Web Team

Web Team

Web Manager's Update - October '07

17 Oct 2007

We've had a busy month with increased web support, preparing for opening of enrolment, planning for 2008, major projects and completing our Change proposal submission.

Change Proposal

  • Web Team is part of the SRDU Change Proposal. Submissions are due noon Friday 19 October. We encourage you to take the opportunity to read the proposal and submit any feedback you have.

CMS Demos on Campus

  • CMS Demos at the end of October - Come and see the short listed CMS vendors and products in formal demos being held at the end of October.

Web survey results

  • Its good to see that our service is hitting the mark with an overall satisfaction rating of 4.34/5. Thanks to those of you who took the time to complete our Web Survey. Full results and the actions resulting from these will be posted soon.

Web support up 30%

Web support is up by around 30% on the year average due to the extra load for the College of Education which used to be done by Traci and Clare when they were part of our team.

Dreamweaver training

Over the pass month we have held 4 courses to catch up on the back log of Dreamweaver training. Next training sessions will be in November.

New Web Stats Software

We have just purchased Urchin (from Google Analytics) and are currently trailing it. It promised rich, interactive stats reports across all websites.

IE 7 for Semester 1 2008

We propose deploying Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) across UC for start of Semester 2008. This software offers a number of improvements over IE 6 such as tabbed browsing and will work better with some of the web applications staff use frequently. We are commencing consultation and testing.

Web developments

Completed

Working on

  • New Courses, Subjects and Qualifications homepage layout
  • Rebrand Canterprise web site
  • SOFA gallery for school of Fine Arts
  • Akaroa Arts Festival

Web Systems

  • Directory Search upgraded to add Position Title

  • CIS updates:

    • to handle Courses Occurrence Groups (COG)
    • show 2009 courses for cross year enrolment
    • more consistent handle of summer school courses
  • Coming up:
    • auto "tick" of the "available for web" check box to show all course information on the web site (Tuesday 23rd Oct at 9am)
    • Change the default search and display year for courses on the web to 2008 in mid November.

Staffing

  • Web Project Manager shortlisted and we expect to make an offer later this week.
  • Traci Stanbury, Clare Burgess and Sue Holstein are now working in other parts of the University having finished their time with us on specific project tasks.

Major Projects Update

  • Content Management System - Requirements signed off, RFP at stage of final approval, vendors and systems shortlisted.
  • Qualifications Publisher - Business Requirements sent to reference group, Design of new system and web site underway.
  • People Publishing System - on hold with data fix for position title
  • Online Maps - on hold with technical challenge to improve download speed.
  • CCE Merger Web Integration - project closed.

Coming Up in the Next Month

  • Web CMS Demos - your chance to have a say in selecting our new Web CMS.
  • Web Administrator Forum early november - date TBA
  • Catching up on our backlog of work - including upgrades to the style guide from the last Web Administrator's forum.
  • Web Strategy discussion document
  • Selecting the CMS!
  • Publish web survey results and actions

 

Ken Beatson, Web Manager