Web site design (or redesigns or refreshes, as it is often subdivided into) for colleges and universities is very serious business.

1. 4 resources to Keep You Current with the
State of Higher Ed Website Design
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4 Resources to Keep You
Current with the State of Higher
Ed Website Design

2. 4 resources to Keep You Current with the
State of Higher Ed Website Design
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1. Mini reviews of higher ed websites designs from EDU Checkup
2. Do-it-yourself website research using Braintrack
3. Curated awards or website by the Edustyle Awards
4. Meaty investigations of special topics with Higher Ed Live
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3. 4 resources to Keep You Current with the
State of Higher Ed Website Design
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 Web site design (or redesigns or refreshes, as it is often
subdivided into) for colleges and universities is very serious
business.
 Every three to five years institutions turn themselves inside out,
write the granddaddy of all RFPs and tweak or start the site
design cycle all over again.
Source: Higher Education Marketing - 4 Resources to Keep You Current with the State of Higher Ed Website Design

4. 4 resources to Keep You Current with the
State of Higher Ed Website Design
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Here are a few free, web-based, resources that we use to
help keep up on what’s happening in the marketplace and
maintain a reasonably current sensibility of what’s out-of
date, what’s cool and what‘s bleeding edge in terms of
educational site design.
Source: Higher Education Marketing - 4 Resources to Keep You Current with the State of Higher Ed Website Design

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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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 Nick DeNardis, Associate Director of Web Communications
at Wayne State University produces 4 or 5 of these 20
minute reviews of college and university websites each
month.
 Since October of 2008 he has produced 322 reviews which
are all available on their website.
 These are great bite-size reviews that you can use to keep
up and educate yourself on how other sites compare and
rank.
1. Mini reviews of higher ed websites designs
from EDU Checkup
Source: Higher Education Marketing - 4 Resources to Keep You Current with the State of Higher Ed Website Design

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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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http://educheckup.com/
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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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 Braintrack is a fantastic higher ed institution index that helps
you easily find and access college’s and university’s
websites
 locally
 nationally and
 around the world
 Oddly, not every school is in their index but I would say it
contains most and if yours happens to be missing you can
let them know and they will add it.
2. Do-it-yourself website research using
Braintrack
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8. 4 resources to Keep You Current with the
State of Higher Ed Website Design
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http://www.braintrack.com/

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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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 The Edustyle Awards, among others, provides a curated list
of leading websites that they think are providing best design
practices.
 Their categories are quite useful as a quick reference for
who is doing what, and who is at the cutting edge of things.
3. Curated awards or website by the Edustyle
Awards
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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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http://www.edustyle.net/awards/2012/index.php
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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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 Where can you find them?
 http://www.higher-education-marketing.com/blog/4-resources-current-
state-website-design-higher-ed#sthash.IibugZzn.dpuf
 They are interesting, filled with leaders in their respective
specialties and provide excellent reports on what’s
happening and what best practices are in higher ed
marketing.
 There are a number of episodes on website design, content
and functionality.
4. Meaty investigations of special topics with
Higher Ed Live
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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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http://higheredlive.com//
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State of Higher Ed Website Design
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