Comments on: New BIAD site

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:21:50 +0000

Who is this David Oz!? He’s clearly a master when it comes to sculpting a site out of Drupal.

I like the big drop shaddowed text â€“ very nice. Not sure about the colours and the feathering, but it looks like a nice working site.

Students/faculties should organise more of these independent sites to show off work and research. They provide a much greater insight for propestive students than the offical biad/bcu sites.

By: Robert Sharl

Robert Sharl — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:56:41 +0000

I'm sure this site was done a while back, but the Fine Art department may have only just gotten around to launching it. Anyway, David Osbaldestin is the chappie behind it.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:49:08 +0000

“And we shall judge them by their content management systems”
Proverbs, 12:52, or some shit

By: nikki

nikki — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:37:38 +0000

(that should be Drupal plus slightly unofficial, but the symbol didn’t register)

By: nikki

nikki — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:36:10 +0000

Drupal slightly unofficial. Marvellous! Credibility rating going up…

Wondering vaguely about comments elsewhere that Drupal is superb for co-blogging and community stuff who would we like to see providing the content for the site? …

By: Ronald Iguana

Ronald Iguana — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:39:04 +0000

Well the BCU Intranet has been redone using it, it might work one day :P

By: Stef Lewandowski

Stef Lewandowski — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:48:57 +0000

That reminds me of something funny that Jared Spool said at the dConstruct conference this year: "For those of you who haven't heard of Sharepoint, Sharepoint is an amazing way to destroy a business. Building an intranet using Sharepoint is like having a friend take you to a lumber yard and tell you 'everything you need to build your house is here - get going'".

By: Ronald Iguana

Ronald Iguana — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:12:19 +0000

A new BIAD site wouldn’t be using anything other than Sharepoint as the CMS, thats the policy now unfortunately.

By: Charlotte Caret

Charlotte Caret — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:52:31 +0000

Not convinced this is a new site. BIAD’s original site is still available:
http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/home.htm
As is the centralised version.

This site, I beleive, is specifically from the Fine Art dept.

These are interesting comments and I don’t expect I am the only person from BCU reading.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:52:44 +0000

Though I don’t think the look of it is up to much (the .titles remind me of the Birmingham Artists website, and the colours are unpleasant), content-wise it’s interesting.

I think it’ll give current and prospective students a much better idea of what’s going on, who’s who and, I suppose, more of a sense of belonging to a community. It certainly helps the faculty come across as being progressive, which I guess is pretty important for an art school.

By: nikki

nikki — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:29:28 +0000

I'm impressed that there are staff and research sections to the gallery too, but wouldn't it be great if a departmental/campus site like this could leave the prospectus-type stuff like the about and courses pages to the main BIAD site and instead solely feature the events and work being produced? Go on! It's nearly there! .ac.uk or .org, not .com!