Custom Web Site Design Services

	Web Redesign

Those who are responsible for Web Publishing Services in various Computing and Library departments spend growing portions of their time doing repetitive content-formatting tasks for clients, especially reformatting e-mail, word processing, and table (spreadsheet) documents into html markup for new and updated Web pages.

With the second phase of a Computing Web Redesign project about to get underway, a discovery group can get a head start by evaluating the benefits and costs of deploying a light-weight Web content management system. The team would then make recommendations available to the Web Redesign team, as well as other on-campus Web developers.

This CMS discovery group will meet a total of four to six times in September/ October 2002 to develop recommendations.

Objectives

»	Identify and consider needs of internal and external Web site users
»	Identify and consider needs of Web production staff: Authors, editors, designers, developers, administrators.
»	Develop broad criteria for evaluation of Web CMS options, including prioritized features list.
»	Investigate and evaluate current options and costs for commercially-available, open-source, and campus-developed/integrated CMS applications.
»	Select three hosted solutions for demonstration.