We're excited to extend a warm McGill Web Services community welcome to our new President, Deep Saini! We look forward to hearing more about President Saini's vision for McGill. After all, we love to be bold! (That's a reference to Deep Saini's words in the McGill Reporter!)
A fresh start
In preparation for President Saini's arrival in April, we worked with the Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor to launch a revamped, streamlined version of the OPVC website. If you're a regular visitor to the site, you might have noticed the new messages already shared by President Saini. Other than that, you might not have noticed any drastic changes...but the new site is actually very different from the previous version.
Our revamp project included a thorough site content audit which allowed us to reduce site content significantly.
Through the audit we identified much of the content (some of which was decades old) could be migrated to archival formats. The result is a new iteration of our Office of the Principal website with 90% less content - from 500 pieces of content (nodes) to about 50!
Benefits of reducing site content
- Increases the visibility of President's Saini's strategic messaging
- Easier to maintain
- Facilitates upcoming changes to site and content management processes:
- Translation requirements
- Drupal 9 upgrade
Revamped homepage
Current layout
Previous layout
Follow Principal Saini online
In addition to the Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor website, you can also keep up with news and announcements shared by Principal Saini on social media.
- Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor website
- McGill President on Twitter
- McGill President on Instagram
Site content auditing resources
Looking to reduce clutter on your website and make your web management process more efficient? Check out our Web Services resources below:
- Article: Why you need an audit
- Article: Spring cleaning: site content auditing!
- Content audit worksheet
- McGill's Digital Standards: Less is more
- User experience toolkit
And here's a few more links you might find interesting:
- A (Very Simple) Sample Menu
- The Paradox of Choice
- Draft a Blueprint
- The paradox of choice : why more is less by Barry Schwartz
- Information architecture: the design and integration of information spaces by Wei Ding, Xia Lin, and Michael Zarro
- Website Carbon Calculator