If you happen to stumble on a university websites, you are normally will not get impressed by its design and layout. With a lot of professional people dwelt in the universities, it has been a tradition to have a lot of information to be found to a certain university website.
And if you work as a freelance designer for a university website, you will for sure face a lot of revision of your design until you will come up with a very nasty and disturbing layout caused by abiding to those numerous suggestions and revisions.
Below is an excerpt of the post from Design Shack that focused on the difficulties and problem when designing a university website.
Universities represent some of the highest concentrations of talented and intelligent individuals anywhere on the planet. These are institutions built around people literally engaging in lifelong education. They create amazing inventions, cure diseases, and move civilization forward in countless ways. So why can’t they bust out a decent web design?
I have a little bit of insight into how major universities go about creating websites, and in my experience the major problem is the same that leads to most poor corporate design: Design by Committee. Two heads may be better than one, but ten to twenty heads gets you an ugly website.
As aesthetic decisions become subject to bureaucracy, inner-office politics and groupthink, the quality of the finished product decreases exponentially. I guarantee you that if you let a single talented web design student take a stab at redesigning his university homepage, he/she could easily come up with something more attractive and more effective than the building full of people the university pays to oversee the site.
Each country, culture and university has their own style and preferences of how their website looks like. Today, we will have a look on some of the best designed university website in the Middle East, and notice how they love scrolling text.