From hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.eduFri Feb 10 08:43:37 1995 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:25:54 -0500 From: Judy Hallman To: web-walkers@unc.edu Subject: Summary of Jan 18 Web-Walkers meeting Summary of January 18 Web-Walkers meeting on the UNC-CH Home Page Next meeting: February 15: Review UNC-CH style guide This was a very informal meeting -- general discussion of the UNC-CH Home Page. Someone said that image loading is slow. There was discussion about how to turn off images and a suggestion to add this information into the help for new users. Netscape is available from sharenet.oit.unc.edu. For Windows, go to net/winsock/apps/netscape. For Macs, go to net/Macintosh/netscape [corrected Feb. 10] Wendy Parker is having problems loading the staff jobs listing; it is large and crashes her PC. She has had better results by bookmarking that file and going straight to it without going to the UNC Home Page Hallman said that now that the Staff and Faculty sections have been split, the worst sections are "Welcome...," "Departments and Organizations," and "Recreation, events, and calendars." (Well, actually, there are more -- the Global resource section needs a better name and better stuff in it, and it's not easy to get to UNC System resources.) The Welcome section is weak. Hallman met with Scott Jared (Publications Services); he will try to find some good material for this section and help with its organization. Weather information is buried at the end of the section. It was suggested that we move weather out to the Home Page, perhaps with a small icon in the bottom left corner, replacing the date. Thomas will look into doing that. We need to find a better presentation for Departments and Organizations -- three views were proposed: alpha, alpha within Academic Affairs and Health Affairs, and by organizational structure. A search option would also be nice. The Recreation, events, and calendars sections also need better organization. There currently are two pages -- one for students and one for faculty and staff. They are essentially the same, except the student page has a few additional items. The pages are long and it is hard to find things in them -- especially OIT training classes. We talked about possibly having a section on campus life under the Welcome page. Someone pointed out that things people go to often should be in their bookmark files. Some people put in their home pages links to things they use a lot. With regard to personal home pages, Mary Overby will look into providing linkable URLs for home pages in the UNC-CH Email ID Database Lookup, where people currently look up e- mail addresses and phone numbers. An update facility could be provided, like the one for e-mail address. Tom Rutledge described the proposal to have personal home pages on the free e-mail machine, coming out of the current disk space quota of 3 Meg. NSF would be used to connect the pages to the WWW server on Ra. This lead to considerable discussion about potential dangers from personal home pages and possible University liabilities. This is an area of concern on most campuses that have Web servers. Scott Mebust briefly described the work he is doing to generate HTML pages for Physics faculty from a FoxPro database. We do not have topics for the March and later meetings. Some suggestions are: Sybase and the Web (Mary Overby would lead) Translators to HTML Copyright HTML editors What are your preferences? Atttendees: Lea Blanton, Cont. Ed. Andy Broughton, Soc. Work Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center Chuck Fennimore, CARES Judy Hallman, Office of Information Technology Tom Hocking, Morehead Planetarium Doris Jarrell, OIT Nancy Jesser, OIT JJ Kim, Soc. Work Ken Langley, OIS Scott Mebust, Physics Mary Overby, ADP Wendy Parker, AHEC Glen Piper, OIS Tom Rutledge, OIT Kathy Thomas, OIT Iosif Vaisman, Pharmacy Ken Yow, VC/GSR Weifan Zheng, Pharmacy