For our final project, we explored the rich history of Carleton College’s traditions. On our website, we have a timeline of all of Carleton’s past and present traditions and individual pages giving more detailed information on each tradition. We also included a SketchUp model of Sayles, the hub of Carleton’s social life and the site of many important events and traditions. Visit our final project here to learn more about Carleton’s traditions and past! https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/carleton-traditions/
Additionally, here is our Pecha Kucha presentation introducing a bit more about our project: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQ74YzoNTlBgHH-DputjThVWWlf5dySedbou_W1k0TZfY9ywLzaBWGKS9hyBlM0oOG97UpwV8LM3o1z/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=20000&slide=id.p
Team Traditions,
Your timeline is great and a very effective means of navigating through all of the different traditions, which you have written up and sourced very well. My biggest suggestion for improvement at this point regards the structure of your site.
Right now, the sidebar is not very effective for navigation, since it basically just sorts and returns the same three elements different ways. WordPress is set up to sort and return lists of posts much more effectively than pages, which are intended more for static content. Ideally your posts would be pages (home, timeline, model, list) and all the traditions would be posts. That way, you can pull lists of posts into the sidebar or onto pages like /traditions and list them with thumbnails, etc. I installed a Post Type Switcher plugin for you, so you can do bulk edit them and switch all. I would also then encourage you to switch to a different theme like Escapade, Nanospace or Liquido that allows you to make pages take up the full width with a full width template. That way your home page, and especially timeline and model embeds will be large enough to use more effectively.
On the Sayles Hill model, you could use more information and a more interactive display. How was the model built? What was the process? Why did you not include the gym to the north of the entrance? The still render currently clicks through to an image on the college website. Instead, I urge you to embed an interactive version with a link to the model itself on the 3D warehouse. The SketchUp site has instructions for how to upload a 3D model to the warehouse and how to share the interactive model in your website.
With these changes, your excellent content will be more accessible and appreciable to site visitors.
Thank you so much for the feedback! We changed our posts to pages and traditions pages to posts, allowing us more flexibility to add categories. Now we separated the posts into three categories (before-1980, after-1980, and not-practices). We also updated the theme and changed our navigation to be more user-centric. Now, we will add more information about the Sayles Hill model, and we are still finishing up adding the sources.