Information should be easier to find on the newly designed ISU Web site.The Web site, www.iastate.edu, recently added an alphabetic site index and several news briefs on the home page, said Diana Pounds, community manager for University Relations. The news briefs will give readers a quick look at some of the events and activities going on at Iowa State, she said.The goal was make the site, updated Jan. 15, more user-friendly and provide more news, she said. “We believe this index will help Web surfers find their way around the site better,” Pounds said. “The ISU Web site has gotten very large, and it can be time-consuming to find a page by clicking from page to page. The alphabetic index should provide a faster route to whatever you’re seeking.”Another goal of the new site was to make it more accessible. The sizes of fonts on the old site were not adjustable, but Pounds said the new site’s text fonts can be enlarged to aid visually impaired users.The new Web site is the result of collaboration between University Relations and University Marketing, Pounds said. The university has been working on the new site for about 10 months.”I was initially shocked,” said Marcus Marine, junior in agronomy. “At first, it was kind of hard to find stuff.” He said he likes the new site more because it is “better in that the links are condensed.”The whole ISU community was invited to comment on the new site design a few months ago, Pounds said. “Comments on the new site were overwhelmingly positive,” she said. Though the basic design remained the same, Pounds said, “we did some retooling” as a result of suggestions and complaints from nearly 200 testers. “If you can’t find something on the [new site], that’s especially important to us,” she said. “Let us know what [you] were looking for and how you tried to find it.”