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== Short Term ==
 
== Short Term ==
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* The e-mail at the bottom of each page is broken (this is part of the Barndoor project)
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* The e-mail at the bottom of each page is broken (this is part of the Barndoor project) - Sam is looking into this (1/27)
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* Add images and update the facilities and staff pages
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* We're removing the text in the top right corner - Sam has addressed most of this as of (1/27)
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* We need to get the news stuff working - Vlado and Sam are working on aspects of this (1/27)
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* Alumni link needs to be removed
  
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== Medium Term ==
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* Embed an IRC client into the website
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* Nothing special, but the first thing I noticed are the homepage graphics for the different groups. They might need some updating - redoing. Its honestly nothing important, but if we catch time - the whole metaphors behind group names and graphics (its icons) could be altered.
 
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* There's news in the CS department! ~ part ; definitely needs updating: we should be there and bunch of other news, right?
 
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** Email staff about the past events, and request or inform ourselves about regular update of news. We should also look into possible CS event information - depending on the ones going on - might be supplied by Charlie.
 
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* About the department~
 
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Add images perhaps?; of:
 
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-Facilities
 
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-Staff
 
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etc.
 
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*The email links are not functional - not shown.
 
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*http://cs.earlham.edu/pages/thissite.html
 
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This here?? Top right corner - make those areas (text) in similar links/sites on the webpage - more interesting;or if not changing it, change its positions. So unnatural for me - my opinion.
 
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** NOTE: Remove all of them / change them all.
 
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* The courses information site: looks pretty decent, wouldn't say there's something to be changed; but therefore I am asking you: do you think something should be changed or it gives sufficient description? Add more details or just tweak it a bit? Link it it original curriculum guide online if needed- it does exist right? :O
 
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-and similar-up to you.
 
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** Gathering all the info about the varying courses - and create database of our about it.
 
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** The whole academics part of the site could be revisited - probably needs changing and updating.
 
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***Same idea of database.
 
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*Alumni DB - errored - php extension I think - it might cause of that; not sure - needs changing - making it work: whatever it was.
 
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**Needs to removed.
 
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* IRC:
 
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Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (irc) isn't associated with any program.
 
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~thats the error message.
 
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**Kay will look into it- what's the error.
 
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* Links page ~ more links? Why not?
 
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Well that would be about it from my first run through the page; well yea as you noticed I just noticed pretty obvious stuff-but I hope it is ok for beginning.I will try to be more of help later on; but as you can see I am real CONTENT guy - I only 'complained' about the content of the specific aspect.
 
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~Vlado [01/21/09]
 
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(Maybe keeping dates is good idea)
 
  
 
== Longer Term ==
 
== Longer Term ==
 
* Tracy is working with someone to update the alumni pages for physics and other departments, and we might want to follow his template to update our alumni page
 
* Tracy is working with someone to update the alumni pages for physics and other departments, and we might want to follow his template to update our alumni page
 
* We need to go through and make all the links point either to cgi-bin or ../cgi-bin
 
* We need to go through and make all the links point either to cgi-bin or ../cgi-bin
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== Ideas ==
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* homepage graphics for the different groups. They might need some updating - redoing. Its honestly nothing important, but if we catch time - the whole metaphors behind group names and graphics (its icons) could be altered.
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* Links page ~ more links? Why not?

Revision as of 17:48, 28 January 2009

Let's put up a list of areas of the website that need some TCL sometime soon. Stuff that's outdated, stuff that needs overhauling, stuff that's broken.

Short Term

  • The e-mail at the bottom of each page is broken (this is part of the Barndoor project) - Sam is looking into this (1/27)
  • Add images and update the facilities and staff pages
  • We're removing the text in the top right corner - Sam has addressed most of this as of (1/27)
  • We need to get the news stuff working - Vlado and Sam are working on aspects of this (1/27)
  • Alumni link needs to be removed

Medium Term

  • Embed an IRC client into the website

Longer Term

  • Tracy is working with someone to update the alumni pages for physics and other departments, and we might want to follow his template to update our alumni page
  • We need to go through and make all the links point either to cgi-bin or ../cgi-bin

Ideas

  • homepage graphics for the different groups. They might need some updating - redoing. Its honestly nothing important, but if we catch time - the whole metaphors behind group names and graphics (its icons) could be altered.
  • Links page ~ more links? Why not?
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