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Share the Academic Festival excitement! This year, you can access many of the festival's excellent poster presentations. Continue reading →

The 2013 revision of the college's editorial style guide will help Wheaton writers and editors maintain consistency in their print and electronic publications. Continue reading →

If you haven't been to Wheaton's gorgeous new Greenhouse yet, you owe yourself a trip. Till then, you can explore it virtually thanks to their newly-refreshed site--complete with photos of the plants that are in bloom now. Continue reading →

The "Broken Links" tool is a convenient and efficient way to keep your site healthy. Continue reading →

This is new five-course minor will give you an opportunity to approach social justice as a practical as well as an intellectual problem. Continue reading →

Did you notice Wheaton's refreshed homepage? It's the one with the b-i-g photo! Drop us a note at web@wheatoncollege.edu and let us know what you think. Continue reading →

This refreshed site offers updates about courses, as well as news from students who are pursuing exciting opportunities abroad. Continue reading →

If you're looking for ways to make your department's services even more accessible and efficient, consider this great model from your colleagues in ResLife. Students can use this simple form to request a later departure time or housing during Thanksgiving Break. Continue reading →

Archives has unveiled The Wheaton College Timeline. This new site is enhanced with fascinating photographs, documents and links; it explores important college events and people from its establishment in 1834 until the present. Don't miss it! Continue reading →

Get a glimpse into the college's wonderful Permanent Collection which consists of more than 4,500 objects including photography, sculpture and works on paper and canvas. Continue reading →

The newly-refreshed Lexomics website features an introduction to an immensely interesting topic; the site is rich with research tools, educational materials and publications... and it welcomes reader questions. Continue reading →

Today's smart editors include Maria (SSSR), Jenny (SFS), and Fran (Office & Campus Mail Services). Help is available if you're updating your site. Continue reading →

Wheaton's Autonomous Learning Makerspace is "making/fabrication space meets interdisciplinary research lab" and it's full of people from across campus. Everyone is welcome, and everyone can contribute. Continue reading →

This newly-refreshed site showcases student video projects and research papers... and offers advice from alums. Continue reading →

News is where it's at. We encourage you to share lots of news from your area by creating posts. Here's how... Continue reading →

Editors: July might just be the perfect time to review the contents of your department site's Media Library. Continue reading →

Easy as 1-2-3. Here's how to include a gallery of photos on a post in your site. Continue reading →

Summer is coming to Wheaton. As you prepare your site content, please remember our documentation and the "no suffering in silence" rule. Contact us with questions big and small. Continue reading →

Find out about events and opportunities for Wheaton staff: college stories, All-Staff Meeting agendas, classified ads and more. Continue reading →

Students: Start something great! Stop by this newly-refreshed site to learn about personalized career planning services, news, and events. Continue reading →

Did you know? It's easier than ever to share Wheaton web content with friends. Continue reading →

Stop by and visit the refreshed tutoring schedules. They're available now--complete with listing of outstanding peer tutors in each of three areas: quantitative analysis, subject and writing. Continue reading →

If you're a Wheaton web editor who creates content for your department website, read on... You'll learn how to craft a professional-looking post and more. Continue reading →

If you're organizing a great event this semester, get the word out while saving a tree. Use the Digital Poster Machine and your event poster will appear in the Library lobby's big screen and Wheaton's calendar page. Continue reading →

The current homepage design is now two years old... so we tuned it up. You'll find all the current features in familiar places, but with a new graphic look. Plus, we've added more large photo feature stories, a ticker with news from throughout the college, and a sitemap at the bottom of the page. Please send any bug reports to web@wheatoncollege.edu. Continue reading →

We think you'll be quite happy with the improvements. Continue reading →

'thinking about trying a few new things in 2012? We have some suggestions. Continue reading →

Web usability researcher Jakob Nielsen has excellent advice for Wheaton's web writers: Be succinct. Continue reading →

This "refresh" brings a more engaging Admission site closer to its print pieces. Continue reading →

We're running a new version of WordPress so you may notice that the editor looks a little bit different. Continue reading →

If you're creating content on Wheaton's site, you're invited to our next Web Salon (be prepared for a web-related gift exchange)... Continue reading →

Editors: December's Web Salon will be here before you know it so we're looking for your topic suggestions. Please drop us a note to let us know what do you want to learn. Thanks!

