Ottawa University needed both a consistent online identity to unite geographically diverse campuses and the ability for administrators from different departments to keep the site fresh --inexpensively and without learning HTML.

Thus the design of the OU site focuses on real people and community and uses mostly inexpensive snapshot-style photography. A variety of rotating images, an automated 'what's new' area called The Commons and an easy-to-use online form-based content management system keep the site feeling freshly updated.

Developed in 2000 for Lucent and Computer Instruments by Rhondda Francis.