Early 1993: CCIT employee Barry Johnson created the first Clemson University Web site. It ran off a workstation at his desk in the basement of Poole, running a variant of UNIX called DG/UX. The hompage was mostly a listing of sites within Clemson University.
1994: A Web task force was created, comprised of faculty, staff and students, which met for several months before passing the responsibility of the site’s look and feel to Advancement and the site’s equipment and infrastructure to CCIT. Over the next year, the site was tweaked for design and organization.
1996: CCIT’s January 1996 Computing newsletter featured an article explaining why the Web was such an important tool for Clemson University.
June 1997: The first major site redesign in 1997 was dubbed “Clemson’s roar heard around the world!” Publications and Promotion, housed under Advancement, led the effort. This also marked the beginning of tracking visitor statistics.
April 1998: Clemson’s site received its one millionth hit!
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Summer 2005: A bid was awarded to Dell Computers to perform an extensive audit of www.clemson.edu and to make recommendations for implementing a new site that would better serve our audiences.
2006: Thirty-four Clemson VIPs were interviewed about what they wanted to see on the site, and 860 surveys were conducted with our most important audiences.
Fall 2006: Office of Web Services was created to implement the V2.0 redesign.
February 2007: Web site published to explain the role of the Office of Web Services on campus and to provide resources for accessibility, governance policies and Web styleguidelines: www.clemson.edu/ows.
February 23, 2007: The Tiger ran an article highlighting the redesign project.
Spring 2007: Office of Web Services presented the redesign concepts and solicited feedback from groups across campus, including College Consultants, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Staff Senate, Student Guide Association, Undergraduate Student Government and Parents' Council.
April 2007: Based on user feedback, the site was adapted for the May launch.
October 2007: Based on user feedback, the site was adapted for the fall break launch.