On Monday December 21, 2015, the CI Giving website was launched with a redone information architecture and new homepage design.

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On Wednesday November 4, 2015, the Housing and Residential Education site was launched with a redone information architecture and new homepage design.

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On Monday November 2, 2015 we launched an updated information architecture and new design for the Chemistry website.

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On September 21, 2015, the VCSTEM website was launched. Please visit http://www.vcstem.org/ for more information.

On August 20, 2015 we launched an updated information architecture and new home page design for Writing and Multiliteracy Center at CI.

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Our little darling just turned one! On Saturday, August 15, CI's mobile-friendly responsive web site celebrated its first birthday, and we sure are proud of it.

It's been a great first year with our site. Here's what we have to show for it:

13% increase in pageviews of the CI web site overall
27% increase in pageviews of the About CI page
41% increase in pageviews of the Academics page
65% increase in pageviews of the Visit Campus and campus tours pages
69% increase in pageviews of the main Admissions page (Admissions & Costs)
145% increase in pageviews across all Admissions pages
468% increase in pageviews across all tuition and fees pages
1421% increase in pageviews of the Student Life page

...and other significant increases across academic and administrative web sites...

...and a 29% decrease in our bounce rate and a 39% decrease in exit percentage across all primary CI web site properties.

What do all these stats mean? They mean that more people are visiting the CI web site, and people are engaging more deeply with our web content.

If that wasn't enough, our web site was also recognized with 3 awards:

2014 Collegiate Advertising Awards Silver Winner in Website Design
2015 CASE District VII Award of Excellence (Bronze) for Institutional Web Sites (PDF)
30th Annual Education Advertising Awards Merit Award for www.csuci.edu 

Not too bad for a young university in Camarillo CA!

Since we launched, we've continued to make incremental improvements. Some highlights include:

1. Establishing a rapid, rotating refresh cycle for the banner images on the CI home page.
2. Changing the home page banners from static images to clickable images. We'll be keeping track of how this change in functionality increases our visitor interaction.
3. Working closely with our Enrollment Management team to develop and deploy a new consolidated "Calendars" page, which combines events, important dates and deadlines for prospective and incoming students.
4. Integrating new videos to help prospective students, parents and visitors to get to know CI.
5. Migrating all but 3 of our academic program web sites to our new mobile-friendly, responsive web site design, including subsequent re-designs of the Anthropology, Chicana/o Studies, and Nursing web sites.
6. Upgrading our Google Analytics to use Google Tag Manager to help us better manage our web analytics. 

• Migration of our Giving, Extended University and Library web sites to our new mobile-friendly, responsive design
• An updated electronic campus tour and viewbook
• Updates to the Housing and Dining web sites
• Migration of CI-developed web applications that are still using our legacy web framework.

On August 24, 2015 we launched an updated information architecture and new home page design for anthropology.csuci.edu

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On August 19, 2015 we launched an updated information architecture and new home page design for Career Development at CI.

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On August 13, 2015 we launched an updated information architecture and new home page design for Procurement and Logistical Services at CI.

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Today we launched updated banner framework for the CI home page. Now the banner images are clickable and take visitors to stories about CI. To start with, we'll be showing 3 images and stories related to students, student life, and faculty in rotation. We're excited about this change, and we'll be monitoring usage of these new banners carefully to see how they help improve engagement with our web site.

On July 07, 2015, the President's Concert site was launched with a unique homepage design and a concise layout.