WST Minutes

Date: January 11, 2000

Location: Helm 05

Members Present: Bryan Carson, Deana Groves, Jonathan Jeffrey, Rosemary Meszaros, Donna Parker and Sandy Staebell, Haiwang Yuan

1. Haiwang demonstrated the revised WKU home page, which features "InfoGateway" and "Making a Gift" links.
2. Haiwang briefly reviewed the team progress in migrating and revising the departmental pages:
• A total of 834 pages have been revised using templates with consistent and innovative navigation mechanism.
• Directories in the server have been rearranged to facilitate future web development. Related files now reside in the same directories.

Haiwang thanks the WST members for their collaborative and intelligent work. Thanks also go to the former WSWG members who helped lay the groundwork.

3. While acknowledging the efficiency of such web tools as Dreamweaver and Atomz.com used to redesign and debug the web pages, WST members were concerned with link checking. They discussed ways of catching dead links to outside web resources. Haiwang will investigate available free or low-cost services or software that meet this technical need.
4. The rest of the meeting was devoted to a discussion on the construction of the InfoGateway. The team worked out a list of categories and brainstormed their content. It decided that the links in the categories should be carefully selected and the page published on the web when each category gets up to five links. Another goal was to have all the categories appear on one screen. The team also decided that the categories should be listed alphabetically.
5. Suggested categories and examples of contents are:
   
   

Antiques, Collectibles & Printed Materials [contents: Appraisal, Conservation, Preservation]
Art & Culture
Autos [contents: Corvette, CarTalk]
Education & Teaching Resources
Entertainment & Sports
Facts & Resources
Finance & Trading
Genealogy
Health, Nutrition & Food
History & Civilization: Local, Regional, World
Home Life & Gardening [contents: home buying, gardening]
Kids, Teens & Parents [contents: Kidsafe sites, homework help, parenting, Teen sites]
Libraries & Museums
Local Information
Science & Technology [Internet search engines]
Senior Citizen Sites
Shopping [contents: Auctions, Evaluations]
Travel, Weather & Currency

Several methods were discussed about team collaboration in the construction of the InfoGateway page. It was decided that Haiwang would devise a draft page, the team would submit URLs to him for adding to the page. The team would monitor the page and critique it.

6. Next two meetings: February 8 and March 21, at 1:30-3 p.m., Helm 5.

For the Team,

Rosemary Meszaros & Haiwang Yuan