<p>Well I thought the old site really sucked, and I gave them some suggestions on improving it...looks like they're done. What do you all think?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wustl.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.wustl.edu</a></p>
<p>I certainly think that it's more attractive than the old site. But it could nonetheless be better.</p>
<p>I think the homepage looks nice...they need to fix the other pages as well. I told them to fix the virutal tour asap because it sucks and it makes the buildings look rather ugly. Also, the reslife website still sucks :(</p>
<p>I think it's okay, still kind of plain. That blatantly (and poorly) photoshopped picture on the homepage kind of detracts from the professionalism, IMO.</p>
<p>But hey, it's the school that counts :D</p>
<p>it looks a lot better</p>
<p>it is so much better than b4, but it could mos def look a little more professional</p>
<p>I think it absolutely sucks. They really need to hire an outside design firm to completely revamp the site. No competent designer would make the top of the page tan, and then surround it by white with no dark delineation of any sorts. The admissions page still looks horrible, and all of the newly redesigned inner pages have a horrible layout. The main page is centered, while the inner pages are right-aligned. Basic design principles state that these elements should be consistent.</p>
<p>I would much rather see a design that utilizes some of the elements found at <a href="http://www.cmu.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.cmu.edu</a>, <a href="http://business.tepper.cmu.edu%5B/url%5D">http://business.tepper.cmu.edu</a>, <a href="http://www.rice.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.rice.edu</a>, <a href="http://www.princeton.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu</a> than the current design. The Olin School website (<a href="http://www.olin.wustl.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.olin.wustl.edu</a>) is a step in the right direction, but there is still plenty wrong with that design (whitespace in particular).</p>
<p>The text is way too dense, and does not inspire anyone to click on the links. In this respect it's even worse than the older site. Plus, the useful links are still in a random order, only now they've moved location on the screen, so it's still nearly impossible to quickly get to the site you're looking for, be it Parking and Transportation or Dining Services.</p>
<p>Oh man, those tulips on the front page look awful. It's an improvement, but I still don't understand how a school as great as WashU, filled with great students and staff, can't make a decent website. Even the sucky Local U down the street has a better website! I don't get it.</p>
<p>Here's the website: <a href="http://www.cheyney.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cheyney.edu/</a>
Trust me, that school is NOT at all what it appears to be from the website. No landscaping, crappy facilities, dead all year long.</p>
<p>Most websites make a school appear better than in reality. WashU might be the only one that makes the school look worse.</p>
<p>I like the old version better, mainly because those tulips are absolutely horrible. As for consistency between the front page and the inner pages, their old design lacked that as well, so it doesn't surprise me that they failed to pull it off in the new design.</p>
<p>WashU really needs to buckle down and dish out the money to get a real website--one that doesn't rely on photoshopped tulips.</p>
<p>It still sucks. I mean, it looks amateurish compared to other college websites, and the design is quite bland and unattractive.</p>
<p>But I guess it's an improvement, as it no longer looks like something that was designed by a bunch of high school kids.</p>
<p>but the website for checking your email is pretty nice</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wustl.edu/students/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wustl.edu/students/</a></p>
<p>Even if they just did something as simple as <a href="http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=improvear6.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=improvear6.jpg</a> , it'd look better. Maybe get rid of the tulips, put a snazzy flash animation of students and professors in over that, and just improve the layout of the rest of the site, and that'll be a decent site.</p>
<p>oncampus, good suggestion...you should email the webmaster (i think its <a href="mailto:webmaster@wustl.edu">webmaster@wustl.edu</a>) and show them that</p>
<p>On my monitor the web site loooks so small...it's only about half as wide as my browser window. They need to get rid of the tulips, crop the photo a bit, add some more text and links, and figure out a way to insert some dark lines here and there.</p>
<p>Oh and the undergraduate admissions site and the main pages for the College of Arts and Sciences (<a href="http://artsci.wustl.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://artsci.wustl.edu/</a>) look god-awful, they seriously need to redo them. The CAS one looks like something you could make in a WYSIWYG editor in 1995. Yuck!</p>
<p>Still, the new main WUSTL page looks a lot better than the old one...but they still have a lot of work to do on it, in my opinion.</p>
<p>a bit off track here but...does anyone know the admissions rates for their USP?</p>
<p>I agree... Honestly, with as much money as it has, you'd think Wash U would spend the money to completely revamp its website because right now it looks absolutely horrendous. Especially those fake tulips...</p>
<p>just another suggestion: I think the scholarship material should be separated by the individual scholarship name. Now there is one page for the scholarship info and a completely separate page for the directions about how to apply. And yet another for forms common among the scholarships.</p>
<p>I think the front page is cute, and I can find all the info I need from the website so the setup works fine for me.</p>
<p>And like Sharpielove said, it's the school that counts <3</p>