WSU Homepage

Homepage Banner

The weber.edu homepage features a large showcase banner image to highlight strategic, university-wide messages. These images and messages are created and managed by Marketing & Communications, which uses one image per banner, with limited exceptions. We do not put text over a banner image.

We do not use this space to highlight events, with extremely limited exceptions. If you have an event you want featured on the homepage, our Featured Events section is a better fit. 

Examples of messaging we currently highlight with the banner include: 

  • Registration
  • The Dream Weber scholarship program
  • Financial aid and FAFSA assistance

Featured Events

Marketing & Communications staff members select events that have been submitted to the WSU master calendar to fill this section of the homepage. To see who in your college/division can submit calendar items, or to become an authorized user, learn more about the master calendar. 

Calendar items will be selected for promotion on the homepage based on the following criteria:

  1. The event is appropriate for a broad audience. Preferably, it would be open to WSU students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members. Events for solely WSU students are acceptable, but they should be pertinent to all or the vast majority of students.
  2. The calendar submission has appropriate accompanying artwork (in content, size and quality) to be featured on the homepage. Art must be 300 pixels wide x 200 pixels high at 150 resolution. If text is included it should be centered and not reach the edge of the image.
  3. The calendar submission has all pertinent information included and links to a URL with complete information.
  4. Selected events showcase a broad range of interests and subjects.

Calendar items will be copied onto the homepage calendar and may be edited by Marketing & Communications for clarity.

2025 Homepage Redesign

After more than a decade without major changes to the look of the weber.edu homepage, Marketing & Communications partnered with IT to undertake a redesign project. This included changes to the very top and bottom sections that are consistent throughout our website's subpages (the header and footer), to bring the look and feel of the new design through the entire website. 

The functionality of the homepage remains unchanged; it retained many of the same menu options and features a rotating photo banner toward the top which is used to highlight strategic, university-wide messaging. It also features a calendar of events, section of badges touting our awards and accomplishments, and area for press releases from our Public Relations office.

Timeline

October – November 2024: Marketing & Communications workshops design file
December 2024 – January 2025: Design & web collaboration group see design file, provide feedback
February – March 2025: User testing
April – May 2025: Collaborate with IT on building process, one-on-one meetings with interested stakeholders
June 2025: Web developers begin building front and back end, continued one-on-one meetings with stakeholders
October 2025: Soft launch, with new homepage design linked from the live homepage with feedback gathered via a Google Form
November 2025: Further design tweaks and testing on accompanying sitewide header, footer and navigation menu
December 2025: New homepage and accompanying sitewide header/footer and navigation menu is launched