The past two weeks have been hectic. With my good friend Jason, I have been spending countless hours on developing, readjusting some code, and mostly populating content for a new website for the Laurier Center for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies.
I knew what I wanted, and between Jason and I we were able to come up with a template that is clean and simple and most importantly does everything the Centre needs.
With the new site we plan to generate more traffic and keep it current. To do this we have put up a blog that will be updated frequently - with over 60 associates, our current schedule has a guest blogger every week over the course of the summer and I'm sure that with the talks and other events we'll be posting 2-3 times per week. This will allow those who follow the activities of the Centre a chance to follow what our many associates are working on.
We have a key spot for videos and I think now that we are recording all of our guest lectures, it will give those who because of schedule or geography can't make it, a chance to see the talks.
Right now we're working out solutions for the archives and back issues of the journal but for now we have a link back to the old setup which is actually pretty user friendly and a testament to the efforts of the webmasters who came before. Anyway I hope you take a look and stay up to date on what we're doing to push the medium of history into the 21st Century.
I'm excited that this project has turned out so well and I can't wait to keep working on it throughout the year.
No comments:
Post a Comment