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Just before heading out for vacation I was presented with what seemed to be a simple request: post a shuttle schedule on a website. In an effort to share what I do, and to get this written out so I can switch to vacation mode, I offer a view of how I work through where something should go online.
Justin Klingman, Manager of Web Design and Content Management, Beacon Technologies. “Flash and Data Integration.”
Brent Arrington, Services Developer, Hannon Hill. “Site Migration.”
A question came up about how we link CSS in our templates. An example posted here.
Penny Harding, Services Developer, Hannon Hill. “Best Practices with Sites.”
Ross Williams, Services Trainer, Hannon Hill. “New: Velocity Template Language Enhancements.” Described new features added to Velocity in Cascade Service v. 6.2+
Jon Whitener, Web Communications Specialist, University of Detroit Mercy. “Database Publishing.”
“Smart Cascade Server Implementations” by Justin Klingman, Manager of Web Design & Content Management, Beacon Technologies. Presented in the Executive Track.
David Klanac delivered Bradley Wagner’s talk on the “Cascade Server Roadmap” for the coming year.
“Thankfully the conference was not last week.”
—David Cummings
I copied the backchannel from yesterday’s #smsummit for future reference
HighEdWeb Regional Conference (attendee)
April 23-24, 2009
#hewebcornell
Post in progress. Needed a place to put down thoughts as I go…. I’m setting up ScrumWorks and playing with it to see if it’ll work for our web team. (more…)
Screenshot of tweets from our (private) twitter account to share feedback related to web maintenance.
Posted a simple flowchart of how I run our search. When the user clicks “go” on our search the query is run through a simple script (outlined below.) It checks a simple MySQL table (contains only id, keyword, url. ) If there’s a match, the user is redirected to that page. If there’s no match it sends the query to the Google search page on our site at http://www.vassar.edu/search/.
<head> web conference
October 24-26, 2008 (attendee)
HighEdWeb 2008 (attendee)
October 5-8, 2008. Springfield, MO
Notes from Cascade Server Roadmap
Bradley Wagner, Director of Engineering, Hannon Hill (more…)
Here’s what David Cummings announced at this morning’s opening session (more…)
Cascade Server User’s Conference (attendee)
September 22-23, 2008. Atlanta, GA
#heweb2008
http://www.markgr.com/presentations/eduweb2008/keynote/ for lots of good stuff.
Didn’t bring laptop for this session, so keeping blogging to a minimum today.
edu web conference (attendee)
July 21-23, 2008. Atlantic City, NJ
At the 11th hour we got the go-ahead to launch the new site for:
http://fllac.vassar.edu/
This is just the boost I needed to redeem the week. I can’t describe how huge this is, but it is. It’s down right fantastic.
I plan to ignore work all weekend. If I feel like doing anything work-related I’ll spend that energy on my thesis proposal (less intensive than it sounds.) But I think a better use of my time will be continuing to research the music on my iPod.
Time to come up with some sites to nominate. Or, do we want to nominate any? I just need to set up an account and enter our sites. After May 1 the public gets to nominate sites for awards. I just want to add a bunch in there.
Here’s a starting point:
FLLAC redesign
Homepage redesign?
Art redesign?
Will ERBC be up by April 30?
Could we reduce College Relations to a launchable form by April 30? ie – omit the guide and just have press releases and contact info to start? Redo WordPress theme to new design?
I may actually FINISH SOMETHING today — we’ve been working on a redesign of a site that has been a thorn in my side for 6 years. It’s been “almost done” since November. I *just* sent off the link to the folks who need to give the OK before we can launch this puppy and I can’t contain my excitement (fingers crossed that they don’t come back with 1000 things that need adjustment before we can finish.)
http://fllac.vassar.edu/
I think every email about this site for the past two weeks has the subject “soooooooo close.”
Of course, this is the kind of project I’d *like* to pop champagne for, but the meetings I have from 12-4pm will sweep that away as we move on to other things.
This site had to be done. The office spent so much effort on publicity for the art center — from meeting with publicity folks in NY to develop new press kits, to building relationships with the press, etc. But nothing was done about the website — it was an afterthought. We keep getting articles in the NYTimes, but the site for the art center is old and cranky, and not what you expect. The new site reflects what we want folks to see when they go to the site after hearing about a show on the radio or reading about it in the NYTimes.
There’s this idea around here of publicizing Poughkeepsie, mentioning shows and performances as a day-trip from the city. Well, if I live in NY and want to visit something upstate, and the website looks like our art center’s did, I wouldn’t go out of my way to check it out. And if I saw the site after reading a glowing write-up in the NYTimes I’d be disappointed (and wonder what the NYTimes doing covering this place.) Now we can back up the work others have been doing to publicize this place.
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