McGill Asian Religions Area Website

As a long-time student, and sometimes loafer, in McGill’s Faculty of Religious Studies, it was a real pleasure and honour to work on the website of its Asian Religions Area, home to some of my most admired professors.

At first I was not going to touch the actual graphic design. I spent the majority of my time tracking down updated information, and reorienting the information design to fit with the site’s revamped purpose. I also recoded the site so that it is now much more legible, both to search engines and to anyone who needs to update the site in the future.

When, for a final touch, I was asked to make the design more graphical, the update was as easy as pie. I’ve always understood that content and presentation need to be kept separate, as per the web standards. But this is the first time I’ve actually taken a well coded site and simply switched stylesheets for a completely different experience. So exciting!

I hope that the new design succeeds in representing both East and South Asian religions, without favouring either, and also without resorting to oriental cliches. The colour scheme, and the choice of images and motifs is designed with this in mind.