cm-life.com Redesign
Central Michigan Life’s five Web goals revisited
Earlier this semester (on Sept. 16), I wrote a blog post detailing five major goals I had for Central Michigan Life’s new Web site and its integration into our newsroom.
For those new to my blog, we launched a redesigned cm-life.com on Aug. 20, switching from College Publisher to WordPress’s content management system, with the help [...]
A day of reflection: Summer internship is over… but much lies ahead, and I need ideas
Many hours ago, I walked out the doors of the Grand Rapids Press for the last time as a summer copy desk intern. I’m still not sure if that has hit me yet.
Three months ago, I went through a day of orientation, two more days of training on a vastly outdated pagination system and cracked [...]
Day 3 of redesigning cm-life.com: Logos are a-changin’, plus new features
After putting up the first prototype logo for the new cm-life.com in the previous entry and getting advice from several other journalists and designers, it was obvious we had some work to do in that department.
After all, I didn’t want to go too much further in designing the site without having a logo virtually set [...]
Day 1 of redesigning cm-life.com: Organizing for simplicity
Today has been a grueling day, the first of many to come over the next month. I began my foray into the CSS/PHP world on WordPress, with the help of CoPress’ Daniel Bachhuber (who, at the end of this, I’ll be sure to thank a thousand times), in redesigning Central Michigan Life’s Web presentation.
The logo [...]
