University to revamp website's design
This summer Princeton students will witness the revamping of one of the University's most visited sites ? its homepage."The question we are trying to answer here is how do you include the most information possible while still making the webpage useful, easy to navigate, quick and aesthetically pleasing," said Juan Lessing '05, a member of a student focus group which is working in conjunction with OIT and the Undergraduate Life Committee to reconstruct the website.The collaborative effort plans "to bring the University webpage to where a lot of . . . universities across America [are]," said Rishi Jaitly '04, another member of the student focus group.And there is room for improvement, the students say.Student groups who want to advertise their events in the Headlines or Announcements section frequently have trouble gaining access to this "powerful way of advertising things," Jaitly said.Even with many student group events occurring daily, the organizations could benefit greatly from a homepage modification that provides more advertising space, Jaitly said, adding that groups could alternate announcements on the page to allow for more equal publicity.The group, which began meeting toward the end of fall semester, will provide recommendations to OIT "concerning the new website's content, navigability and appearance," Raj Hathiramani '07, another member of the student focus group and a 'Prince' staff writer, said."Overall the goal is to keep the webpage as technologically up-to-date as possible and to meet the changing needs of the student body and University community at large," Lessing said.The homepage does change "once in a while" and the format for the homepage changed last year too, Lessing added.Describing the current effort to transform the website, Lessing said.