Comments on: Poor Design: Oberlin College

By: Laura Godfrey

Laura Godfrey — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:46:11 +0000

My first impression of this website is that it does not appeal to it’s target audience. The overall layout and navigation are very misleading and do not direct you to the relevant pages. For a website trying to advertise it’s courses and ’student life’, it fails miserably.

As the university is well known for it’s live bands as a star attraction, they should try and make this a key feature of their website.

By: web design london

web design london — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:23:43 +0000

It’s a real shame when Universities fail to attend to their web presence.
These days a competant web design is paramount to the success of an organisation yet still many companies fail to manage their website properly.

By: bitguru

bitguru — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:00 +0000

These shows make the school money, one would think they’d want to advertise.

They may make a profit on the shows, but that is not their goal. The purpose is to enhance student (and faculty) life at the school, hence the subsidized ticket prices for students. The shows are generally open to the public, but they don’t advertise off-campus because they regularly sell out. (I haven’t seen a show at Oberlin for a couple decades, so my information may be out of date. I doubt it, though.)

I don’t know if this is still the case, but they guy responsible for booking the shows used to be very good at finding up-and-coming talent. I remember the booked Phish before they hit it big, but I decided not to go because it was billed it as a ‘punk’ show for some reason. My loss.

By: adi

adi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:41:59 +0000

By: beth

beth — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:33:30 +0000

You can’t get that phone number from their site. In fact, I had to do about a zillion searches to even find the Student Union page.

By: ALisoN

ALisoN — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:17:40 +0000

oberlin kids are so spoiled. they get to see cat power tonight, they saw the author of persepolis last night, and they get jewish holidays off. fuck them. also, the only time i ever saw cat power and she was good was when she played at harkness a dorm in oberlin. i don’t think i am going. also call wilder hall and just ask. they usually know at the front desk what’s going on there.