<p>word on the street is that the long overdue redesign of <a href=“http://www.brown.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.brown.edu</a> will be publically launched next week</p>
<p>most of the ivies have redesigned their websites in the last two years, some for better, some for worst</p>
<p>dartmouth’s, i think, was a step back</p>
<p>cornell gets the prize for most improved–it went from the undisputed worst to arguably the best</p>
<p>columbia and princeton made very similar changes–simple layout, good use of school colors</p>
<p>yale’s is possibly the most creative, uses multiple screens and flash</p>
<p>harvard’s hasn’t been redesigned in some time and is quite obsolete, but it gets the prize for most frequently updated</p>
<p>watch for the changes at brown next week. from what i’ve seen, the new site is awesome. i think it will be the best ivy site up</p>
<p>I've heard very mixed things about the new Brown site, however, this is a few months later than they had originally intended to launch the redesign so hopefully the qualms I've heard about have been fixed in that time. Currently, I think we have one of the better pages aesthetically of the Ivies, but the page isn't the easiest to work with. I shouldn't have to use the A-Z index to find things faster, it's the only site with an index like that that I have actually had to use the index.</p>
<p>Hopefully ours will be W3C standards compliant with content entirely in HTML and layout entirely in CSS as those pages load fastest and look best in most cases (AJAX is great for interactive stuff that isn't really necessary on Brown's page, though could be used to improve Webmail because frankly, WebOutlook is terrible IMO).</p>