1996-06-19: New home page, search, and statistics

Summary of Jun 19 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of Jun 19 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:32:45 -0400
From: Judy Hallman <hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Cc: richard.boyd@virtus.com, david.lutz@virtus.com
Subject: Summary of June 19 Web-Walker meeting 

To Web-Walkers list:

Next meetings
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Topics of interest include Intranets, Java, Virtual Reality

The next meeting will be July 17, 3:00, 209 Manning. Thanks to David Lutz,
Richard Boyd of Virtus Corporation will show us their product. Deb Aikat
and his Journalism students will use Virtus to develop VRML pages for the
campus. One objective of this meeting (besides the demo) will be to
propose particular projects for the students. 

No meeting in August. Later meetings will be scheduled after classes 
start and we can schedule a room.

New Home Page
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Home page and templates 
OK.

Campus Sites and Services 
OK. We looked briefly at some of the policies.
Please check policies and procedures and let me know if you see any
problems.  These have not been edited yet and that needs to be done before
they go to Anne Parker, Bill Graves, and Susan Ehringhaus for approval, so
there is still a little time if you see anything that needs fixing. 

Admissions
Change "Student Information" to "Information for Students." Done.

Research and Academics
Suggestion to add Public Service here. Howard Fried and I both looked at 
it and Public Service doesn't fit well on these pages. It's under Campus 
Sites and Services. Will just leave it there for now.

Office of the Chancellor
Margaret Balcom said that she thinks there is a better picture of the 
Chancellor. I'll check with Victoria Gless (who is responsible for this 
section). Thanks to Michael Phillips of ATNS for putting up the current 
Chancellor pages for Victoria.

Libraries
The menu uses h3 headings instead of h4; this should be changed to make 
this page consistent with the others.

Information for Students
We had several variations. Lynne Neill and the Information for Students 
committee have put together the "final" version. We discussed the 
Policies and Procedures section. I had all the campus policies and 
procedures that I know have Web pages in one big alphabetized file. The 
request was to just put up student policies. Instead I tried grouping 
them into campus-wide, student-oriented, staff-oriented, and faculty 
oriented. We changed the entry to just Policies on the student page. 
Margaret Balcom suggested to me that we take out The Source -- it's 
listed elsewhere and isn't really policies (done) -- and she suggested that 
Susan Ehringhaus should approve the contents of this page. Seems like a 
good idea to me.

News of the Day
Take the word "The" out of The University Gazette and The Daily Tar Heel.
I have since taken out News releases (latest was April 14). Will put 
that item back when there is someone in News Services to start 
maintaining these again.

Directories
Minor formatting change in unc. newsgroups.

Search
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The search option currently only searches the www.unc.edu (Ra) server. 
Plans are to expand the function for all campus servers. Much work 
remains to be done. 

Thanks to Chris Colomb for the search option and his presentation.
I'll work with Chris and campus web server system administrators toward 
enlarging the scope of the search option to include more campus servers.

Statistics
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Usage statistics are now available for pages on www.unc.edu, thanks to 
Jason Purdy. Instructions are at www.unc.edu/about/provider/cgi/stats.html.
The statistics for www.unc.edu are at http://www.unc.edu/stats/stats.html

Again, more work remains to be done. I'll work with Jason, Jim Murrell (Ra
system administrator), and campus web server system adminstrators to see
if this function can't be extended to pages on other campus web servers. 

Attendees:

I forgot to pick up the sign up sheet.


Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)

Campus-Wide Information Systems Manager, UNC-Chapel Hill