Minutes of the Meeting of September 1, 2004
1:30 pm, Davis Conference Room
Present: Christy Branston, Marian Davies, Chris Gray, Linda Hastings (Recorder), Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield, Marina Wan (Facilitator)
Absent: Charles Woods
- Minutes of meeting, June 23, 2004
Approved with minor changes.
- Business Arising
9.2 Esther reported that the new CSS version of the index page is now live. The file index1.html was eliminated and replaced with index.html because index1 wouldn't validate. All old index files will be removed.
9.1 Bill mentioned that because of time constraints he will not be implementing CSS / XHTML for the new ERM database files at this time.
5., 6. All actions completed
- Agenda Review
Add Database page design. #9 (Bill)
- CSS-based Web Site Project - Progress Report
Esther reported that some work still needs to be done, but what is done is looking very good. Some complicated areas are being worked on presently. Selectors will be reminded to work on their areas. Hopefully many areas will be completed this fall.
- Navigation bar updates
New items will be added to the drop down menus (Action:Esther):
- change Interlibrary loan to RACER/ILL on forms menu
- Remove (Interlibrary Loan) from From Other Libraries on the borrowing menu
- Add News & Newspapers under e-texts on books, articles, etc menu
Esther will send Bill dependencies.
- Webbits (Tips) series
Marina reported that the first Webbit email will be sent on Sept. 28. There will be three more Webbits fall term and five in the spring. A directory has been set up for all Webbits sent during the year. This can be found at sub-directory "webbits" in the directory "/staff/webmaint". There will be brown bag lunch discussions after every 3 tips are distributed. Marina will change "notify" to "please contact" in the address line of the Webbit.
- ERM Implementation Update
Bill reported that ERM (Electric Resource Management) is set to go live Sept. 13th. There will be no XHTML and no style sheets. The impact to the public interface will be minimal.
- Special Collections' employment of external web service
Anthony Robbins has been hired by Special Collections to work on a web-based oral history project. Marina will meet with him to introduce our web creation and maintenance guidelines and general principals.
- Database page design
Bill suggested that a small working group be struck to suggest a "look" for the ERM pages. This group would consist of six volunteers from CNAC, ISR, and WebOps. Marina pointed out that we might like to wait to see what the official UW design might look like. A re-design of our homepage will likely be needed as well.
- Around the Table
None.
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