Graduate School of Business and Government
Link: vuw.ac.nz/sog (site has since been redeveloped) - view screenshot
Size: 50 pages, 1MB
My professional status: contractor at Mission Hall
Website client: Victoria University Wellington
Dates: September - October 2000
Brief: to build a new website for the VUW Graduate School, following the design created by Mission Hall designers.
My responsibilities included:
- Development and colour-matching of graphics (photos, logos, titles) to maintain consistency across the site and to look good on monitors displaying 256 colours
- Building site (architecture, navigation, HTML, JavaScript, content, popups)
- Building templates for pages which would become part of the Visual Basic web-based publishing solution designed for use by VUW staff
- Liaison with client, designer and programmers
- Testing site thoroughly for browser compatibility on Mac and PC, and including a range of monitors sizes and resolutions
- Development of an efficient working process with the Mission Hall designer who was inexperienced in producing design for HTML
- Running a seminar for Mission Hall staff to enable them to design more effectively for the web, and to work more efficiently with web developers.
A tight deadline and intense testing process made this site an interesting challenge, especially as the initial JavaScript was incompatible with Netscape 4.0x on a Mac - and I had to do a good deal of research with Toolbox to find a script that would work across all platforms. I learned heaps more about JavaScript in the process!
The look and feel of this site has since changed - it has been transferred to the templates I built for the School of Economics & Finance and the School of Business & Public Management.
