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This last Thursday’s session of the Summer Web Design Camp was all about what goes into creating, designing, and coding a news wiki. Daniel and Will led Lauren Rabaino, Max Cutler, Mo Jangda, Greg Linch, and myself through a discussion of how to set up and effectively deploy a news wiki. News Wikis View more [...]

On the slate for this week’s session of the summer web design camp was article pages and different approaches to designing them. Thursday I sat down with Daniel, Jake Paul, and Ethan Klapper to talk over some of our favorite practices. Rick Martinez also joined us mid-way to add a fifth voice to the conversation. [...]

On the schedule this past week for the Summer Web Design Camp was ideas for radically redesigning homepages. Joey Baker led Jake Paul, Lauren Rabaino, Emily Babay, Ethan Klapper, Ben Leis, and myself participated in a discussion of some varying approaches to homepage design. You can watch a recording of the session over on Blip.

Last Thursday was the second session of the Summer Web Design Camp and after some technical difficulties Jake Paul, Will Davis,Lauren, Daniel, Mo Jangda, and myself discussed navigation menus and what could be done to drastically change them. The session started off with a quick demo of creating drop-down menus in WordPress and the files [...]

This past Thursday I sat down with Jake Paul and Ethan Klapper of the American University Eagle, Jessica Luthi of City College of San Francisco’s The Guardsman, David Estes of The Daily UW, and Emily Babay of The Daily Pennsylvanian for the first session of the 2009 College Web Design Camp. The call was largely [...]

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If you’ve been keeping watch in the forum lately you may have seen some talk about a College Web Design Camp for student newspapers. I posted some preliminary information on the wiki a couple days ago and this is a more formal introduction to the idea. The main goals Our goal is to create an [...]

Last week, the Whitman Pioneer broke out of its weekly publication mold a bit to cover a story about the administration’s decision to cut varsity sports funding to the Alpine and Nordic ski teams. The same day the announcement was made we had an article written by one of the Editors-in-Chief posted, and started spreading [...]

Although the Whitman Pioneer has had a web presence since 2007 when it launched a self-hosted version of WordPress by Daniel Bachhuber and Andrew Witherspoon, we wanted to launch this semester with a redesign from the ground up. The result of this process launched last week with our first print issue of the semester. The Design Process When thinking [...]