Luther College Redesigns Web Presence

Check out my alma mater’s recent redesign of their website. Congrats to everyone who worked on the Luther College redesign. Nice job, folks! The site just launched on Friday, and already I’m hearing lots of rave reviews.

The new design especially tickles the web designer in me. You’ll note that they’re using XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS, and plenty of semantic markup to render a page that delights the eye. I’m really impressed. Special congratulations go to my friend, the web editor, who I won’t “out” in this forum, unless he wants to be out’ed.

This new design will raise the bar for private liberal arts colleges in general. I’ve tested the site in IE6.0/Firefox on Windows and Safari2.0/Firefox on Mac, and it looks great. I can tell just by looking at the code that it will “degrade” nicely in very old browsers that don’t understand anything past 1997. The new(-ish) wordmark also looks good in this environment. I think the old Luther College wordmark was very beautiful and ornate but probably didn’t translate well into a web graphic. Congrats again to everyone at Luther who worked on this for a job well done!