CS Web Site Desing and Organization

Brief History

Nevill Manning
Charles McGrew

Netscape Composer
Raw HTML
perl build scripts
or perl cgis

System information on system machines except Faculty System information in ~watrous.
Resources with no system on www.cs
Please had it apps, but expanded to include more. 


Problems

Can not find information?
	Hard to find
	Does not exist
	Exists 
Inconsistent data, different pages gave different answers to the same questions

Too many places to look, didn't know where to start.  Search resulted in not finding data or finding too much irrelvant data.

Too many pages out of date.

Formating, look and feel inconsistant.

too many different editors use, dreamweaver, composer, raw html, etc...



Goals...

Find Data Easily
Consistent Data
Keep Current Updated Data
Common Interfaces for mantaining
Common Structures, Navigations
Expose and Advertise Resources and Services

Who are we supporting on the www.cs site
	Visitors
	Prospective/New Students/Faculty,Staff
	Guests (Faculty or Staff Sponsored guests)
	Faculty (Full and Part Time)
	Staff (Admin and Tech)
	Students (Undergrad, Graduate)

Order by 
	1) new commers 
	2) most accessed
	3) the reset


Pages need to have ...
expiration dates
responsible person by title/position/group or name
email ?

Site broken up into www.cs and www.lcsr -> www.cs/lcsr/
www.dcis -> ?

LCSR Pages are for Technical Staff, Technical Documents and LCSR audience.
CS Pages for everything but the LCSR pages.

Global Navigational Top menu was choosen

color/fonts for immediate answers.

all pages should be resolved by url under www.cs

Service Oriented to Group Oriented




Counters
Spell Checkers
Broken Links
Site Map



Navigation

Menus
Cntrl-F Find
Search
SiteMap

Yes BookMarks

Public pages should have only one contact help@cs
announcements
faq

TOC / admin interface

Month September 15th.  

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