Editors are invited to attend on November 1st . Learn about Wheaton’s site, its traffic–and what you can do that’s likely to make a positive difference. Continue reading →

It's here! Come meet our beautiful new building. Continue reading →

Editors: "Window shading" can make long web pages easier to scan, while keeping details close by. Here's how to do it. Continue reading →

It's been a long summer... So, if you're having trouble remembering how to sign in to your Wheaton web editor account, here's some help. Continue reading →

Congratulations to the many departments that made the time to refresh their sites this summer. These simple ideas can help you keep your site healthy. Continue reading →

Welcome back! We cranked up the Digital Poster machine just in time for your arrival--and a fresh crop of posters awaits you. If organizing an event this year, please consider saving a tree by publishing its information digitally. Continue reading →

At Wheaton, you have many ways to major in English, and a beautifully refreshed site to learn about the English Department. Continue reading →

Stop by this site if you're looking for news about Wheaton students, faculty and alumnae/i in the sciences. Continue reading →

Times have changed. The Web Team can now offer you ways to produce print-outs you can be proud of. Continue reading →

Wheaton's faculty are constantly engaged in original research, and for years Wheaton students of many disciplines have contributed to this work. There's a new site to help you discover it. Continue reading →

This new online exhibit will give you a unique opportunity to view Evans’ photographs of Wheaton. Continue reading →

We were so touched to receive this delicious "thank you" from our friend Beth upon her return from an exotic vacation. Continue reading →

Wheaton employees will find information about benefits, compensation, professional development, college policies and work-related issues and concerns on this newly refreshed site. Continue reading →

New and returning students alike are invited to visit this site and learn about Wheaton's support services. Continue reading →

The music department has announced a beautiful new website. You'll find lots of news about people and the interesting things they're doing at Wheaton and beyond. Continue reading →

Wheaton students write all over the place! You're invited to visit this new site to learn about important writing resources for students. Continue reading →

Wheaton will host the New England Renaissance Conference in November thanks to conference organizers Touba Ghadessi and Gen Liang. See their beautiful new site for information. Continue reading →

Check out this phenomenal exhibit about the architectural history of the college. Continue reading →

A college education is one of the most important investments you will ever make. SFS can help you plan for it. Continue reading →

Student + Job + Work = Skills + Pay check! Come see what the fine people of the Student Employment Office do to help you. Continue reading →

Our students (and alumnae and alumni) are working to change the world. Find out more when you visit Political Science's new site. Continue reading →

Conference & Event Services has just unveiled a new tool for those planning Wheaton-based business meetings, conferences, camps or social events. Check it out... and help spread the word. Continue reading →

Editors, please register today for "The lazy way to webpage beauty…" (June’s Web Salon). Space is limited. Continue reading →

We're delighted to unveil a new faculty directory. You can view profiles by department or last name--or select your favorite professor's face from the people quilt that runs down the right side of the index. Continue reading →

Have you look at the Editor Help section lately? If you're an editor, you'll be interested in our tips for perking up pages and posts with news, photos, slideshows, videos and forms. Continue reading →

They came by to catch a special "sneak peek" at a new profile editor we've been cooking up. Continue reading →

Lucy Morse collected over 80 fascinating and rare pairs of shoes on her travels around the world. Now, you can explore the collection, too! Continue reading →

Visit today and find history news, courses offered for Fall 2011 and a vibrant community. Continue reading →

Wheaton has a new site for its new interdisciplinary program. Continue reading →

Wheaton's Academic Planning Guide has a new website, and it's the perfect place to start your journey. Continue reading →

Editors: We’ll look at changes to changes to your editing interface, and explore a new plugin or two. Registration's required due to limited seating.  

