Current Hot Topics

Redesign of the web

• Overall framework of the campus web presence
  • Internet: does it attract and retain visitors
  • Intranet: is needed information there, easy to find
• Connections/integration with new administrative systems
• Home page issues:
  • "Fresh" news on the homepage (see Denison's new page: www.denison.edu
  • "New this Week" link

Web server management issues

• Can we host related and unrelated domains?

  rurallife.org
  ohiofolkarts.org
  student-organization.com
  staff-organization.com
  

• Outsourcing of "mission critical" pages

  • Homepage, admissions, visitors' center, more?

Training, consulting, monitoring content and R&D

For example:

• who develops web replacements for other online tools such as:
• Problem reporting
• Workorder
• Online interlibrary loan forms
• Textbook orders
• AV requests
• Surveys

• who ensures that campus information providers run spell checking on their pages
• how does an information provider learn how to make interactive forms
• who is watching "the big picture" for a well-coordinated presentation to the public
• who stays abreast of new web technologies that we could use, or that could affect our web presence

Content management

• campus standards for "look and feel" and appropriate content?
• who maintains quality of webbed information
• unchanging public pages = not competitive, poor marketing
• content management tools: support? standards?

Institutional policies

• process to develop and approve
• who enforces policies
• who monitors for technical, design or information errors
• who arbitrates access conflicts
• student computers as web, ftp servers (rights, responsibilities, disclaimer)
• support and standards for departmental web servers

Many of these hot topics are related to resource allocations and staffing issues.