Follow these guidelines to keep the information on your department website up-to-date. Our feedback surveys show that outdated information frustrates visitors more than anything else. A&S Web Framework Team will send reminders about updates that should occur quarterly, semiannually, or annually.
As often as they occur:
- Add News stories and announcements
- Add Events when they are scheduled
- Add Research items when faculty or students tell you about them
- Update program descriptions and other pages when policies change
Every month:
- Change items in promotional or featured content areas
- Add at least one News story or announcement; see News Story Ideas if you need ideas for what to write about or how to solicit stories.
Every quarter:
- Update office hours or remind users to update their posted hours
- Review Research section and remove/edit any user-contributed items that don't belong
- Import Course Lists for each curriculum area (after updating in Time Schedule Construction)
- (Winter) Import next autumn
- (Summer) Import next winter
- (Fall) Import next spring and summer
- Customize Course Sections with descriptions and other details as necessary, after import
Twice a year:
- (Summer, Winter) Review and change large Images used on front page
- (Summer, Winter) Solicit News from faculty and students - awards, activities of interest, new courses
- (Fall, Spring) Solicit Research items from faculty and students - new books, articles, projects, dissertations, etc.
Once a year:
- (Summer) Review and update faculty/staff/student profiles
- (Summer) Review and update program pages
- (Fall) Review and update study abroad pages
- (Fall) Review and update about pages (including support us and stay connected)
- (Winter) Review and update resource pages
- (Spring) Send an e-newsletter (every quarter would be even better)
A&S Web Framework Team will:
- Add Academic Calendar dates (Holidays, Dates of Instruction) to the calendar
- Remove course feeds for past courses (automatically removed one year after initially added)
- Add Reg ID codes for user profiles (hope to automate this in the future)