OVPUE Website Modernization Project

With the completion of HPPLC’s new website and guidebook, OVPUE IT’s Web communications team has completed the four-year OVPUE Website Modernization project that began in 2015. All standard OVPUE websites are now more visually appealing, far more accessible, and consistent with IU’s brand and the IU Web Framework.

The project to update all OVPUE websites started in 2015 with an infusion of funding for hiring additional staff in OVPUE IT expanding the web and applications teams from three staff to six. The OVPUE IT Web Communications team (then comprised of Matt Berry, Nathan Rodriguez, and Rachel O’Connor) began by building an entire web framework from scratch and releasing updated ACP and UD websites, then we were notified that the IU Web Framework would be made available for general use. Since then, we’ve updated ACP and UD, and moved each OVPUE site, one by one, with the incredible help of staff from every corner of OVPUE, into updated, accessible new sites.

OVPUE also grew over those four years. In 2015, OVPUE had 21 websites. In 2019, we now have 34 websites in production and an additional website for CEW&T underway. Sites for Lifelong Learning and Sustaining Hoosier Communities were also built and then transferred to those programs’ new departments. The web landscape of OVPUE looks very different in June 2019 than it did in June 2015.

This is a huge accomplishment not just for the OVPUE IT team but for everyone in OVPUE who wrote content, made suggestions about organization, and provided their expertise in what students and faculty need out of their units’ websites.