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Mobile-friendly academic website conversions: Summer 2015

An update on the mobile-friendly conversion process for academic websites: Six departmental websites are now published in the mobile-friendly template with thirteen currently in conversion.

September 8, 2015 by Lucie Amberg

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Mobile usage is growing exponentially — particularly among our largest demographics of prospective students, Millennials and Gen Z.

Google recently experienced two mobile milestones:

  • The mobile tipping point, in which the number of mobile searches in the U.S. surpassed searches on PCs
  • Mobilegeddon, a change to the Google search algorithm that benefits mobile-friendly websites over their non-mobile-friendly counterparts

Missouri State content viewed on a smartphoneAcademic websites converting to mobile

Our office began the process of converting all academic department websites to a mobile-friendly format early this year.

The conversion process is not a complete redesign. Instead, it converts each site to the mobile template and reorganizes existing content for consumption on mobile devices.

Like the academic website redesigns, conversions are funded by the provost’s office and processed on a college-by-college rotation according to the deans’ prioritization.

Websites that are converted to the mobile-friendly template will later undergo redesign, during which new content, multimedia elements and design elements will be created. This two-step process allows our office to optimize all academic websites for mobile consumption as quickly as possible.

Summer 2015 progress

Over the summer, we completed and published the following mobile-friendly website conversions:

  • Psychology
  • MBA
  • Communication
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Childhood Education and Family Studies
  • Mathematics

An additional 13 websites are currently in conversion and will be published in the mobile-friendly format this fall. The conversion process will continue until all academic departmental websites are optimized for mobile consumption.

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Lucie Amberg coordinates communications for the College of Arts and Letters.

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  • Redesigned biology website: Diverse programs in a mobile-friendly format - January 7, 2016

Filed Under: Academic websites, Mobile, Web redesign 2015, web strategy and development Tagged With: academic website, conversion, mobile, mobile friendly, recruitment

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