Law School Homepage Data and Design Trends

In designing a law school homepage, there are many design decisions to make: JavaScript? Flash? Rotating images? How big should the logo be? Who gets space in this limited real estate? Come to this session to learn about a project conducted to capture and analyze homepages for more than 200 law schools, including online-only institutions.

During February and March 2009, the Georgetown Law Library collected screenshots and data about law school homepages.
 
Download the entire report here: Law School Website Design Study 2009
Based on data from over 200 website homepages, the report includes details about site colors, display sizes, script usage, site search and several individual design elements. During this session, I will:

• provide charts and data about specific site elements
• present examples of site design elements
• discuss and critique data collection methods
• eplore ideas for additional use of this data

This report should be relevant for any school planning a site redesign or benchmarking your school's site with others.