Hi, WTF members - Attached is an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that is the
Website Portal Page Organization Plan - Draft #1. I've reviewed the
portal pages of several colleges that successfully use portals to
organize their sites (UC San Diego http://www.ucsd.edu, Iowa State
University http://www.iastate.edu/, and Florida Gulf Coast University
http://www.fgcu.edu/), and have organized the Ohlone web site into
categories for each portal page.

I need fresh eyes -- *your eyes* -- to review this document for
completeness (although changes will continue to be made to the portal
pages as a normal part of updating a website). Please print each of the
worksheets in this Excel file and make comments and revisions to your
printout. I will collect the printouts containing your comments during
the WTF meeting on Tuesday and will then create a second draft of the
organization plan.

When making your changes, *do not* try to include *everything*
conceivable since the portal pages should contain the main or most-used
items. If the portal pages have too much content, they will be
overwhelming and therefore difficult to use. I've already put *a lot* on
many of the portal pages and want to trim the amount of information on
them. So, I would also like you to consider *what can be removed* as
well as *what can be renamed to make more sense* for Ohlone.

The agenda for Tuesday's WTF meeting is:

* schedule future WTF meetings every other Tuesday 2-4pm through the
last week of May
* discuss overall comments regarding the Website Portal Page
Organization Plan
* discuss how to go about getting information for pages on the website
that currently do not have content (see the last worksheet in the Excel
document)
* review and select a website design to present to TACO
* review of Draft #3 of the Web Proposal (which you don't have yet! see
last paragraph)
* discuss any issues that may continue to concern you

I would like to put the new home page and portal pages in place by the
end of May so that I can then concentrate on the Zope portion of the
website project.

Therefore, Shirley and I want to bring the *final*
WTF-approved/recommended versions of the following to the 4/26 TACO
meeting to get TACO's approval so that we can seek approval by the
Cabinet by the beginning of May:

* Web Proposal - Draft #3 (some things have changed since we reviewed
Draft #2 so I'm working on Draft #3 and hope to email it to you tomorrow
or early Monday)
* Web Page Guidelines - Draft #3
* Website Portal Page Organization Plan
* website design

See you on Tuesday! Let me know if you have any questions about the
attached Excel document or if you cannot open it (I can print a copy for
you if you don't have Excel).

~ Cheryl
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~ Cheryl A. Lambert
~ clambert@ohlone.cc.ca.us
~ Web Designer, Learning Resources
~   & Instructional Technology
~ Ohlone College
~ http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us
~ 510-979-7409 office/message
~ Library, Room 1303

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