I like the simplicity of both designs but the second design seems more modern and fresh. It has a real design to it instead of a boxed table layout.

not bad - seems like it could be easy to nav

Great improvements!

I think the Alumni page now doesn't even look like its own page. I LOVE the new page!

Off late, I have been using high ppi displays (about 125ppi) and this causes to osu website to look painfully small. I have to zoom the page to make it readable, but this messes up the formatting. The full page zoom in latest browsers maintains the formatting, but messes up the quality of all the images.
It would be great if the new website would render on a 125ppi display as nicely as it would on a 90ppi display, without the user having to adjust the zoom settings.

really? we're putting facebook links on the webpage? i understand that we want to incorporate new technology and the hottest trends, but that's just the problem. new internet trends quickly fade.

Facebook has become a way of life for many students; in order for us to stay current, Ohio State needs an online social-networking presence. The university has a Facebook page--http://osu.facebook.com/osu--and we plan on making it possible for users to share our content on the site.

That said, the new attention doesn't affect our primary goal: to produce solid content presented in a well-designed manner. Facebook is just the icing on the cake, so to speak.

Don't make it too bulky, leave area for eye-air circulation, don't overstuff it

Make the default font large enough so that we can read it. The font on this page I am posting from (the redesign page) is too small.

Allow the font sizes to be resized larger gracefully, so that my old eyes can read it. This web page (the redesign page) does this well. An example of a page/site which works badly is the James Hospital site (www.jamesline.com) Their default font is too small, and only one application of -<+> in Firefox really fouls up the appearance, makes the content double-wide, and the horizontal scrollbar needs to be used to read the contents I am interested in. Very clumsy.

It needs a log-off or a logout button. It is so annoying to have to exit an entire browser (including other pages that may be up in different tabs) just to log-out so someone else can log in as theirs. It shouldn't be difficult to do and it would be really nice to have.

Looks great! Everything is easy to find!