My academic home page (http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jel292/) is looking outdated. I need something new and a little more professional. Do you know anybody who designs websites for academics? Could you recommend anyone? An example of their work would be helpful.
Meanwhile here’s The Bad Plus playing with Bill Frisell at Newport. Amazing stuff.
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January 18, 2013 at 6:08 am
Joshua Gans
I recently used wordpress to redesign mine: research.joshuagans.com
January 18, 2013 at 8:22 am
jamesoswald
Take a page out of Xavier Sala-i- Martin’s book! That guy knows how to build an academic web page.
January 18, 2013 at 8:39 am
Bruno Salcedo
I don’t professionally design academic websites,
but I did spend some time learning CSS and HTML to design my own:
brunosalcedo.com
I also designed the website for a local student conference:
personal.psu.edu/bxs5142/PERC/PERC.shtml
The designs are very simple so that you could easily edit the contents in the future.
If you think that they are up to standard I would be happy to help.
January 18, 2013 at 8:55 am
Bruno Salcedo
I tried to keep the design as simple as possible but I could definetily do more compliated things. I’m particularly proud that the sites are responsive to the characteristics of the browser/devise: they are phone-friendly.
January 19, 2013 at 9:52 pm
jeff
bruno thanks, i do like your site, you did a great job. but i think i am looking for something a little more sophisticated. chris blattman’s web site would be a model. chrisblattman.com
January 18, 2013 at 10:49 am
Enrique
I like your website — no bells or whistles — because your work is easy to access and is presented in a well-organized manner — but if you are going to “sex” it up, so to speak, I would recommend looking at Ariel Rubinstein’s website — very cool
January 18, 2013 at 9:01 pm
Donald A. Coffin
Has that Bad Plus + Bill Frissell set been released commercially yet? And, if not, why not?
January 19, 2013 at 1:10 am
Lones Smith
No economists have decent web sites, so you’re good. But if you go the Ariel route, you need first to identify which outrageous journal rejection letter will be your frontispiece.
January 19, 2013 at 10:02 am
Annalyn
Hi, Would you kind enough to give a break to a new talent? I’ve been designing for web for 8 years now as a hobby but it just recently that I decided to do it professionally. I am currently working on a multi purpose website prototype built in HTML5 and Twitter Bootstrap and I can convert it to anything you like to use. I am doing Responsive Design too and just recently finished a Free WordPress Theme as a personal project. Please take a look at my site annalyn.info.
Thanks and I hope to hear from you 🙂
January 19, 2013 at 9:53 pm
jeff
hi annalyn, thanks for replying. your work looks very high quality but i think my taste is a little different than yours.
January 20, 2013 at 9:54 am
Annalyn
Hello Jeff, thank your for your reply. I checked Chris Blattman’s site and I believe that I can customize a WordPress theme with the same quality and most of all a site that you will surely like and use as an academician. I have prepared a questionnaire for my clients to understand the project more and what the clients wants and needs for their website. I’m optimistic I can do that. 🙂
January 19, 2013 at 10:03 am
Annalyn
Or we can work together to build your site from scratch of course. 🙂
January 19, 2013 at 12:50 pm
Vinay
Interested. Sent you a mail…
January 20, 2013 at 12:38 am
Saneesh S Sanal
I don’t have an online portfolio, I recently designed a website from scratch for a medical academy, if you would like to see my work please contact me on my email id. I definitely think I can do what you are looking for !!
Cheers,
Sani
January 20, 2013 at 1:41 am
Saneesh S Sanal
oopsy !! I forgot to put the link to my work here we go ==> http://communitymedicinetvm.org/
PS:- Work in progress so don’t mind the small glitches 🙂
Cheers,
Sani
January 22, 2013 at 6:20 am
Greg Taylor
Jeff, I made my own site using a WYSYWIG editor (Dreamweaver), which wasn’t that hard. I know that learning to do this is something you probably don’t have time for, but the problem I see with having someone build a site for you is that you either (i) will be dependent on them to update it, (ii) will have to learn HTML/CSS anyway so you can update it yourself, or (iii) will end up breaking the design by trying to update it without learning how.
If you really don’t want to go that route then I would recommend a solution along the lines suggested by Joshua Gans: go with WordPress or another platform that handles most of design work and enforces design consistency.
January 24, 2013 at 4:55 am
rondeperez
It looks good to me, the simpler the better. Less is more as they say.
January 25, 2013 at 12:02 am
Martin
My opinion is that your design is great and easy to navigate and also i like color you used.
January 26, 2013 at 8:56 am
Boutell
Hi Jeff i like your website simple but have a good features .
January 30, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Anonymous
Try this: http://openscholar.harvard.edu/
February 2, 2013 at 3:29 am
Brad
Your website is cool Jeff maybe you can add some additional features.
April 30, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Aaron
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