Revelle College Website Refresh Project

Talk given by Nancy Daly

Transcript

2. • The existing site • Proposal for change • Create the process • Content gathering, review, and selection
3.  Two websites bunched together  No one managing content ◦ Nothing unpublished, nothing deleted ◦ _files and _images from circa 1990 ◦ Disorganized directory ◦ No correlation among _files, _images, folders, sub-files…
4.  Senior Staff and Colleges’ IT Director ◦ A look at best practices  Other Colleges, Departments  Analytics ◦ Stakeholders  Site Refresh Project ◦ Who’s on the team? ◦ Include experts ◦ Develop consistency ◦ Publishing rights ◦ Web team meetings
5.  Refresh the Revelle College website  Make it exciting, content-rich, easily navigated, and informational  for Revelle students, parents, faculty, and staff.
6.  Prospective Students  Current Students  Parents  Revelle Staff  Faculty & UCSD Personnel  The General Public
7. The Web Team Begins!  Start a timeline  Get expert advice  Site outline  Template selections  Define: ◦ What are audience needs ◦ What drives people to a website ◦ We want people to find what the need on our site  Develop a site that’s ◦ Easy to navigate ◦ Easily taught to successors ◦ Organized and consistent
8. The Project Structure The Outline The Templates The Content Work with the Experts
9.  Website manager/publisher ◦ Also manage content for five sections  4 area content coordinators  Publishing restrictions  Hold regular web team meetings  Define goals ◦ Needs of the audience ◦ Accomplishments to achieve  Decide and GO!
10.  Main page ◦ Tabs ◦ Left navigation  Each tab ◦ Best naming: what we want, what we can’t have ◦ Best content ◦ Organize content/directory  CWO templates- most versatile, effective ◦ Front page options ◦ 2 column pages ◦ Drawer pages
11.  Pages  _files and _images  Resources pages  Links  Consistency  Use block content  Use home page internals sparingly  Stay organized  Do not waiver on tough decisions
12.  Involve internal stakeholders  Set a mission – keep it visible  Hold regular meetings  Work with the experts  Use logic in structure; organize well  Simple pictures are best  Unpublish and delete  Two brains are better than one  It’s all in the pre-work  Above all, enjoy the process