Our Weblog
We just wanted to take this opportunity to give you a progress report on our website relaunch efforts.
We have finalized our latest artwork and verified our new page template in A-Grade browsers.
Our only major dependency is active javascript support so we can accommodate Internet Explorer 6 and inject non-semantic markup to serve as scaffolding for style-sheet based visual effects like our translucent rounded corners.
In-page navigation will be handled by leveraging the Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries to support our own animated user interface code. Retrofitting this new code to provide Explorer users with a comparable experience is proving to be a bit more daunting than we anticipated, so we can’t venture to say when everything will be good to go live, beyond our good faith estimate that we should be back up and running early in the Fall 2008 Academic Semester.
At that point we will be able to revise most of our old materials and consolidate them into a smaller number of content rich composite pages to dramatically reduce the navigational overhead of exploring our offerings. Until then, most of our legacy content is offline, but you can still find much of it through The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine if you are so motivated.