Relaunching the NJIT Website

Beginning during the 2006-2007 academic year, we started relaunching NJIT's website with a new design, information architecture, and in a new CMS.

Read our relaunch FAQ.

Follow our progress here:

Mar 2006

  • mStoner was hired as a consultant for the web redesign project

Apr 2006

  • mStoner conducted interviews on campus for their Strategic Discovery phase
  • mStoner delivered the first draft of their strategy report, Relaunching NJIT.edu ([PDF icon] PDF file)

May 2006

Jun 2006

  • the first Web Project Advisory Committee meeting was held

Jul 2006

  • NJIT formed the office of University Web Services (UWS), reporting to President Bob Altenkirch
  • mStoner delivered the second draft of their strategy report, Relaunching NJIT.edu ( PDF file)

Aug 2006

  • mStoner began delivering content and designs

Sep 2006

  • after several rounds of design feedback, exploration, and refinement a final design direction was chosen

Oct 2006

  • mStoner transformed design into HTML templates and populated templates with content and images
  • new Admissions, Financial Aid, and main NJIT homepage launched on Oct 27

Nov 2006

  • mStoner tweaked and finalized the code (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc.) post-launch
  • UWS began translating finalized code into SiteStudio CMS templates
  • mStoner continued design work on other NJIT pages

Jan 2007

Feb 2007

Mar 2007

Apr 2007

May 2007

June 2007

  • Launch new President's website
  • Re-launch Registrar's website in new design and Site Studio CMS

July 2007

Aug 2007

  • Launch School of Management website in first iteration of new design and in Site Studio CMS
  • Flip NCE website to first iteration of new design

Sep 2007

Oct 2007

  • Recoding of the NJIT homepage to accomodate Flash files
  • Launch of NJIT.tv website

Nov 2007

  • Launch of first iteration improvement of depts of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering

Dec 2007

  • Hire New Media Producer

Jan 2008

  • Target for relaunch of NJIT Newsroom