MEETING MINUTES

Thursday Jan. 24, 2002 (9:00am)

1. Agenda Items were Elect Committee Chair

2. Determine Overseers Of Departmental Websites

3. Determine whether or not to use sub webs in the COS and Department websites

4. Discuss COS Website design, flow, and content needs

5. Discuss Departmental design, flow, content, and conformity requirements

    Agenda Item 1

       After nominations, the committee, by majority vote, elected Brian Morgan to chair the committee

     Agenda Item 2

        By consensus, the committee decided it would be in the College's best interest to have all Departmental websites overseen by the COS ITC. The COS ITC will then hand out author privileges to those people in the department that are determined to need and warrant writing privileges.

         Discussions of possibly getting administrator rights on the COS webs from John Savory so the COS ITC could administrate COS User privileges on Departmental webs (to be discussed with Savory).

      Agenda Item 3

           Discussion of where COS faculty's research and/or class webs should go. Questions were raised, such as: Why not make everyone use WebCT? Users want to use FrontPage, can we get the extensions on MUPFC/USERS? Can we get sub webs created on WWW?

            Summary of options discussed after deciding the COS wants to standardize with FrontPage for ease of use. Many faculty/staff members do not feel comfortable with FTP but feel comfortable with FrontPage.

            a)  Use MUPFC/USERS if FP extensions can be implemented on those machines - to be discussed with UCC personnel.

             b)  Use WWW if sub webs can be created.

             c)  Make faculty/staff use WEBPAGES

            d)  Provide the service in house via COS ITC resources

      Agenda Item 4

            The COS web needs updated. Committee wants a simpler and cleaner look. Some dislikes are: Dark Colors and Accessibility to Department webs. New designs to be created and reviewed.

      Agenda Item 5

             Committee discussed and agreed that all COS Departmental pages to should follow the template used on the COS webpage. Conformity is essential for user-friendly environments. Setting standards and minimum criteria discussed briefly and will be discussed in next meeting. Requirement of a Syllabus Page on all Departmental sites agreed upon. Committee agreed that updates of department pages should be enforced..