sites for the Cameron School of Business and the Watson School of Education.

While the homepage launch is a defining moment in the redesign project, much more work will follow as interior UNCW sites are migrated to the new design. Site migrations will be prioritized based on their relationship to the homepage, complexity of content and frequency of web traffic. Content management and/or web maintenance personnel soon will receive an overview of the process for transitioning their sites.

User feedback continues to be appreciated and valuable in making the website the best it can be. If you have comments or suggestions about the new design, please respond to the survey located at the top of the homepage.