POMONA, CA - The university will launch its redesigned Web site in the fall, eventually offering online registration.
Online registration is one of the features that will be introduced with the new and improved Cal Poly Pomona Web site.
The Web site redesign, which will feature a more user-friendly design, will be active by fall quarter.
"We've long recognized the need to give a new face to our Web site," said Ron Fremont, university spokesman and co-chair of the University Web Committee. "The Internet has changed since we first launched the current Cal Poly Web site."
The Web Committee worked with DreamBox Creations, an Internet Consulting company and the university's Instructional and Information Technology designers to design the new site.
Danielle Takata, Art Director for DreamBox Creations and a Cal Poly graduate, said the main goals of the new design are easier navigation and a better look.
"The existing Web site served its purpose," said Daniel Bejmuk, vice president of DreamBox Creations, also a Cal Poly graduate. "We noticed that its main usage was to check class study lists, online resources and grades."
Jerry Lerma, a graphic artist for Instructional Technology and Academic Computing, helped design the current Web site, and said the new site will be much more user-friendly than the current design.
"The categories in the current Web site are pretty broad," Lerma said. "People get lost. [The current site] needed to be updated."
The new Web site will be designed to meet the needs of current and prospective students.
"I think back then, we made the Cal Poly Web site mainly useful for people here on campus," Lerma said. "I don't think we considered making it into a recruitment tool."
The new design will include a search engine and a pressroom with Cal Poly stories and Web-based registration capabilities, which will be available sping 2004.
"The new Cal Poly Web site will also include a link to online advising tools when they become available," said Pamela McQuesten, ITAC associate vice president.
Tarek Souhaid, a mechanical engineering major, said the new design looks more professional.
"It's more organized," Souhaid said. "Right now, with the current site, you go to Online Resources and you get lost."
Souhaid said he is looking forward to online registration.
"The phone registration is a pain," he said.
The university's contract with DreamBox Creations will end when the Web site is launched.
Bejmuk said they don't want to rush getting the Web site online.
"We'd rather focus on quality than speed," he said.
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Online registration is one of the features that will be introduced with the new and improved Cal Poly Pomona Web site.
The Web site redesign, which will feature a more user-friendly design, will be active by fall quarter.
"We've long recognized the need to give a new face to our Web site," said Ron Fremont, university spokesman and co-chair of the University Web Committee. "The Internet has changed since we first launched the current Cal Poly Web site."
The Web Committee worked with DreamBox Creations, an Internet Consulting company and the university's Instructional and Information Technology designers to design the new site.
Danielle Takata, Art Director for DreamBox Creations and a Cal Poly graduate, said the main goals of the new design are easier navigation and a better look.
"The existing Web site served its purpose," said Daniel Bejmuk, vice president of DreamBox Creations, also a Cal Poly graduate. "We noticed that its main usage was to check class study lists, online resources and grades."
Jerry Lerma, a graphic artist for Instructional Technology and Academic Computing, helped design the current Web site, and said the new site will be much more user-friendly than the current design.
"The categories in the current Web site are pretty broad," Lerma said. "People get lost. [The current site] needed to be updated."
The new Web site will be designed to meet the needs of current and prospective students.
"I think back then, we made the Cal Poly Web site mainly useful for people here on campus," Lerma said. "I don't think we considered making it into a recruitment tool."
The new design will include a search engine and a pressroom with Cal Poly stories and Web-based registration capabilities, which will be available sping 2004.
"The new Cal Poly Web site will also include a link to online advising tools when they become available," said Pamela McQuesten, ITAC associate vice president.
Tarek Souhaid, a mechanical engineering major, said the new design looks more professional.
"It's more organized," Souhaid said. "Right now, with the current site, you go to Online Resources and you get lost."
Souhaid said he is looking forward to online registration.
"The phone registration is a pain," he said.
The university's contract with DreamBox Creations will end when the Web site is launched.
Bejmuk said they don't want to rush getting the Web site online.
"We'd rather focus on quality than speed," he said.
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