Present: Sharon Ashton, Scott Bennett, Lucy Croft, Marianne Jaffee, Lance Taylor, Dmitry Bond, Scott Peden, Marian
Watters, Fred Sudler
1. Review of Minutes:
Motion by Scott Bennett to approve the minutes from the December 12, 2008 IPC meeting, seconded by Lucy
Croft, the minutes of the December 12, 2008 meeting were unanimously approved.
2. Presentation on Home Page designs by Marian Watters:
Marian Presented a 3 column design using all real estate on page that included:
HOME PAGE EXAMPLE A:
Top Header – UNF Brand – permanent with Search engine
Discussion that this band was never to change, Is the Search Engine effective?
First Navigation Band – permanent
Discussion on whether the navigation band should be a different color in order to set it apart and make it more noticeable to the average searcher.
Permanently include: New Students, Prospective Students, Current Students, Faculty and Staff,
Alumni & Friends, Community tabs
Picture Band – picture with box for verbiage
5 new and fresh pictures will be added as soon as we go-live. Those pictures will be held exclusively for use on the Home Page Band only. Pictures will rotate.
ACTION ITEM – Marianne Jaffee will come up with 10 phrases for the home page that incorporates the University’s Value, Vision, Goals and Mission Statements.
Secondary Navigation Band – Tabs of Interest (Academics, Athletics, etc.)
Looking to change the color/appearance of this tab.
ACTION ITEM - Committee is to look at tabs and bring revisions/suggestions to next meeting
Body of Home Page – split in 3 sections: Spotlight, UNF in the News…, Happening Today
Spotlight—perfect
UNF in the News….. members liked the one sentence format
Happening Today – Scott asked if this could be limited to specific categories (Athletics, Fine Arts, etc) and not pull everything from the calendar. Fred stated that CMS could make this specific and
Sharon additionally asked that CMS to look ahead 30 days and submit items to Sarah Dufrense who will approve all events that appear in this section.
Bottom Header –permanent
Will include the University’s full address, phone number and copy write.
ACTION ITEM – Policy & Regulations need to be readily accessible and linked through other pages. This will be addressed at the next meeting.
ACTION ITEM - Offices and Services Tab – Marianne Jaffee will revisit and refurbish this tab and will bring those changes to the next meeting.
ACTION ITEM – Fred would like to see a place for Disability Resources.
SUB-PAGE:
Header on Sub Page - Will reflect the college or division’s ownership of the page
Footer on Sub Page – Will remain as it is on the home page
Secondary Navigation Band – would reflect the needs of the college/department and the IPC
Committee will limit the number of tabs allowed on the template.
Photo Band – It is difficult to find pictures that are panoramic that could be used in this area without showing imperfections. It would be easier for the sub-page photo band to have a 3-section photo band where a smaller square photo would be better suited for this space as well as 2 additional items that would detail the college or department such as artwork and mission statement.
Offer units a choice – left or banner site navigation
HOME PAGE EXAMPLE B: Marian showed the committee another example of a home page.
Major difference in this example was the addition of a navigation bar on the left side of the picture.
Members liked the switch to horizontal/vertical lines, easier to navigate
Picture was nice. Maybe wording should be larger and more prominent when using a darker picture
Easier to navigate with left side navigation.
Header and footer always to remain the same on the Home pages and subsequent web pages.
3. The committee liked the look of either Home Page Template, but asked Marion to:
Change the fonts on the navigation bands to make the wording more noticeable
Move the picture from Example B to Example A
Change the white spaces to a light gray color
Work in the new color pallet on the home page examples
Sharon Ashton asked if changing all the templates within CMS will be problematic for the pages that have already been developed. Dmitry told the committee that changing the home page was not a problem as it should be refreshed once in a while to make the UNF website new and refreshing. The redesign of the subpages is a little tricky, but not a big problem.
4. CMS Timeline:
Lance Taylor voiced a concern about working out of 2 camps and the need to publish a schedule to the campus community detailing the migration steps. It is important that this be communicated to all units as soon as it is known.
ACTION ITEM - Fred Sudler will present a migration timeline to the committee at the next meeting
ACTION ITEM – Sharon Ashton will decide on a communication plan to present to the
IPC Focus Group
Scott Bennett will update the UTC at their next meeting (1-12-09) on the IPC. It was discussed and decided that Scott will relate to the UTC that the IPC is working to develop a final template for the Home & Sub Pages, Developing a Photo Gallery (all will have signed releases), the committee is pushing back the go-live date of CMS until after the rollout of Banner 8, and are developing a Navigation plan that will be communicated to the campus community.
5. Photo’s for the Web:
Sharon Ashton advised the committee that Dan Dundon and Mary Ann Rosenthal are developing a gallery of 100 photos that have signed releases. In the future they are going to categorize as the gallery grows.
Access to these photo’s will be available to all website developers.
Photos will be in high resolution and directions will be available for uploading. Mary Ann has also agreed to help users with Photo Shop if needed.
The General Counsel’s office is developing a model release for all pictures
All photos that are being currently used on the web, will be refreshed periodically
Mary Ann will look through and give Marian the 5 most powerful photos that are presently in the gallery.
6. Portal 2009 Conference, June 2-5, 2009
Lance Taylor brought this to the committee as he thought it would be important for UNF to “tell their story” of the development of our Portal. All members agreed that it would be of
Interest to conference goers our success in implementation of the UNF Portal. Sharon asked if anyone had the desire or budget to attend this conference and it was decided that if funds were available, Scott Bennett would attend as he was the Chairperson of the Portal Committee.
**Meeting ended at 10:10am. Next meeting will be held on Thursday, January 22 nd at 8:00am in the Daytona Conference Room.