st: Re: Tomorrow morning?

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 8:38 AM, elg wrote:
> No worries--sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.  I left my  
> computer at NORC last night so I wasn't on email until just now.   
> We'll set up a time for whenever...

Lyz,

I'm sorry we missed each other this week.  We are very excited about  
our new website framework, the most important aspects of which are  
the following:

1) Better (and easier) administration of users (e.g., users may  
recover (securely) their passwords on their own if they forget them,  
we will be able easily to designate certain areas of the site as  
being accessible only by certain users or groups of users, etc.)

2) The ability to add events, to view them in a shared online  
calendar, and to download them (in iCal or vCal format) for easy  
importing in users' personal calendars

3) A simplified and enhanced bulletin board, making it possible to  
modify (and even remove) items that have been previously uploaded

4) An easier (and more dependable) method for managing "official  
documents" and related content

5) The ability to create workspaces easily which may then be used by  
a particular group working on a particular project

6) Overall, a more professional-looking and capable user interface.

As I said, we are currently testing this new framework on our  
development server and making a few final usability tweaks.  We are  
also figuring out the best way to migrate all of the content from the  
current site to the new site.  Although we shall ultimately replace  
all of our current project sites, our plan is to do the NSHAP site  
first.  We've had a few unanticipated delays in the past couple weeks  
(e.g., sickness, a couple of emergent issues related to other  
projects), and next week is going to be a bear catching up.  But  
sometime during the week after that (April 3rd) we can set up a time  
(perhaps on Wednesday that week?) to give you a brief demonstration.   
The new site should then be ready shortly thereafter.


-- Phil

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