Now with 99% less suck

After months of waiting, it’s finally arrived: LeTourneau’s redesigned website. This week has been quite busy, as we worked to meet the Friday deadline- I worked twelve hours each day, except Friday, when I worked fifteen. There was plenty of drama; someone could probably write a best selling book about the repeated system crashes and the other university departments who apparently had a conspiracy to hinder the Web Development Team as much as possible through their incompetency and lack of forward planning. But that is mostly in the past. The new site is up. Not entirely bug-free, admittedly, but we’ll be continuing to tweak things in the next days and weeks. And no matter what you think of it, it is undeniably a huge improvement over the old version.

7 responses from the peanut gallery about “Now with 99% less suck”
  1. On August 3rd, 2003 at 1:00 pm, eliot said:

    But I liked the PHP hack template system that was used before! It was so easy to use and understand!

    Naah, good job, Andrew. Glad you guys finally got it out the door.

  2. On August 5th, 2003 at 9:32 am, Dang said:

    and you managed to get my picture in there! I’m proud.

  3. On August 5th, 2003 at 2:45 pm, Scof said:

    Allow me to be immature and snipe at your hard work….nah nevermind, it looks good, well nevermind that nevermind: there are pictures of these 3 odd looking individuals at the very top of the page. not sure why larry moe and curly are there, but hey, the layout does look nice!

  4. On August 6th, 2003 at 12:34 pm, someguy said:

    looks real good- the search part doesn’t work yet tho.

  5. On August 14th, 2003 at 5:53 pm, One of the populace said:

    Even though the new website is much less confusing than the old one, it is much less helpful as well. A lot of information has been taken off, as well as the faculty/staff personal web-sites. And what happened to the graphics? Simpler is not always better. Is there a way to access the old site? I’d like to be able to still get the information from it.

  6. On August 14th, 2003 at 11:00 pm, Andrew said:

    Some of the information from the old site has yet to be migrated to the new design- we’re still working on that. There isn’t any access to the old site, but if you can’t find something that used to be there, shoot the web team an email and someone will look into it for you.

  7. On August 15th, 2003 at 9:24 am, ITMarkR said:

    All the faculty/staff personal sites were part of the initial migration, and should still be accessible at their old URL’s (http://www.letu.edu/people/LetnetUsername).

    Don’t know that they’re necessarily linked from anywhere in the main site — that’s turned out to be a touchier issue politically than you might’ve expected — but the content should all still be there.