Welcome to the new Duke.edu.

Duke’s newly redesigned web site, which launched in March 2006, is the result of considerable research, design and development. We hope it will be an effective resource for the Duke community and the university’s many external audiences.

The redesigned site seeks to achieve multiple goals. First, it aims in its design and content to present a focused portrayal of Duke’s excellence, diversity and dynamism. It also seeks to streamline and simplify navigation throughout Duke’s top-level sites. For example, the new homepage features an updated “Search” function and simplified subpages that make it easier to find people, offices and sites.

An important component of the new web strategy is to improve internal communications within the Duke community. Duke Today is the focus of this effort, presenting news, features, events and "news you can use" about what’s going on at Duke. Users can customize parts of Duke Today, choosing their own links and news feeds on subjects of interest. Since the new homepage is intended mainly for external audiences, we encourage members of the Duke community to use Duke Today as their main information resource – visiting it daily and perhaps designating it as their browser home page.

Duke’s Office of News and Communications developed the new sites in cooperation with many others across the university. The sites were designed and built by White Whale Web Services in collaboration with Duke News and many others in the Duke community. Content for Duke.edu is managed using Cascade Server, which was customized for our use by Hannon Hill Corp. To learn more about the development and design process, please visit our redesign blog. For technical information about the sites, see our technical specs.

The Duke Homepage Team
Duke University Office of News and Communications
March 2006