The Michigan State University College of Social Science site was not a site that I designed, I simply built it based on a design chosen by the College.
I made several changes to the design during the development process but none that changed the basic idea. The large photo on the index page had a more complicated treatment applied to it originally but was changed so that the College would more easily be able add their own images to the rotation and the body of the site was placed in a container table and put in the middle of a green background to eliminate any problems with ugly page edges on high-resolution monitors.
One of the more interesting changes was with the “News,” “Events,” and “Spotlight” sections of the index page. Becuase there is only a given amount of space on the index page and we didn’t want the page to expand if one section had more information than the others, the sections scroll independently of each other. If any of the sections contains more content than there is room for, scroll bars appear on that section alone so that the extra content is still available.
In addition to building the template files, I also added some programming to allow for a group of images to be rotated on certain pages, including on the home page.
The site was awarded the “Pride of CASE V” silver award for 2005.
The above text and image were copied directly from my original portfolio as I imported it over to the blog. It was not updated for re-publishing. This project launched in November 2004.