Beyond the Newsroom: Strategies to Design Your Website With the Student in Mind
Sarah Tuley, Social Media Editor/Digital Content Producer, and Gabe Hernandez, Photographer, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Two Corpus Christi Caller-Times professionals will present this two-part workshop covering visual and content development for a more dynamic website. Your college website is the hub for your digital presence online, and it’s often the first glimpse of your campus that a potential student sees. What first impression are you making? Current students are looking to your site to provide info about their classes, campus events and services--are those things easy to find? Learn the latest trends––including turning data into infographics, using video to make your site sing, using storyboarding for dynamic storytelling and making content platform-specific by using social media as extensions of your site, among other topics. You’ll learn how to implement your site's desktop and mobile designs to ensure you're designing your site and your content with the student in mind. You’ll also learn how to take those great shots that will make your website really pop, how to create engaging videos, how to use your iPhone or IPad and apps that news photographers use to make sure those special shots get seen. You’ll also hear how these two professionals work as a team while hearing about their tips to complete those projects directed to making your website more engaging.