Web Council - Nov 15, 2012
- Announcements
- Audio recordings and slide decks for the presentations are available at https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/display/uwweb/November+15th%2C+2012
- No December meeting
- Will send out annual Web Council survey in December to get your suggestions on what the Web Council should do in 2013
- Twitter has switched to their bird logo and is pushing people to start using the bird logo instead of the old T logo. Twitter says you infringe their trademark if you use something other than the new official bird logo.
- iSchool Site Redesign - Nick West and Lisa Gettings
- http://ischool.uw.edu/
- Built new site on Drupal 7
- Developed their own responsive theme
- Draws on UW services such as UW Groups Web Service
- Resources related to the project
- iSchool website redesign planning documents: http://blogs.uw.edu/iweb/web-redesign-plans-and-resources/
- Blog entry on responsive web design with some great resource links at the bottom: http://blogs.uw.edu/iweb/2012/05/04/responsive-web-design-challenges/
- The usability guidelines measurement tool Lisa used for evaluation the old site and the new site: http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/guidelines.html
- The Smashing Magazine guide to heuristic web reviews: http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/16/guide-heuristic-website-reviews/
- UW Bothell website redesign - Laura Mansfield, Russell Burns and Azadeh Azarian
- http://www.uwb.edu/
- Planning for redesign began in January 2012
- Objectives
- Align with the greater UW brand
- Transition from recruiting site to one that promotes excellence
- More interactive features; video, social media integration
- Process
- Planning, where do we want to go
- Met with many groups to find out what people want
- Old site
- Text heavy, many links
- Developed dropdowns
- Developed color combinations
- Developed multiple page templates
- Testing is key to seamless transition
- Launched in August
- Challenges
- Bothell has grown since old site was created
- 5000 pages
- 250 web editors
- Smaller than UW Seattle, but customer needs are diverse and represent the needs of a full campus
- Web team is small, making it essential that solutions are efficent
- CMS
- Using Kentico CMS - http://www.kentico.com/
- ASP.net product
- Have been running Kentico since 2009
- Has been able to handle continuous growth of size and requirements
- Robust templating infrastructure
- Wide variety of Web parts for adding functionality
- Efficent use of one template
- Inject variation or customization into templates to customize pages for specific needs
- Menus, logs, contact information can span one or many templates
- Data is only entered once and templates are not duplicated, which reduces variation and workload
- Using Kentico CMS - http://www.kentico.com/
- Still working on approach for supporting mobile
- Ignite!
- MyPlan - Kamal S. Muthuswamy
- MyPlan is an online academic planner
- Allows students to plan courses across multiple years
- Project of UW-IT Information Management
- Includes course search tool
- Does degree audits
- Funded by students, Student Tech Fee,
- How it is being done
- Powered by Kuali
- Built lots of complex diagrams to figure out how to simplify what students see
- Enable legacy systems through ROA
- Integrated with UW Systems
- Usability
- Focus on value to studentsc
- To guide testing and development, created personas
- Rich User experience
- Lots of user centered design
- Moving into Year 2, more about registration planning,
- Working on mobile version
- Fun == important
- Entry at http://myplan.uw.edu
- Description and help at http://depts.washington.edu/myplan/help-site/
- MyPlan is an online academic planner
- HuskyBytes - Jacob A. Morris
- Connecting with students where they already are
- Students do not seem to know about our services
- We email students all the time
- Signs you are an old fogey
- watch movies on VCR
- Use email
- Students are on Facebook
- Huskybytes is a Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/huskybytes
- Benefits
- Can be more casual
- Readers do not have to file messages
- Did not do
- ask permission
- cajole a committee
- hold informal working sessions
- generate ideas and solutions
- Did
- put together team
- Wrote up things we wanted
- generated content ideas
- did Daily ads
- promoted at DawgDay
- Next
- need content
- gotta keep updating
- small number of people think up and post content
- Nice
- Lots of data about visits
- if a friend likes something, it shows up on their friends Facebook pages
- potentially reach 100,000 people with a single post
- want to talk about things people care about
- Connecting with students where they already are
- Content Curation - Peter Wallis
- Challenge: We produced too much content
- Can't keep up with demand and need to keep info up to date
- Information sitting around that we did not have time to put it out there
- Curation is about guiding people to content rather than providing content
- Currently working on LST online curriculum
- Connect to pre-existing publicly available content
- Let other people do the work for us
- Currently working on LST online curriculum
- What we have done so far
- Completed topics: html, css, office 2010 initially
- Adding much more
- Finding the right resource is the biggest challenge
- Some products do not offer good content we can onnect to
- Need to keep re-evaluating
- Example: http://www.washington.edu/lst/help/web/css-cody/tutorial
- Challenge: We produced too much content
- Online dashboard - Chris Heiland
- External Affairs is using a monitoring tool from https://www.leftronic.com/ to collect and display comparative information about their Web sites
- Many monitoring services are out there, some free, some for fee, some for a fee is you need more than what is free.
- MyPlan - Kamal S. Muthuswamy