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Department of Informatics
University of Bergen
New Website Launch Process
What is the best staging of the launch for the new website?
The new website is currently named http://main.itsoc.sixfeetup.com/, and we ultimately want it to become http://www.itsoc.org/
There a many ways to proceed, but here is a working plan:
Content Responsibility
Who should be responsible for what content on the website?
With the new website, there are several models we can follow:
Homepage Slideshow
What kinds of images should we highlight in the slideshow on the main homepage?
The new website provides an image "slideshow" or "carousel" to highlight various things. Currently we have an image of Shannon, ISIT 2008, and the Transactions (which is a bit too low-res for final production). Some graphics work is required for someone to submit an image with the right dimensions, but otherwise posting the image is pretty trivial.
Ideas:
Homepage Shortcuts
What kinds of links should we have in the "Join - Participate - Contribute" box on the main webpage?
The idea of this box is to have "shortcuts" for doing various things on the site that we want to emphasize or make easy. Please let me know if you have ideas on how to make the best use of this space. Some initial ideas are there, but they are easy enough to change.
Domain Name
Should we keep or change the 'itsoc.org' domain name?
Our current domain name is 'itsoc.org'. Given everything else we are addressing with the new website, we *could* change the domain name to something else, e.g., 'ieee-its.org', or 'informationtheorysociety.org'. I'm not advocating a change, but just want to emphasize that if for some reason we want to make a change, launching the new website gives us a good excuse to go ahead and do so.