Westminster, Md. (PRWEB) August 20, 2012

McDaniel College has unveiled a new redesigned interactive internet site (http://www.mcdaniel.edu) to be primarily utilized by external audiences, such as prospective students and alumni.

The culmination of a 10-month procedure, McDaniels internet site group was led by Vince Buscemi, director of digital communications and social media, Florence Hines, vice president of enrollment and dean of admissions, and Joyce Muller, associate vice president of communications and advertising. Dr. Roger N. Casey, president of McDaniel College, spearheaded the site redesign.

He stated, In this digital age, it is imperative that we at McDaniel are embracing the ever altering role of technologies. With access to all sorts of digital devices, it should be no surprise that potential students and other individuals initial look for data about McDaniel on the colleges web site. It is essential for McDaniel to have sturdy internet presence that tells our story in an engaging way in order to attract the finest and brightest students.

The new McDaniel web site has been built with mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, in mind. The homepage was designed especially for viewing on these devices, though the internet site is nevertheless completely functional through a desktop or laptop computer. Every page on the website consists of concisely written content material with links for added info.

Our aim was not to develop a separate mobile website for the college, but to develop a website that puts the mobile user first, stated Buscemi. We completely recognize that the wave of the future is toward mobile devices, and we wanted to embrace this technologies even though also ensuring that the internet site was both visually attractive and incorporated user-friendly navigation. With technology continuously changing and evolving, it was also important that this new site would allow us to continue to make updates and add further components as time goes on. Even with this new internet site now reside, we are currently beginning to program for the future.

1 key component of the new internet site is MC2, which is an expanded social media dashboard. Modeled off of the style of the homepage, it displays a number of college social media streams (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) and blogs written by faculty and students in actual-time. The page will continue to be built upon with additional elements to be added (examples may well contain Foursquare, SCVNGR, Pinterest and Instagram).

Two existing McDaniel personal computer science majors, senior Matt Brooks of Manchester, Md., and junior Zach Littrell of Taneytown, Md., helped boost the functionality and populate content on the new site, and developed MC2, which they dubbed an underground version of the homepage.

Littrell mentioned, You genuinely get a sense of what is happening at McDaniel through MC2.

Brooks added, I personally didnt know that some of these websites even existed until we started constructing out the page. I in no way would have recognized about the weblog and the investigation becoming done through the biology division, for instance, and now it is highlighted on MC2 for every person to see.

Florence Hines remarked, We feel that MC2 is what genuinely sets this website apart from other college internet sites. By repurposing content material that already exists on different channels where we are frequently posting, we are in a position to extend the conversations that are taking place at the college correct now. It truly gives you a sense of the campus as a complete.

This was the initial redesign of the McDaniel College site because 2005.

The new web site was developed by Skelton Style and developed by Interactive Technologies, each based in Baltimore. It incorporates ExpressionEngine as the content material management method and the Google Custom search engine.

The new McDaniel site has launched prior to the start off of the 20122013 academic year. Freshmen start arriving on campus on Wednesday, August 22, with classes set to begin on Monday, August 27.

An updated McDaniel Athletics website, which is straight linked from the new internet site, and web portal for current students, faculty and staff have also been built in conjunction with this new external internet site.

Hyperlink to the new McDaniel site: http://www.mcdaniel.edu

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally amongst 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News leading-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences supplying much more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, which includes dual and student-developed majors, plus 20 very regarded graduate applications. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in investigation, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively understanding knowledge that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Revolutionary January courses take students to points all more than the world even though McDaniels degree-granting European campus provides a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit neighborhood of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 element-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.

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