As part of the UMass Dartmouth Web Design and Development team, I’m constantly updating the look and feel to websites sites all across campus. This fall, we finished two website redesigns: the Admissions Office and the Center for Jewish Culture.
Both sites desperately needed to be updated; both visually and functionally. They now use a new layout that puts their navigation on the left hand of the screen, rather than the top. This makes a better line-length for the content area (making it easier to read), and gives the viewer a better handle of what section of the web site they are currently viewing.