WAC: Home > About WAC > Minutes > September 12, 2006

Web Advisory Committee Minutes, September 12, 2006

Minutes-taker: Sarah Jones
Attending: Beckett, Suzanne; Been, Joshua D; Carver, Beverly J; Dreitner, Bonnie K; Jones, Sarah A; Walter, Catherine; Wellvang, James K
Absent: Trkay, Gretchen

Mitch and Burton, as outgoing At-Large members, are invited to join in the discussion of WAC projects and priorities for the coming year.

1. Welcome new members!

• Josh Been
• Beverly Carver
• Bonnie Dreitner
  
  

2. Review meeting schedule

• Is the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 1:30-3:00 still good?

ACTION: Stay with current schedule

3. Web site re-branding

• Re-branding needs to be completed by Sept 26th (when review of UT Arlington documentation for accreditation begins)
• Text changes have been done (UTA -> UT Arlington; Libraries -> Library)
• The mockup we approved a few months ago
• Sample html version of the home page
• Sample html version of an internal page (but not ready yet as of 7-Sept-2006)
• If WAC is ok with these, I'll show to LMT on Thurs Sept 13 and then implement the following week

ACTION: Use this for now. Continue to revise as needed. Incorporate new library logo after it is ready to be used in public. Change favicon

4. Projects and priorities for the coming year

• Leftover from last year:
  • Message Boards (vBulletin)
  • Finalization of LIFT implementation
  • Google Mini search appliance
    
• Potential new projects:
  • Continue adjusting home page design and general look-and-feel
  • Resources by Subject (4.3.3 strategy for this year)
  • Resources for You
    • Use/audience targeting
    • Content choice/development
    • Layout for understandability/scanability
  • Other sections of internal pages to reevaluate
  • Use the Movable Type installation that is on swiss
    • GIS, SEL, Publications
  • Display of UT Arlington owned DVDs, with images and descriptions, on the web site. As an extract from Voyager?
  • College of William and Mary - integrated Meebo.com online chat availability icons and chat client browser integration - see Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary & Meebo
  • Usability program things
    
    

5. Assigning responsibility for maintenance of listing on Databases for Subject pages (e.g. Databases for Education & Kinesiology), should it be IS, IR, somebody else? A combination?

ACTION: Sarah will take to Coordinators on Sept 21st

Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:30-3:00 pm, B29 Meeting Room