Also About the Webmaster

History

Sam Tyson, a student who is currently serving as webmaster for the School, developed this site from the ground up starting in the Spring semester of 2006. The intention was to develop a fully function site that was both comprehensive and easily navigable for such a large and still-developing school at the College.

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About this Design

After spending several weeks early in the development process engineering an image that expressed the interconnectedness of the world and languages through the use of a world map and a large tree, the design was shot down but the motif persisted.

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Philosophy

The design principles that Sam employs are simple: the site has to be quick to load, interesting to look at, easy to navigate, coherent, and easy to update. As a result, Sam spends much of him design time in building very robust stylesheets that control the look and feel of a web site so that changes to the look of a site can be made immediately.

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