Enhance the Web Presence of Your Factbook: Why

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Enhance the Web Presence of Your Factbook Why?

• Robin Gould
• Illinois State University
• November 2007

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History of the FactBook

• First printed FactBook in 1987.
• First published on the web in 1998.
• Looked like the printed book
• Few graphics
• Dense tables
• Portrait Orientation

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End Users have Changed

• External audience has increased
• Big picture
• More visual
• Linked to the University
• Internal audience
• More details
• Less visual

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New Design

• In preparation of ISUs sesquicentennial
  developed a new look for the 2006 FactBook.
• Color, graphics, and landscape pages.
• Name and University seal on every page.

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No Longer Looks or Feels Like a Paper Copy
Published on the Web

• Reduced the number of cuts per page.
• Added white space.
• One Excel document.
• Created a PDF document for the web.

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Graduate School DataBook

• Arranged by program/major instead of by topic.
• Topic tables are still available for longitudinal
  studies.

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Comments

• Vice President Finally a FactBook we can use!
• Director of the Graduate School The new design
  and layout are quantum improvements over the old
  format. The new DataBook will be a great step
  forward in user friendliness.

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Next Steps

• Drill Down
• Starting to look at software
• WebFocus
• SAS
• Others

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Questions?