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November 16, 2005
Web Redesign Idea Incorporates myUMBC
With the launch of myUMBC-beta, UMBC has taken the first step in the process of rethinking and redesigning the university’s Web presence.
Beginning in Spring ’05, the web development group will begin to examine the best way to redesign www.umbc.edu. In addition to a new look and feel for the site, we’re also exploring the best ways to present information to internal (faculty, staff and students) and external (potential students, media, everyone else) audiences.
The new uPortal platform for myUMBC gives us an opportunity to divide and focus the content of our site. Our plan is to make myUMBC more useful but integrating many of the functions people need to do their jobs—the phone book, news and announcements– into the portal (myUMBC).
That would allow the “external” site—www.umbc.edu, to be the public face of the university containing information the rest of the world needs about our university: sports schedules, events and programs.
The portal and website are tools. Our goal is to make these tools more robust to better serve you. Take a minute to post a comment and let us know what you think of the plan.
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