The summer before I left the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, my supervisor and I, with additional help from the Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, worked to redesign the Greenlee School’s website. This transition was made to transition the site from Drupal to WordPress, which the College also used, in order to streamline the school’s content and posting capability.
This was a very involved process, which included focus groups with the website’s primary users (students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni), many brainstorming sessions and a moving a lot of content. In the end, all of our work led to the creation of two separate sites, one for the school’s general audiences and another specifically for Greenlee School alumni.
While the project wasn’t completed and implemented before I left in August 2016, the bulk of the work — streamlining, moving and classifying existing content, determining necessary pages and classifications — had been done. My supervisor, who remained at the Greenlee School after I left, saw this website overhaul through to completion in the summer of 2017. The delay was due to many factors, including a backlog in technical assistance, the departure of the school’s director, and the hiring of my replacement at the school.