Website (v3)
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College for Creative Studies Website
This site delivers content along audience-specific categories, allow each audience to get an appropriately prioritized arrangement of the content they need.
The work produced by students and alumni is essential in conveying what the College for Creative Studies (CCS) is all about. This version of the website uses several different image display methods to saturate each page with representative imagery.
- global, site-wide galleries for recent work from students and alumni
- global, site-wide gallery for student life imagery
- random selection of 5 images related to page content (when specified)
- targeted, content-specific image galleries
Modern CMS
Aside from allowing CCS staff from adding and modifying visible content (text and images), here's some of the things the CCS CMS does that aren't so visible. (view them in action here: collegeforcreativestudies.edu)
Dynamic Loading
Most of the images and scripts are delivered via AJAX when the page (or user) requests them. This method of loading content allows for more content to be presented without the huge load time previously associated with advanced features – an especially useful attribute on a site that relies on such a heavy concentration of imagery.
Dynamic Flash
Properly handled, Flash can be great enhancement to a website (assuming you account for dealing with search engine crawling). The CCS website home page uses Flash to present a large number of navigation options (and visuals) to the site's users – all controlled via the CMS.
Incremental Enhancements
The current (white) version is a continuation and reskinning of earlier designs.
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Website (v2) | College for Creative Studies | Winter 08
This version constituted a major reworking of the site – restructured architecture, deliberately dark and edgy color, new CMS with modern image handling.
Learn more about DDM's custom content management system.
