<p>The Georgetown website just looks so plain and cheap.</p>
<p>Agree 100% with Georgetown. It looks like it’s from 1999.</p>
<p>I really think it’d be a good idea for a college to have a sort of competition between graphic design students to see who can design the best website. Or at least have the class collaborate on a design and work on individual parts of each website alongside department chairs and resource offices. Each college has a load of information they should have on their website, and yet most have dead links or inadequate information. Clubs, for example, rarely have information on the school’s website. Instead you have to do some serious googling and fact-finding to learn anything useful. In my opinion, a college should have a uniform template that each academic department, club, office, etc. can use to talk about what they do. </p>
<p>Colleges should also have course catalogs online, with a description to go along with it. The school I’m going to only allows students to see the course catalog, (not prospective students…) and there’s no description to go along with it. It’s quite annoying.</p>
<p>I thought that GW’s website was pretty easily navigable compared to others. Georgetown’s website is pretty bad. Claremont McKenna’s isn’t really helpful. And not that anyone cares, but UAA (university of Alaska Anchorage) has the worst, most confusing, unhelpful, worthless website that I have ever encountered in my life.</p>
<p>I love my school website. I find every piece of I need, easily.</p>
<p>^ Oh, UAA…</p>
<p>Still, I prefer it to the UBC site.</p>
<p>Georgetown’s website is definitely a turn off. I feel like I’m suffocating when I navigate their site…</p>
<p>Imagine applying online (since they don’t use common app; DOH!)</p>
<p>I second (or third) whoever said Brown.</p>
<p>Duke’s website tries too hard with the pictures of students doing community work in Africa… (cliche to the max!) boring! haha</p>
<p>I like how Brown’s site is … Brown. lol.</p>
<p>I completely agree that Georgetown’s website is horrible; it gave an impression that the school is outdated. What was worse was applying on their website; worst application site ever!</p>
<p>Great/Aesthetically-Pleasing College Websites:
-Cornell [Cornell</a> University](<a href=“http://www.cornell.edu%5DCornell”>http://www.cornell.edu)
-Emory [Emory</a> University Home Page](<a href=“http://www.emory.edu%5DEmory”>http://www.emory.edu)
-Northwestern [Northwestern</a> University, Evanston/Chicago, IL, Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu%5DNorthwestern”>http://www.northwestern.edu)
-Rice [Rice</a> University](<a href=“http://www.rice.edu%5DRice”>http://www.rice.edu)</p>
<p>WORST
- Georgetown [Georgetown</a> University](<a href=“http://www.georgetown.edu%5DGeorgetown”>http://www.georgetown.edu)
- Pomona [Pomona</a> College](<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu%5DPomona”>http://www.pomona.edu)
- WashU [Washington</a> University in St. Louis](<a href=“http://www.wustl.edu%5DWashington”>http://www.wustl.edu)</p>
<p>well to all those who hated duke’s website, i guess there were enough negative opinions that it’s now changing</p>
<p>[Duke?s</a> Home Page to Receive a Makeover](<a href=“http://news.duke.edu/2009/07/website_redesign.html]Duke?s”>http://news.duke.edu/2009/07/website_redesign.html)</p>
<p><a href=“http://dn.duke.edu/dukeredesign/[/url]”>http://dn.duke.edu/dukeredesign/</a>
^images</p>
<p>i like it :)</p>
<p>The new one looks MUCH better…but then again it’s not hard to improve upon the current one.</p>
<p>Beloit</p>
<p>Apparently that’s too short of a reply to post alone.</p>
<p>I think that Caltech’s ([California</a> Institute of Technology](<a href=“http://www.caltech.edu/]California”>http://www.caltech.edu/)) and Chicago’s ([The</a> University of Chicago](<a href=“http://www.uchicago.edu/]The”>http://www.uchicago.edu/)) pages are quite nice, and I would even say that the former is probably the most aesthetically pleasing I’ve ever seen. White just works.</p>
<p>Franklin and Marshall used to have a great website- creative and interesting. Now, they have updated it to look boring and bland and indistinguishable from any other college. I guess they are trying to appeal to the parents who are forking out the cash and don’t want the place to look too different.</p>
<p>Out of the ivy websites I’ve visited more than a few times, Cornell, Princeton and Dartmouth’s websites are informative, attractive and easy to navigate. Columbia and brown’s sites have been frustrating whenever I’ve visited them. UPenn is in between. Haven’t been to Harvard or Yale enough to have an opinion.</p>
<p>American’s had lots of misspellings (on the page dedicated to directions towards the school, it had “minute” spelled “minuet”). I do love William and Mary’s though, the green is very aesthetically pleasing.</p>
<p>[Camden</a> County College - Home](<a href=“http://www.camdencc.edu%5DCamden”>http://www.camdencc.edu)</p>
<p>The University of South Alabama. I don’t know why I know this, but check. it. out! [University</a> of South Alabama Homepage](<a href=“http://www.usouthal.edu%5DUniversity”>http://www.usouthal.edu)</p>
<p>This thread is 3 years old… but actually still a relevant topic. 
I think Harvey Mudd (maligned in the 2009 posts) has done some on their site just recently. It is quite a bit better now than when I began looking at it a year ago. The color scheme is still kind of awful (lamb-s*** yellow is the main color), but it is easier to navigate and has add some more interesting/useful items.</p>
<p>I am not a fan of Carleton’s site, either. Unattractive font and colors, and not easy to navigate.</p>
<p>A lot of websites have undergone revisions. Duke’s is now okay, although Georgetown’s still doesn’t hit the mark. </p>
<p>UCLA has always had the best website IMO.</p>
<p>I agree with clockface NYU’s is so hard to navigate.</p>