Introducing “Faces of Saint Anselm”
BarkleyREI has designed an engaging Flash piece that will be used in the right sidebar of the redesigned Web site to present profiles of current students, faculty, and alumni across the site. Internally, we’ve been calling it “Faces” for some time now. We think BarkleyREI has done a great job in designing this particular Flash application and we are looking forward to using it as it will allow us to display profiles in a new and more interactive way.
Faces Overview
As described above, the “Faces” Flash piece will live within the right sidebar of select pages throughout the site. When clicked on, an overlay will open above the page. Each profile will include name, class year, major, a short text profile, and “Dig Deeper” links, which will link people to relevant Web pages within the Saint Anselm Web site. Each profile will include either a photo gallery of images (relevant to the person profiled) or a single video or audio/photo slide show.
Profile content will be managed within the Ingeniux CMS via XML to allow for easy updating and the addition of new profiles. This will also allow us to display a Flash alternative version of this site feature.
We’ve also asked BarkleyREI to allow us to use a basic taxonomy with the “Faces” piece that will permit us to display and sort the profiles by major so we can include them on academic major pages to highlight current students and faculty as well as alumni outcomes.
We’ve planned for three two “engagement” Flash pieces to be used on the redesigned site – “the Wall” gallery which will be featured on the college home page, a virtual tour, and “Faces.” Additionally, we’ve allowed for the right column of the CMS to be used for displaying Flickr photo RSS feeds, embedded YouTube videos, photo galleries, and related links (links to content related to the page being displayed).
Update 11/25/09: Given budget constraints and the large volume of work remaining on the redesign project, we’ve decided to push the development of the virtual tour off to phase two of the project.
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