The McGill website is being revamped. The university’s website redesign team is gathering feedback in a survey to ensure the new changes are beneficial to the large number of visitors who access the site daily.  

McGill’s team of web editors is redesigning of all the pages that are linked to the homepage and creating a new template.

“We need to make the homepage match with the new design and we need to make it more responsive to people’s needs, basically, and [make it] more usable and modern,” said Susan Murley, director of communication services at McGill’s Office of Public Affairs, and part of the website redesign team. “We need to try to get people what it is that they’re looking for.”

Currently, the team’s focus is on gathering feedback to learn what is being proposed, and what kind of work would be necessary to implement the proposed changes. Murley said the university is looking to implement these changes by the end of the summer.

The McGill website receives a significant amount of traffic on a daily basis, internally from students, faculty, and staff, and externally from alumni, prospective students, and journalists. The site, therefore, cannot afford to be down.

“The biggest challenge with the homepage is that we have so many different types of people that use it,” Murley said. “Each of those groups have different things they’re looking for, so trying to get a homepage that works for all of those groups, that helps them find what they’re looking for, without it being very clustered, is difficult.”