His name’s James. It’s right there, on his T-shirt.

James Lagek, a 20-year-old WSU junior majoring in business and economics, is the founder and sole contributor of Imjames.net, a website that aggregates links for practically every event associated with the university. He’s also fond of his custom-made shirts which proudly display the words “I’m James.”

“I just created a unique, appealing site,” he said of the project, which has been online since March 3 of this year.

The site, titled “Finally Wazzu,” provides a consolidated source of information on events coordinated by each of the colleges, fraternities and sororities, the Center for Civic Engagement, Residence Life, Athletics, the Student Entertainment Board, and numerous registered student organizations.

“There’s basically anything from the university you can think of on there,” said Zachary Brown, a junior sociology and communication major who helps promote the site through flyers and other marketing strategies.

Brown said the goal of the website is to make finding information easier for students.

“The Zzusis or any of the WSU websites are really convoluted and hard to navigate, and when you’re on there, you’re basically on there to check out your course schedule,” Brown said. “And this is really integrated and really easy to navigate.”

Lagek said he spends a few hours every day pulling event information from WSU-affiliated websites, including Facebook pages.

“With Facebook now, there’s so many advertisements that you miss everything,” he said. “The way it works now you only see certain information and not everything.”

Lagek said he likes to feature events that involve students from various communities, including Greek philanthropy efforts and schedules for sporting events.

“I wanted to put a sports section in there too to increase attendance because this season for basketball nobody went to games,” he said, noting that the site provides information on each of the WSU sports teams, not only football.

The site is categorized by the locations of events as well as which organizations host them.

Lagek said he decided after creating the site to ask university administrators whether he was in violation of any copyrights.

“I talked to them and they were pretty impressed,” he said, adding that he welcomes the university to purchase the domain. “I talked with lots of university people, and they said that all of the departments have their own IT, so it’s pretty decentralized, and they’re working on centralizing it.”

Lagek said he enjoys shining a spotlight on Cougs who have their own YouTube channels, study abroad blogs or surveys in need of responses by fellow students.

“If the university comes up with a better website it will just be social networking, and if it doesn’t we’ll just have events and be a Coug spotlight kind of thing,” he said. “I think its entertainment. It’s just for fun.”

But Brown said the website surpasses entertainment purposes.

“There’s no school website that’s solely for getting information out to students,” Brown said. “Zzusis tries to have this little box in the middle on their stuff, yet no one reads it. They’re on there for academic reasons only.”

A few of Lagek’s professors shared their advice for developing and improving the site.

“At first I suppose I thought he was a little over-ambitious,” said Ryan Bain, a teaching assistant in the School of Economic Sciences. “But the site looks really polished, so I’m impressed so far.”

Bain said the technical aspects of running such a site include being prepared for heavy traffic and understanding any rules that could result in extra charges from the web host.

“I told him to make sure to know the specifics of his hosting site,” Bain said. “It’s good just to get the fundamental costs associated with funding the site at the top of his mind.”

Bain also provided ideas for expanding the site beyond the Pullman campus. Lagek already gathers some information from the WSU Spokane, but he said he would like to include information from Tri-Cities and Vancouver as well as other universities in the state.

“That just seems like the next logical place he could go,” Bain said. “It’s just a matter of his imagination and his ambition.”

Bain said Lagek does a great job of promoting his product and has the popularity on campus to generate visitors for the site.

“He’s got the marketing savvy that everybody knows him for,” Bain said.