SHU Chapel Website Assignment

This post is just an assignment for my internet marketing course regarding the website our school has created for the new chapel it is building on our campus.




The question my group was presented with is as follows:


How would you improve this SHU Chapel site given the format limitations? By format limitations I mean the fact that the site has to respect the general SHU website template.


I personally have several different ideas about how to go about renovating the format of the site without disrupting the general SHU template.
For starters, being that the general SHU template is rater formal, the Chapel site should and does follow this format but it does so in a very boring uninteresting way. Rather then having a list on the left hand side of the site of things to read and check out about the Chapel, there should be tabs at the top of the site just like the main SHU page does. The list should be read across the top from right to left and have drop down menu's for the different sections of each subsection links. I also think that the link for the webcam should be an active one showing what is going on at the chapel before you even click on it. I think the sole purpose to click on it should be to enlarge it. Having the link be an active one it would give the site more livliness without changing anything about the SHU template.

The link that is labeled photo gallery and slideshows should not be a link but there should be a consistent pop-up picture on the Chapel site with the option to click and view all. Also, with this site I do not like how "download President Cernera's Narrated Video: A Vision for SHU" is just thrown in the middle of the page. This makes it look sloppy and out of nowhere. If it was more towards the top or under a different section of the site it would appear more organized and being sloppily placed on the site it takes away the importance SHU is trying to put on Cernera's video. I also would have the section at the bottom of the page to see the monthly archived videos be part of a separate tab, link, or what I think, a drop down menu because it just seems randomly placed on the bottom of the page. Vquzeshuf

Overall I do not like the way Sacred Heart constructed this site watsoever. Even if they obviously want to stick to the SHU template they could have done so in a more organized interesting manner. I do not like the SHU site template as a hole, the one they had in 2oo4-2005 was much more welcoming and warm rather then proper and dry.