As you visit tntoday.utk.edu, you will notice major changes.
We launched the redesign of Tennessee Today this morning. Highlights of this redesign include providing an outstanding mobile experience, spotlighting news from our colleges, providing an easy way to sign up for and view past issues of our daily e-newsletter, providing story-to-story navigation and more efficient ways to browse stories of a similar topic, and drawing attention to ongoing campus news.
The redesigned home page still showcases a top headline, but we gave ourselves the opportunity to also feature four secondary top headlines. You can find all the latest stories we publish in the “Latest News” section and search our entire news site.
The home page also features a section with news from our colleges. We recognize that great research, outreach, and philanthropic activity comes from our academic units and the importance of highlighting their efforts is a priority in this redesign. In the website’s footer we also showcase other campus publications and link to pages dedicated to each college’s news stories. We hope that providing direct access to news from around campus will help promote and publicize the great things happening at UT.
In case you miss the daily Tennessee Today e-newsletter, we now provide a way to view past issues of the e-newsletter. On the home page, scroll halfway down the page and look for the heading “Our Newsletter.” From here, use the archives drop down to navigate to previous issues.
The new “News Around Our Campus” section allows us to pull forward stories about ongoing campus topics such as construction, welcome week, faculty appreciation week, and more. We hope this section will help our campus community stay abreast of longterm news.
On individual story pages, you can now navigate to more stories about similar topics, as well as our top headlines and the latest stories we’re publishing.
In the past year, 30 percent of traffic on the Tennessee Today website has been from mobile phone and tablets. The redesign of Tennessee Today leverages responsive web design to provide the best possible experience to our users whether they are viewing our website on their phone, tablet, or desktop computer. Responsive web design means designing a website that is optimized for use on a mobile phone, a tablet, a laptop, a desktop, and even a widescreen television. In alignment with our optimized mobile experience goal, our next step is to use a responsive design approach to revamp the daily Tennessee Today e-newsletter.
We hope you take time to get to know your campus news source and please send any feedback to webteam@utk.edu.