http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/#workshops Details of the parallel workshops at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 en 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/upton/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/upton/ Until recently, authoring for the Web required a battery of technical skills and know-how. The role was seen as a technical one that required technical wizardry to undertake. Here at the University of Birmingham we are installing systems and processes that remove many of the technological hurdles that used to exist when creating Web pages for the corporate Web site. In the process we have to redefine our views of what is the role of the Web editor. This workshop will give the opportunity to discuss and define the role of the Web author as technology becomes more transparent. 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/stanley/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/stanley/ Your Web site is one of your major public services, delivering your own brand of information and expertise, and as such is yone of our most potent marketing tools. However, many websites are now reaching breaking point in terms of volume, and near-anarchy in terms of content creation. Many sites have a huge amount of content and a large a distributed group of web authors. As sites continue to grow at a rapid rate, volume becomes disproportionate to need, and the task of keeping content up to date becomes increasingly difficult. In addition, many sites are inconsistent in content or style, and fail to adhere to accessibility guidelines. Web site managers increasingly need to take a strategic standpoint on web content. This workshop will use the Leeds University Library website as a case study for the development of a coherent e-content strategy encompassing design, accessibility, maintenance, editorial control and integration. The primary audience will be those who may be new to leading project developments (suppliers) or people commissioning software development (customers). 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/browning/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/browning/ Blogs & Wikis sit in the spectrum of Collaborative Groupware. This workshop will explore: The relationship of Blogs & Wikis to other forms of groupware The infrastructure required to implement Blogs & Wikis in-house The externally-hosted options The support issues of either in-house or externally-hosted facilities The opportunities in terms of the current and future landscape (e.g. VLEs, VREs, ePortfolios) The need (or not) for strategy or policy in this area 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/middleton/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/middleton/ Considering implementing an institutional portal but confused by some who say 'Aye' and others who say 'No'? An institutional portal is intended to provide a seamless, Web-based interface to a range of systems and services, potentially offering a customised and personalised Web environment for staff and students. A good idea maybe - but the days when a good idea was enough to convince are long gone; new projects need SMART objectives to progress. This session will provide an overview of creating a business case for an institutional portal using experiences from the University of Leeds and group discussion. Learning Outcomes: 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/milne-mackillop/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/milne-mackillop/ This workshop will give a practical demonstration of how paper prototyping can aid rapid Web development. Paper prototyping is a well-known method of simulating interface elements with low-res paper models. 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/hiles-pitt/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/hiles-pitt/ This session will provide an introduction to the real-world implementation of the Plone Content Management System (CMS). The session will explore the problems and solutions that underpinned the commercial development of two Web sites. The presentation will be followed by a discussion session. Participants will be invited to contribute potential Plone use cases, for discussion by the group at large. Users of Plone at other institutions are encouraged to attend and contribute their experiences, to aid the group discussion. 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/malcolm/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/malcolm/ The impact and performance of a CMS implementation is traditionally measured against internally agreed objectives and key performance indicators. But how does your CMS implementation stack up against other implementations and what might this tell us about the relative in/effectiveness of differing strategies and CMS products in achieving particular goals? Participants will be encouraged to critically examine the metrics that might be used in order to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of CMS implementations between organisations. A case study will examine the results of a detailed analysis of the impacts of a far reaching CMS implementation at The University of Western Australia. 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/campbell/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/campbell/ This workshop explores in practical terms how issues of legal compliance can be proactively included within web management. It will be shown how such preventative steps can avoid costly and troublesome problems and disputes later on. The session will be conducted through the presentation of scenarios related to the areas of intellectual property rights, e-security, ISP liability, data protection and privacy, freedom of information and cyber-crime. There will also be a question and answer session. 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/walker/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/walker/ This workshop will provide hints and tips on project management and how to prevent time scale slippage in software development projects. The session will not focus of major development methodologies (SSADM, UML, DSDM, Extreme Programming, etc.) but on a collection of practical, real-world techniques and lessons from 15 years of software development in Local Government, private industry and higher education. The primary audience will be those who may be new to leading project developments (suppliers) or people commissioning software development (customers). 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/lauke/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/lauke/ Coding to Web standards - only a few years ago considered the sole domain of fussy purists with little or no connection to the real world - has become a central concern for both designers and developers. The increasing number of large, commercial Web sites making the transition from "tag-soup", browser-specific code to clean, structural markup, is proving that Web standards may well be a viable technology of today, rather than just of a theoretical, utopian tomorrow. The benefits are many, and often highly publicised: separation of content and presentation, easier reusability of content, potential for increased accessibility (high on the agenda of anybody striving not to fall foul of SENDA), better search engine rankings and decreased bandwidth requirements, to name but a few. But the path towards achieving these benefits is not free of obstacles... Having relaunched the core site for the University of Salford in September 2003, with a new design based almost exclusively on CSS-driven, table-less layouts, Patrick H. Lauke will provide the opportunity to consider and discuss the main motivations behind such a relaunch, the problems that can be encountered along the way, and the far greater (and, in the case of Salford, still ongoing) challenge of implementing web standards and good practices across the institution. 2004-07-28 B3: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/milne/ B3: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/milne/ A workshop to discuss the role of taxonomy within portals and to clarify the processes concerned with creating a Taxonomy by linking the stages of taxonomy development to the information retrieval techniques successfully used to effectively organise and retrieve knowledge within libraries. 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/fraser-krauss/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/fraser-krauss/ The workshop will be a hands-on/discussion session with the aim of making participants aware of e-business implementation issues. The discussions will be based on case studies and examples to illustrate the main changes required in business processes and the importance of tackling issues such as integration with legacy systems, the need for robust processes and procedures, fall-back options and a fit-for-all solution. 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/closier/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/closier/ Putting procedures in place to maintain the quality and functionality of any Web site can be a daunting prospect but this session aims to explore simple methods which will help ensure functionality, useability and accessibility of your Web site. This workshop will discuss Quality Assurance procedures for managing Web sites. Participants will be asked to consider what can go wrong on their Web site, why exactly things are going wrong, how Web site owners can find out when things go wrong and finally what can be done when things have gone wrong. In this session we will consider how you can integrate important QA aspects, like testing, into your current procedures and in doing so significantly improve your Web site, its infrastructure and content. The workshop will address both technical and non-technical issues. 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/porter/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/porter/ Why do Web sites and prospectuses look nothing like the experience we are trying to portray? Tired and unimaginative images and text risk putting off the audiences most institutions are trying to attract. With an ever-increasing image-conscious audience how can we adapt our brand and keep up with the trends, without losing sight of our message? This hands-on workshop/discussion group addresses the diverse needs of the institution where image and message are concerned, and considers the requirements of the client (from researcher to academic department, from services to students to conference organiser and everything in between). 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/rahtz/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/rahtz/ This workshop session will provide practical guidance on how to set up projects using open source methodologies. What are Sourceforge and CVS? How do I put a licence on my software? How do I involve a community? How does a distributed set of developers work? How do you document the work? How do you keep control, or not? 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/sargan/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/sessions/sargan/ What does your Web site need from a search engine and can you find software that meets that need and a price you can afford or will be prepared to pay? The session will explore how to reconcile your needs with what is available. 2004-07-28