1. Webmaster team -- transition report
2. Proposed site for employee information/fun stuff
-- What should be included?
-- Who should "own," maintain and develop the site?
-- Where should it be linked in?
3. Top levels of U.Va. site
-- Proposed short-term improvements, such as making HSC links match
their new structure, better metatags & searching (see Jim
Barrett's comments and questions below), other?
-- Models from elsewhere
-- Possible workplans for redesign
4. Committee membership: categories and individuals
5. Other updates
Hope to see you here. Louise
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:14:37 -0400
>From: Jim Barrett
>To: Louise Dudley
>CC: Polley Ann McClure ,
> "William A. Knaus" , rer2s@virginia.edu,
> tms@virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: Accessing Health Sciences Center links from the UVa home page
>
>Louise:
>Thanks for your reply to the UVa web site concerns raised by my
>Chairman,
>Bill Knaus. As you probably guessed, I am the one that investigated
>the ease at getting various Health Evaluation Sciences information from
>the UVa page.
>
>Initially, we had a comment from a network-savvy person at a health care
>consulting firm
>that it was difficult to find information on either Bill Knaus or the
>department of Health Evaluation Sciences.
>
>I was surprised to learn that at best I need to follow some five links
>before I encounter
>any substantive descriptions of Bill or HES. Use of the UVa directory
>search engines
>(whois) did not show either Bill's nor my own name. ( I searched on my
>name
>because I thought 'Knaus' as a recent 'recruit' might not have made it
>into the
>databases yet.)
>
>Perhaps this is due to some broken links.
>
>If I might offer a couple suggestions: (1) is it possible to let the UVa
>robots make use
>of the HSC (etc) search lists, and (2) I (as the HSC web site operator)
>was not aware
>of the site address submission form in the top levels of the UVa pages -
>since
>most of these addresses are personal pages, perhaps either an email
>reminder to
>web operators or an alternate method of posting 'departmental' sites
>might be developed.