For twenty years, Wheaton's annual Academic Festival has celebrated student scholarship and creativity. Now, thanks to Jim Mancall and colleagues, it has a website, too. Continue reading →

The same good people who help you with transcripts, enrollments and course schedules, have designed a new guide to help you access their many other services. Stop by their new site and look for the "Registrar A-Z" directory. Continue reading →

If you edit official college webpages, you will notice some changes to your Wordpress interface. Continue reading →

Editors: We’ll look at changes to changes to your editing interface, and explore a new plugin or two. Registration's required due to limited seating. Continue reading →

Editors: We're all about making your web-editing life a breeze. Once you've signed in to Wheaton's site, type an "e" from one of your pages to go straight to that page's editing area, and type a "d" to go straight … Continue reading →

As part of the conversion of the College Archives and Special Collections a new site for Wheaton College history is available now. It's rich in detail and amazing photographs: browse by subject, browse by decade or search. Continue reading →

The Web Team regularly gathers those who oversee Wheaton's web content for informal conversation about the college's site. Our Web Salons are a great place to learn more about the mechanics of publishing department news, explore great examples, and get the … Continue reading →

The next time you use Wheaton's search box, take a closer look at the results page. You can further refine your search, limiting it to college archives and history, course descriptions, faculty profiles or "all of Wheaton". Continue reading →

Behind-the-scenes teamwork takes on an artistic flare in this beautiful mosaic of new Wheaton sites launched... Continue reading →

This is one resource-rich site that will help you take care of business. Visit today to find support and timely news from the friendly folks at Business Services. Continue reading →

Find out about Library and Information Services (LIS) on their newly-refreshed site. Continue reading →

Wheaton students, staff, and faculty have been digitizing documents from the Wheaton Family Papers since spring 2005. Find out more by visiting The Wheaton College Digital History Project's new site. Continue reading →

Mobile devices will find the college's webpages even friendlier now. We've made many changes under the hood so that our website displays well on phones and other small-screen devices. Take a look the next time you're untethered, and let us … Continue reading →

The magazine for the Wheaton community is has a new site. We think you'll like it! Continue reading →

BAC members encourage students, faculty and staff to use this new site to learn about and communicate with the committee. Continue reading →

Congratulations to Wheaton's Counseling Center! The staff there has refreshed their website and moved all the content into the college's new management system. Continue reading →

Visit Student Government Association's new site to learn about Wheaton's Student Senate, Executive Board, Executive Councils--and SGA's news, information and current priorities. Continue reading →

LIS has revamped this site to share news and information about accessing technology services and support at Wheaton. Continue reading →

The Center for Global Education has unveiled a beautiful map of Wheaton's "study abroad" experiences. Continue reading →

Wheaton College takes sexual assault very seriously, and has developed a comprehensive definition and policy related to sexual misconduct. This new site offers information, definitions, resources and links you can use to learn more about sexual assault.

The Center for Global Education has launched a beautiful new site! This site serves as a hub of resources for students, faculty and staff who wish to engage directly with the world. Stop by today.

Congratulations to the staff of Conference and Event Services department. They have unveiled a new site for Wheaton's event planners that offers 'round-the-clock access to useful information and convenient tools.

The Provost's web site has been thoroughly revamped thanks to the intensive efforts of Elita Pastra-Landis and Bernice Morrissey over the last year. Congratulations on a job well-done!

The Office of the Dean of Students has created a new site designed to support the partnership Wheaton has with families in support of student success. Continue reading →

The very capable crew over in the Office of Student Activities, Involvement & Leadership (SAIL) has hoisted sail on a sleek new website—and they're underway toward orientation. Continue reading →

The new Office of Residential Life has a created a fresh new website. Stop by and have a look around. Continue reading →

Looking for information about parking or identification cards? Visit Public Safety's new site. Continue reading →

Service, Spirituality, and Social Responsibility (SSSR) invites you to drop by their new site. Continue reading →

If you ever wonder about information security and confidentiality, visit the newly-updated site for Records and Information Management (RIM). Continue reading →

The Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning has a new site. Continue reading →

Visit the Library's inviting new site. Continue reading →

The Yellow Wood Commission launched their site this summer. Continue reading →

Staff Council's website has been reviewed, updated and moved to Wordpress. Continue reading →

After a summer of thoughtful and dedicated work, Career Services launched a beautiful new website. Continue reading →

There's a way to have a department web that's effective, beautiful and easy to manage... Continue reading →

Health & Wellness launched an attractive web resource for students and parents. Continue reading →

Physical Plant improved website includes information about the department's services, a phone directory, and more. Continue reading →

Finding out what's happening all over campus has never been easier. Continue reading →

The Web Team has been working with staff, faculty and students to review and improve nearly 100 departmental websites this summer. Many of them will be coming live in the next two weeks. Continue reading →

