By Sara Eisenhauer
Cardinal Staff
Monta May
Monta May, the director of web communication in the Communication and Marketing Office at Saint Mary’s University, has spent the last several months redesigning the SMU website to make information easier to obtain.
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May graduated from SMU in 2004 with her second undergraduate degree in graphic design and multimedia, then quickly began work as an assistant to the director for the SMU graduate program. In 2005, she assumed her current position maintaining the SMU website. When she is not busy building the new site, May comes up with new features for the current website and material that people will be interested in.
To keep the website fresh with new ideas and solve problems that may arise, May has to use her creativity and logic.
“I like figuring out how to do things that don’t have an obvious answer,” said May. “I like problem solving.”
May’s job challenges her to find new ways to reach people who need to utilize the information on the website. The current website design has been running for about three years, according to May. She believes the redesign is a necessary step for the university.
“I’m hoping that it will make information more easily obtained,” said May.
Students will also be able to locate the information they need in one central location. This will hopefully speed up the search process for students looking for the tools they need.
May projects that the new site should be live by the beginning of the second semester.
Adrianne Olson
Building a website is not a one-person job. Website editor Adrianne Olson assists May with the redesign of the site by adding new content to the site. Olson, who joined the staff in February of this year, is in charge of maintaining the undergraduate content on the current website, but she has also been recruited to help with the new site.
In addition to her website duties, Olson set up and maintains the SMU Facebook page for the Communication and Marketing office. Olson said the university wanted a central location for SMU’s presence on Facebook to be located. Students can use the page to access information and happenings at the university.
Olson works closely with other staff to make sure the website is current and any necessary changes are made when they come up. She said something is always changing, and she has to be ready for whatever is thrown her way.
“There’s always something new everyday,” said Olson. “It’s exciting to come into the office and not know where the job is going to take you.”
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