Loyola’s Fancy New Digs on the Internet

Loyola has launched a beautiful redesign of their site that promises to be memorable to a very internet savvy pool of prospective and current students.

Referred to me by my buddy Anthony, the new Loyola website is a great example of design that can seriously shape and change perceptions of a place. The new site features beautiful photography, great code to match and a tasteful use of Archer (which I quite fancy in case you couldn’t tell). Take a look:

The large and open photographic background carries a few clicks into the site where it changes to a more traditional layout that is nice on it’s own.

I’m quite a fan of MICA’s redesign complete by Happy Cog recently. The homepage looks great:

And the interior pages feature some great web type.

Loyola and MICA join a growing list of colleges and universities who are beginnig to realize the importance of the design of their site to incoming students, alumni, and the competition. The entire student body uses the web along with every prospective student and so colleges and universities are finding it more and more important to put their best foot forward.

Sites like Edustyle seek to promote those sites with the best designs and serves to further the trend of beautiful .edu site designs.

What’s the best designed .edu?

Do you have a favorite .edu site for it’s design? What are some other schools with great sites? Do you wish your school had a better site? Would something like web design sway your opinion of a school? Answer in the comments.