Working as the resident graphic designer and webmaster (greatest antiquated job title ever) at college radio station Radio K gave me the opportunity to redesign its site. It’d been a long time coming. While the previous version was certainly serviceable from an aesthetic standpoint, years of accumulation had turned it into a chore to update and a nightmare to browse, with a page count in the hundreds and nearly as many glaring inconsistencies. It was a tangled mess, and it didn’t take long to realize that a complete overhaul was in order.
With that, the direction of the new site became clear: it was to have nine major overarching categories of content (represented as the sectional tabs in the header), each of which would then be divided into smaller groupings of content (represented as the various white boxes beneath). This new architecture—in combination with a few helpful dynamically-generated pieces of content, a new emphasis on recurring updates in the news blog, and a brand new look—resulted in the much simpler, fresher, and more engaging site seen here.
