Florida Atlantic University Charting a new course for a south-Florida university website

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is based in Boca Raton, serving 30,000+ students through its 10 colleges and multiple campuses in southeast Florida. The school’s current website was fragmented, lacked responsiveness needed for today’s mobile-centric society, and didn’t fit the needs of its core audience: digital native millennials. Students and faculty alike struggled to find essential information and navigate through the site; leading to underperforming recruitment and user retention. Most of all, it needed to communicate in FAU’s voice and showcase its impressive research, teaching, and service credentials.

The leadership team at FAU challenged Starmark to develop a brand new website to address its concerns. Rising to the task, Starmark not only developed a new website that brought FAU’s brand voice to life and showcased its impressive accreditation, they matched its core audience preferences; improved the user experience with a major emphasis on stronger recruiting and retention functionality.

Among the updates are the fully responsive website with a clean and modern design directing visitors through pages in a faster, more organized way; compelling photography with dynamic, youthful, friendly and engaging images featured throughout; quick access to content from home page with prominent visibility on cell and tablet screens as well; engaging copy with links and proof points that drive visitors to next steps; and finally persuasive call-to-action messages, lead forms and links more frequently and prominently displayed throughout.