- UW Home Page report by Gina Hills
- Redesign is looking good; unfortunately not yet available for general viewing
- Mockups are currently in usability testing, which should be finished in January
- Next step is to move the design into Plone.
- Christmas videos
- We viewed and discussed the UW's Season's Greetings video
- Located at http://www.washington.edu/president/holiday/
- Have had some feedback that it felt a little impersonal
- Viewed other holiday season videos
- WSU President's greetings: http://president.wsu.edu/ecard/2009/
- WSU future students greetings: http://futurestudents.wsu.edu/ecard/2008/
- Also had a look at some higher education videos that are getting a lot of YouTube visits
- Appalachian State University (HOT, HOT,HOT) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg
- We viewed and discussed the UW's Season's Greetings video
- Doing slide shows on your Web site, people are experimenting with various tools
- Carousel control from Yahoo; Engineering is trying it
- YUI Carousel http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/carousel/
- Lightbox, which uses jQuery and is available as a Drupal modul
- Views Slideshow; Drupal module
- Slideshow Pro
- [NOTE: This post has been corrected to clarify that this is the Marketing photo database, not Media Relations] UW Marketing, working with Foster School of Business, hopes to move its photo collection to Spitfire (from Flickr)
- Galleries are now at http://depts.washington.edu/mediarel/galleries/
- http://spitfirephoto.com
- Carousel control from Yahoo; Engineering is trying it
- Campus maps work continues
- Many sites link to old maps, such as classroom locations
- Shifting over to new campus map system will take a lot of work
- Business School is now running multiple blogs as part of their outreach
- Main Business School site (http://www.foster.washington.edu/) is on Sharepoint
- Sharepoint has some blog capabilities, but they proved to be limited and not very flexible
- New blogs are being set up on depts.washington.edu server with WordPress software
- Foster Unplugged, general blog for school; http://depts.washington.edu/foster/
- Inside the Foster MBA, blog for MBA program; http://depts.washington.edu/mbablog/
- Undergrads Go Global, blog for study abroad; http://depts.washington.edu/goabroad/
- Each blog has one staff person to oversee it, multiple contributors, including selected students
- Main Business School site (http://www.foster.washington.edu/) is on Sharepoint
- m.UW is subject of Apple article and video
- The UW m.UW project was profiled in the Apple "iPhone in Business" site
- http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/profiles/university-washington/
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