SOCA is near and dear to my heart. Site is nicely designed and updated by Jonathan Lipps…the sql database is essential to SOCA’s collecting of applicaitons every year for An Art Affair. It is also used for raffling off tixs to SOCA in the City.
It’s hosted offsite and folks are redirected […]

A project I never finished due to lack of technological knowledge is now possible due to easy content managment through blogs. The idea was to archive all Mendicant song arrangments, skit scripts, director’s letters, and organizational information so that the inevitable 4-year turnover would be less catastrophic. The site is a private one, but this […]

http://www.stanford.edu/group/theta/newsletter.shtml: Great knowledge of audience–concentrates heavily on alumni relations; clean layout and content; plenty of imagery to give it an exciting feel; heavily PR driven; easy access to sister site for Theta Breakers running race.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/sigep/home.html: Good use of Stanford Colors; photos on the right side look dynamic (should be if not); combination of news and features on the front page; private section looks to contain group resources (contact list, etc–any SigEps that can check that out for me?); cgi calendar linked to but doesn’t contain anything, wonder why (difficulty […]

http://phipsi.stanford.edu/: Good knowledge of their target audience (alumni, current members, and rushees); visually themed news, though hand-edited (should be blogged/automatic); begging-to-be-realtime widgets like the one charting how much community service has been done to date.
Great concept, difficult execution–a blog-style content manager would be the ideal vehicle for this site.

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The Catholic Community at Stanford website is serious about event listings. I rather like the way they do it and would like to make this possible automatically (I imagine someone’s hand-editing it all as of now). The issue, as it stands, is getting event titles short enough to work well in a view like this. […]