Yesterday a new website for Southern Seminary--where I serve in-house as Lead Designer--went live. Its beginnings were last summer when my friend Aaron Marshall started creating the information architecture. I arrived towards the end of October and began wireframing in early November. Four months and a lot of hard work by many people later, we have a brand new website.

For Now

A list of a few interesting things about the site.

• We used Jumpchart to manage the new content for the website. We invited different departments to add and edit content for their sections and were able to quality control it very easily. You never had to deal with emails upon emails of Word documents. It's a nice web app.
• The new site is powered by WordPress MU.
• The old site had an estimated 3,000 pages, the new site has considerably less than that. But we're ready to grow!
• Southern Seminary's campus was designed by famed park designer, Frederick Law Olmstead. He designed only two college campuses: Southern Seminary and Duke University. Okay, that has nothing to do with the website, but I thought it was neat.
• The main typefaces used throughout the site are Palatino and Georgia.
• We are blasting the myth of the fold and encouraging users to scroll by enticing them with beautiful imagery and interesting layout.
• We weren't afraid of <br/> tags, see Future Students.
• There is a big image at the bottom of the About page. I like the image on the Alumni Chapel page too.
• Okay, that's enough for now!