Today all 48 academic websites have moved into our new editor. Site visitors will find several immediate improvements, including a direct link to the course schedule from every course description. Continue reading →

Wheaton's web site welcomes many visitors each and every day. If you manage web pages, please block off a regular time in your calendar to review them. Continue reading →

We've found that visitors arrive in one of two modes: they're either seeking something in particular or they want to browse and see what we have. Continue reading →

Some of the college's most influential people are hidden in plain sight. Continue reading →

As we've been going through the renovation process, setting goals, reviewing design proposals, and building information architecture, we've depended for advice on the members of the Web Renovation Working Group, including representatives from all divisions of the college. They have … Continue reading →

Another selection from White Whale's strategic recommendations for the renovated Wheaton web site: "What differentiates Wheaton, in the end, is not the beauty of its buildings or the pedigrees of its faculty (although both of those are impressive)— it’s the … Continue reading →

Of course Wheaton's web renovation is more than just a new look. It's also about making our website work harder for us. Our consultant team visits a lot of college campuses. After spending time at Wheaton, they told us that … Continue reading →

In the past year we've heard over and over that Wheaton students, faculty, staff and alumnae/i are doing great quantities of wonderful things, but most of them never make it to the web site. You don't have to know much … Continue reading →

As we're rethinking the design of the Wheaton web site we're also rethinking its organization and navigation. White Whale's recommendations sometimes sound simple and obvious, but following them carefully will make a difference. Here are a few samples. If you … Continue reading →

Increasingly we are asked about the appropriateness of links to commercial enterprises from Wheaton College web pages. Today we're announcing a policy guide to help web page editors understand both the desirability of useful external links and the unacceptability of … Continue reading →

Another selection from White Whale's strategic recommendations for the renovated Wheaton web site: "Wheaton's campus evokes something different, and meaningful, in everyone who sees it. A prospective student in Texas sees the New England autumn that she’s only read about. … Continue reading →

After taking some time to digest what they heard on campus, our consultants at White Whale have delivered a set of strategic recommendations for the renovated Wheaton web site. Their first recommendation really resonates with me--it's a nice twist on … Continue reading →

Thank you to everyone who contributed to last week's web renovation conversations! The Web Team, with help from White Whale, gathered an enormous amount of community input in more than twenty meetings with more than 80 Wheaton students, faculty and staff. Continue reading →

We need your ideas and observations about the Wheaton web site. Please take time from your busy schedule to help shape the next Wheaton web. We're holding an open idea session for staff on Friday 4/24 from 11 am to … Continue reading →

We received many questions after our recent announcement. Here are a few... Continue reading →

The Web Strategy Team, in collaboration with our colleagues in Communications and the entire campus community, will soon begin a renovation of Wheaton College's website that we expect to complete by next fall. In a time of greatly constrained resources, … Continue reading →

You can hide the big photo slideshow on Wheaton's homepage. This can be useful if you are viewing our homepage on a mobile device and wishing for a lighter-weight page. It's easy. Just click the "Hide slideshow" link in the … Continue reading →

insideWheaton's "Seniors" tab, a valuable new resource for Wheaton's Senior class, was introduced on November 12, 2008. Ana O'Brien, of the Office of the Registrar, was the mover-and-shaker behind this idea. Ana shared some practical advice for anyone who would … Continue reading →

The front door of Wheaton's online presence, the college's home page, will be getting a new and more exciting look for the new academic year. The new home page is designed to better represent the vitality of the college community … Continue reading →

Visit insideWheaton for convenient, one-stop access to the college's news, events and web-based services. This could be your new home page! Use your wID and email password to sign in whether you're on- or off-campus. While there, check your email, … Continue reading →

The Web Strategy Team's web site is sporting a new blog. Why? We expect to introduce several new services over the few months, and we wanted a good way to keep you in the loop. As new services become available, … Continue reading →

The fall just past was a busy time, with lots of web work going on behind the scenes. Many new and revised department sites made their appearances, including new sites for SSSR and Recreation, and greatly-improved navigation for the Human … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, Wheaton's web site received an interim facelift. The web site now shows more of the "whos and whats of Wheaton" with a brighter, cleaner look that includes more photos, more people, and … Continue reading →