Title: Beyond brochureware building functional university websites the gestalt view
1Beyond brochureware - building functional
university websites (the gestalt view)
The Next Steps
- David Christmas
- Ian Roddis
- September 1999
2Presentation Outline
- Four classes of website we know
- OU examples and their key characteristics
- Summary of the evolutionary process
- Lessons, recommendations and some questions -
OUr way
3The four classes
- 1 Indie Sites
- 2 Webmaster Sites
- 3 Embedded Sites
- 4 E-business
4Key characteristics
- What does it do ?
- Who is involved ?
- Who is it for?
- How does it affect the organisation ?
- What technology does it use, and who decides ?
5Indie-site 1
Screenshot of any classic home page (including
picture of cat, motorbike and recent birthday
party perhaps)!
6Characteristics of indie-site 1
7Indie-site 2
beagle2.open.ac.uk/
8Characteristics of Indie-site 2
9A Webmaster site
10Characteristics of Webmaster sites
11Characteristics of Webmaster sites
12Embedded site 1 - a prospectus
www.open.ac.uk/courses
13Embedded site 2 - a web gateway
www.open.ac.uk
14Embedded site 3 - Student record access
www.open.ac.uk/students
15Embedded site 4 -summer schools booking
www.open.ac.uk/residential-schools/
16Characteristics of embedded sites
17Characteristics of embedded sites
18An e-business site
www.dell.com/
19Characteristics of e-business sites
20Characteristics of e-business sites
21The evolutionary process
- Function
- Organisational involvement
- Effects
- Technology
22The evolutionary process
- Function
- From a website
- To our business
23The evolutionary process
- Organisational involvement
- Who is it for
- Who makes it happen
- Who pays for it
- Who builds it
- Who maintains it
- Who evaluates it
- Who cares
24The evolutionary process
- Effects
- Strategic impact
- Process changes
- Cultural consequences
- Cost of failure
25The evolutionary process
- Technology
- Integration with other IS
- Development tools
- Robustness
- Standardisation
- Quality assurance
- Security
26The evolutionary process
Indie
Webmaster
Embedded
E-business
27Moving beyond brochureware
- Ownership
- Involvement
- Culture
- Meeting needs
- Processes change
- Adequate technology