<p>Yeah, this is a trivial thread…so sue me. We all had to have it, and now, with Princeton’s new and improved website, I think we can give it a boost from last place. </p>
<p>Haha, guys those were only my opinions. Feel free to add your own. I amend it by putting Darmouth to sixth and moving everything else up (or keeping it the same). Also, I think Harvard should be switched with Columbia. Yale has a great front page, although I put it low because it is incredibly pixilated on my cpu, and because once one goes beyond the front page, it is not too great.</p>
<p>the Princeton site rocks except for that link which says Old Website still Available...:p
Why would they want to remind us of that nightmare anyway?
And yeah the Stanford undergraduate website has gotten pretty nice too :)</p>
<p>I think I'd have to rank more like this:
1. Penn (the layout is really good)
2. Princeton (the new one is excellent)
3. Yale (it would be first--the layout IS a bit better/classier--but that blue is too bright and can get annoying)
4. Harvard (it's really not that bad; it's also easy to navigate) and Columbia tie
6. Cornell (sort of bland)
7. Brown (the design is really unoriginal, which is strange considering it's Brown's site)
8. Dartmouth (it looks unprofessional)</p>
<p>Though, like you said, it's completely personal opinion. =)</p>
<p>1) Princeton - amazing homepage, and aesthetically sharp... but essentially, beyond the core 200 pages, the website remains the same. Great improvement none the less: a real eye-catcher.</p>
<p>2) Penn - nice site, good color organization</p>
<p>3) Brown/Cornell/Dartmouth - though I agree with Kebree, you'd expect something more original from Brown</p>
<p>6) Harvard - great color scheme and top organization of the first few core pages, but the Undergraduate Section is drab and lacks all life</p>
<p>7) Yale - striking blue gets old after a while, and beyond the first page, the Undergraduate pages are extremely boring... it's as if they trick you into thinking they have an exciting site, only to find that it is only their home page</p>
<p>8) Columbia - interesting admissions video, but otherwise a cluttered, disorganized effect. Their font sizes seems uncoordinated too.</p>
<p>Overally though, Stanford and MIT deserve a place tie for second after Princeton. Stanford is aesthetically appealing, organized well and generally a great site. MIT's is amazing! original, creative, colorful, extremely appealing and a good reflection of the university's technological department. NYU is elegant and is clearly amoung the top. And Princeton's classic yet colorfully-appealing site wins.</p>
<p>Personally, I'm still not that impressed with the Princeton website. Or maybe it's just too orange for me... I'm slowly making myself love it, but it's HARD</p>
<p>I still see way too many questions here on CC that ought to be answered by college Web sites. (What CC is for isn't answering simple questions that the college Web sites can answer, but for getting a reality check on whether or not those answers are honest. ;) ) Maybe the answers to those questions are on the college Web sites, but the sites have such poor usability that no one can find the answers.</p>