I really like it, because of the pull-down menu that doesn't overlap the whole site, in contrary to most pull-down menu's on other websites. Very innovative!

FastCompany.com has revamped their site and implemented the ability for users to easily and immediately engage in social interaction in order to enhance static content.

Is crazy to think OSU could do the same?

I think the online registration process can be improved. I would like to register for classes with my department and course number. It is annoying to first look up my classes in the master schedule and then go to the registration page. Taking out the step to retrieve the call number would greatly improve the process.

I also find getting registered a chore... once you figure it out, the rest is user friendly.

Email seems to have more than average problems.

Financials have been great!

The font you use looks bad, and the plain white background on everything does too. The whole website looks cheap - not a good look for the nation's largest university. I was originally really turned off by the difficulty navigating this website and the unappealing nature of it.

The website's white background leaves a lot to be determined, as it makes for difficult viewing of everything on the main page. Also, it's fun to see different designs being used, but using the different fonts (larger to smaller) for accessing the more popular pages looks elementary. Based on today's technology, I would have thought the OSU webpage would look more structured and appealing. I truly hope more time and effort is going into the refortmatting of our website; not to mention, there is little on the page that makes the viewer feel warm and fuzzy.

I think this is better than the last design. I don't mind the white background... looks clean and less cluttered than many web sites I've seen. I like the Ohio map moved down and being less prominent. I can't recall all the differences from the previous version, but my initial reaction is that it seems easier to navigate. The pull downs are definitely helpful.

It's really important that you make the page dynamic to adapt to different screen sizes. The problem is glaring for people with 16:9 monitors. Also, the blue is too pale and very close to UNC's baby blue. A darker shade would help.

Something about the way the main menu tabs are designed just looks bad. They come off as clunky and poorly done. Rest of the layout is looking pretty good.

This design has crossed the line. Being useful and informative is necessary. Being all things to all people is impossible. I suggest printing the current design, folding it in half and dropping everything on the bottom half. JMO

I don't have issue with the white background where text is as some others have. It's very readable that way. The rest of the page background could, perhaps, be given some depth to make it a bit more elegant.

My main comment however, is that the dropdown menus, while handy, are difficult to use if the links are just comma separated. It seems near ubiquity to have each link in its own "block" (line) to make scanning easier.

Keep up the good work!

No matter your artist considerations, the proposed website design is a vast improvement over the current OSU site. While the current site looks cluttered and items on the home page look like they were an "after thought", the new design is clean, crisp and graced with strong photography.

While the site looks "open", the blue font color used throughout causes the design to appear "flat". The addition of another font color for "secondary" items may help give this design some dimension.

The top pull-down menu "tabs" look horrible. Is it really that hard to create some images to replace it or idk..add some COLOR and design? White white white, that's the whole site it seems.

I love the white background- I think it looks clean and sharp. This front page design is very user friendly- I love the tag clouds, too. Those are literally all of the links that I look for on a regular basis...so with this new page, instead of sifting through the site to find buckeye link, there they are, right on the front page! I also like that the regional campus info is on the front page, and that it is graphically represented. In these days when Columbus is optioning more and more students to the regional campuses, that will be a very handy feature.

redesign looks like it could take a cue from USC's homepage (which i think is really easy to navigate). You are asking people to do to much scrolling, and they won't want to. From a "help me find that" standpoint, most parents i speak to on the phone don't actively look for things, and keeping almost everything you need accessible without looking too hard shouldn't be difficult.

also, i don't understand the infatuation with the "O-H-I-O" photos...yeah they are cool, but when you've seen the first 10,000, you've seen them all...and i don't think we need two links to them on the homepage. Photo of the day could be more prominent (as long as it's not constantly an o-h-i-o), and the support, information, centers, and admin need to all be up higher. you've added all this horizontal space, and yet don't really utilize it for anything other than pictures and blocks surrounding pictures...a little clean could help out a lot.