Web Information Manager

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Web Information Manager

• Ruth McDunn
• mcdunn_at_slac.stanford.edu or ext. 2014
• Central Lab (B40), Room R110
• http//www.slac.stanford.edu/mcdunn/mcdunn.html

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Topics

• What is a Web Information Manager
• Accomplishments
• Concerns
• Whats Next?

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Web Information Manager

• To develop and maintain the architecture and
  manage the content of SLACs central web space.
• Create, maintain, and manage top level SLAC home
  pages
• Provide web users and authors with procedures,
  support, and training
• Manage SLACs AFS and NT web server space
• 50 position, established 4/1/98
• Report to head of Technical Information Services
• Ex-Officio member of Web-CC
• Member of InfoForum and Web-Tech committees

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Core Pages Managed

• Welcome Page
• Detailed Home Page
• Highlighted Home Page (set of 7)
• Web Policy and Resources
• Phone Directory Search and Other Directories
• SLAC Announcements Submission Forms
• SLAC Features
• SLAC FleaMarket
• News from the Web Information Manager

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Accomplishments

• Revised home pages implemented August 1998
• Documented WIM procedures
• Managed Web server space
• News from the Web Information Manager
• Many training courses and presentations

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Revised Home Pages

• WWWCC Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Highlighted and
  Detailed Home Pages
• Revision process began February 1997
• Implemented August 1998
• Updated Design
• Tables with bulleted lists
• Minimal descriptive text
• New navigational features and buttons
• Phonebook search on every page
• Professional look and feel

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New Features Since Implementation

• Show Index
• Les Cottrell script that shows an alphabetical
  listing of the links on a page
• Automated Processing
• Announcements
• Conferences/Workshops
• Flea Market
• Phonebook search revised
• Active employees, not every employee ever at SLAC

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Documented WIM Procedures

• Topics
• Responding to WWW-Admin Mail
• Web Servers at SLAC
• Request for New Web Space
• Unix Procedures for a New Web Space
• NT Procedures for a New FrontPage Web
• Request for Changes to ACLs
• Requests for an Increase in AFS Volume
• Will be adding log analysis procedures, as
  developed

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Web Space Management

• Reviewed all web AFS space for space allocation
  and ACLs
• Adjusted space and corrected ACLs as needed
• Created many web spaces on Unix and NT
• Since 8/98 on NT
• www-group (6)
• www-project (11)
• www-user (18)

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News from the Web Information Manager

• The Interaction Point column and on the web
• Home Page Announcements (9/98)
• Searching the Phone Book (10/98)
• New Links on the Home Pages (11/98)
• Announcing Announcements (subscribing) and
  Submitting Conferences (12/98)
• Can't find a link? (Show Index feature) (2/99)
• Web Policy and Support (3/99)
• SLAC FleaMarket (planned for 4/99)

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Presentations/Training Provided

• Presentations
• About the SLAC Home Pages
• FrontPage at SLAC (to SNUG)
• Computer Faire - Ask the Web Information Manager
• Take our Daughters to Work Day Open House (4/99)
• Training Courses
• So You Want (Need) to be a Web Author
• Introduction to FrontPage 98
• Forms in FP98
• All formal presentations and courses are
  available on the web

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Concerns

• Web space allocated to employees who are gone
• Instability of NT servers
• still cant offer new web space or assistance on
  www2 because new Athena server hasnt been set up
• Inappropriate use of web space
• Next revision to home pages
• Giving web authors the time to learn this
  technology

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Whats Next?

• Continuous improvement
• Feedback form
• http//www2.slac.stanford.edu/techpubs/wim/comment
  s.html
• Log files
• Web Trends software purchased and Unix space
  allocated for process
• Periodic review by WWW-CC
• Identify WSC training or resource needs
• Next course -- Web Graphics Primer