From: Debra Goldentyer (goldenty@haas.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 13:29:25 PDT
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks, Pat. We have online versions
of print brochures right now--complete to themselves as web modules. But
because they are separate modules, they duplicate information. So we have
three Messages from the Dean, one in each brochure and one for the home page.
Our overall home page: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu
Our MBA brochure: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/MBA/ProgramGuide/HOME/
Our Evening & Weekend MBA brochure:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/EvMBA/programguide/index.htm
What we're thinking of doing instead is something like Wharton did, where
there is a smooth transition from the home page to the MBA brochure.
At 01:23 PM 5/31/2002 -0700, Pat Soberanis wrote:
>i don't think it has to be a "brochure" or a "tour" design, which to me
>implies no/few navigation links. it can just be a different design, with
>a full set of nav links and identifiers. when i was at cchem, the health
>and safety manager moved the entire H&S manual to web-only; i came up
>with the design, and he adapted the pages/sections for the web, with my
>occasional advice. i would have broken up some of the pages, but he did
>a pretty good job on his own, and the site is a good example of the
>"subsite design" idea:
>
>cchem site (soon to be redesigned, of course):
>http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/ChemResources/index.html
>
>health and safety manual:
>http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~cchasp/
>
>i agree it would be jarring to move back and forth between the subsite
>and the regular site; you would want to keep it to a minimum, and even
>then you might want to target a new window for each outside link.
>
>let us see the results when you're done!
>
>cheers,
>pat
>
>Sara Leavitt wrote:
> >
> > Debra,
> >
> > Yes, I think from user perspective it is jarring to go from a page
> > that was designed to take advantage of the web's features to a more
> > "brochure-like" design. I would suggest putting the "brochure" under
> > the heading of "Take the Tour" so that it would be clear that the
> > info was supplementary/redundant.
> >
> > -Sara
> >
> > At 11:55 AM -0700 5/31/02, Debra Goldentyer wrote:
> > >Thanks for all your thoughts. I'd be interested in hearing about the
> > >from a user's perspective. Forgetting the PDF, is it jarring to go
> > >from a certain design to a special "brochure-only" design? If you
> > >would do a special "brochure only" design, would you duplicate the
> > >info that exists on the rest of the website, or link to where it
> > >resides elsewhere, thus possibly being jarring a second time?
> > >
> > >D.
> > >
> >
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