Web Development Showcase

Target Audience Engagement Features

These target audience engagement features dynamically and randomly pull content that is relevant to both current and prospective students.

For example, on the Psychology website, students are exposed to interesting psychological flicks as they are reading about the program. The movies are also expanded upon by title, synopsis, year, and the psychological disorders that are touched upon throughout the movie.

The English department has a "Good Reads" book recommendation that floats to the right of the information on the website. These books are actually chosen by students in the program and include a synopsis and the major & minor of the student that suggested it. 

These features are easily implemented on any department website in a fashion that would best engage their audience and are a great way to keep students on your website.

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Library Homepage

• Custom feature areas with photos, titles and descriptions - content can be populated with a structure or link to an outside URL or page.
• Custom icons

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Student Residences Bulletin Board (Residence Life)

On the Housing & Residence Life website, a bulletin board displays all information about the specific residence hall using a dynamic back-end database.

Information is entered into fields, and pulled automatically on the page through a programmed format of text and pictures. If the content editor checks "yes" for air conditioning, the air conditioner graphic automatically 'sticks' onto the bulletin board. The same concept is used for sprinkler systems, requirement of meal plan, gender, and more. The details of the building are also typed out in plain text and set on top of a graphic sheet of notebook paper.

The page looks like a giant image, but really each piece is adjusted automatically using the content structure we've created for them.

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Art Galleries

• Custom "Gray" Color Scheme, including Marywood Header and Footer
• Rotating homepage slideshow pulling from a database of entries
• Facebook "like" button
• Fully searchable exhibition archive dating back to 2001
• Dynamically displayed contents of the permanent collection
• Truncation of long descriptions into shorter text with "read more..." link

Custom "Gray" Template was approved by the web committee and implemented in order to let visitors view the art from each exhibition without distractions. On the homepage, current exhibitions from each gallery rotate and link to more information, description, and photos within each exhibition. The exhibition archive allows visitors to search by year, type, or keyword.

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History / Chronology

• Clickable image map to view events in a specific year
• Top menu of text links for dates, and a
• Search feature to find events by keywords
• Small image thumbnails enlarge on hover
• Information is entered into a database on a per-event basis. Programming automatically sorts each event into the correct year and orders by month

The chronology of Marywood features all of the significant events in the history of the University. There are multiple ways to find events; by clicking on a date or president in the colored timeline, selecting a date by a text link, or searching for a keyword.  All events are pulled dynamically as individual pieces of content, making it easy to go back and edit or add a new event without having to change the code on the page.

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