Tiger e-greetings, a subscription to LSU Wire and LSU-themed wallpaper are all part of the newly designed lsu.edu homepage.
The site, launched Tuesday, features two new links in the top right corner of the page.
Lori Kemp, University Relations Web manager, said the two new features – LSU Wire subscription and e-greeting cards – hopefully will be fun and exciting for Tiger fans.
Kemp said the main reason for the newly designed homepage was to make room for the two new features the site is debuting.
LSU Wire subscription allows students to receive weekly e-mail reports on news stories pertaining to the University, Kemp said.
The e-mail will send headline links to all the week’s stories, giving students the opportunity to read only the stories they want, Kemp said.
Ben Davis, a political science and history senior, said the news subscription service is good, but he would rather stick to newspapers for his source of information.
LSU E-greetings give people the opportunity to send one of 17 LSU images along with customized text to friends and family, Kemp said.
Kemp said so far 550 e-greetings have been sent and 200 people have subscribed to the LSU Wire.
Gabrielle Edwards, a sociology and criminology junior, said e-greetings are a good idea, and she may decide to use it instead of Yahoo greetings, which she currently uses.
Edwards said the news subscription service also is good because it will allow students the chance to keep up with news events on campus more easily.
Along with the two new link features, Kemp said another major change has been the new monitor resolution on the site.
Kemp said the old homepage displayed a lot of white space on the right side of the screen.
To alleviate the problem, the resolution on the page was increased, Kemp said.
Along with the elimination of white space, Kemp said the updated home page features a few prominent links closer to the top of the page.
“We had a lot of premiere real estate on the page that we were not taking advantage of,” Kemp said.
The “apply on-line” link and the “campus safety and health resources” link were moved to the top of the page to prevent people from having to scroll down to view them.
Kemp said an entire overhaul of the 3-year-old University Web site may occur in the upcoming year to change the look of the site.