psgaonline.org has unfortunately ceased to exist as an independent website. However, glimpses of it may be found at webarchive.org.
The new psgaonline.org was a response to an earlier version of the website that had too many extraneous links and lacked a clear focus. We wanted the website to be minimalist, avoid all feature creep — or things that were simply there to take up space.
Our website, built on Wordpress, highlighted who was in the student government, what the PSGA did, and where and when events were happening.
A major feature of the website was its inclusion of event calendars and a collapsible jQuery directory for all clubs, organizations and services (not shown here). For previous incarnations of the website, the list of our programs had been accomplished with a table that required sometimes up to a few minutes of scrolling. We made it so, by clicking on a category of club or service, you could pinpoint which clubs you were interested in, and then clicking again you could get a read out on who to contact, where the club met, and what the club did.
Our website was inspired in part by the Hamilton College website, of which another executive on our Board was familiar, and by similar web efforts made by WhiteHouse.gov. This manifested itself in how our website, for the first time in student government history, issued press releases and blog posts detailing student government activities. It placed control of the conversation directly into our court.
