Janet Douglas said the face of the SIUC Web site hasn’t changed much during intercession – but the number of people visiting it has nearly doubled.

“There were 1.3 million visits compared to last year’s 750,000,” said Douglas, Web services leader of University Communications. “More interesting than that is the people are viewing more of the pages.”

The SIUC Web site was revamped in April with the intention of making it simpler, more concise and user-friendly, Douglas said.

Although more people are utilizing more of the site, Douglas said there is still work to be done.

Additional webisodes have been added and corrections to links are being made to the SIUC homepage, but the focus is now more on research and focus groups to assist SIUC’s colleges with their homepages.

Douglas said, for some colleges, a faculty member or secretary is in charge of the Web site. She said the School of Music and the School of Law are among the colleges Web services is helping update their sites.

Brian Wagner, a music instruction specialist who was recently put in charge of the School of Music’s site, said many people work on it.

“I haven’t really done anything on it but there are many people who have a hand in it,” Wagner said.

Another SIUC Web site that has made some changes is the Morris Library homepage.

Web development librarian Cassie Wagner said some of the changes the library made to its Web site were due to changes in the SIUC homepage, but most were in response to a change in university policy.

Wagner said the major change was to the banner, which was too thick and pushed content off the page.

Jakina Hill can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 249 or [email protected].