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Web Admin - Meeting Notes

March 2001

Attendees: Mike Corcoran, Kurt Cypher, Eileen Porter, Verne Smith, Charles Platt, Jeff Dabney, Jonathan Smith, Miguel Gomez, Richard Mercer, Greg Kojola, Nancy Shank, Michelle Frisque, Jeff Zentner, and Donna Hamilton

New Sites

SOPP - coming soon
Admitted Student Web site
Lake Campus - updated to new banners and style sheet

XML

Donna and Jeff Z. attended an XML workshop in Detroit. We learned a lot, but most of it is not very useful until XML support is more widespread. Current Web browsers have questionable XML support. No version of Netscape supports XML, not even NS 6. IE 5 and 5.5 both have outdated support (standards were not yet in place), although you can download and install an updated XML parser from Microsoft that will bring IE up to speed.

On a side note, Apple's OS X stores all its preference data as industry standard XML, and newer versions of MS Office are using XML for PowerPoint, Access, and other applications.

PHP & mySQL

CEHS shared examples of how they are using PHP & mySQL on their server to create dynamic information and provide some search functions. They also have an on-the-fly PDF generator for their Web pages and an error logging utility that sends e-mail to the webmaster when a user encounters a server error.

The main Web server will be upgraded to Apache soon and will include support for PHP and mySQL. See the Web server notes for more information about upcoming changes and upgrades.

Accessibility

Beginning July 1, inaccessibile pages will be required to become accessible within 2 weeks or be removed from the Web server. A statement was sent out April 12 to all WSU Web publishers to inform them of their responsibilities. You can check your pages using the Master Checklist. Accessibility workshops are offered twice each quarter.

ROX (Raider Online eXpress)

References to class offerings should point to http://rox.wright.edu/rox/students/, rather than the old method (http://www.wright.edu/admissions/registration/fall/..).
Online registration and payment may be available by August.

Main Web Server

Will be upgraded to new machine in May - dual 400 MHz processors, 2 GB RAM, hot-swapable CPUs
Will run Apache server software
Will include PHP & mySQL support
Inquiries and comments will soon be sent to helpdesk@wright.edu instead of webmaster@wright.edu or webmaster@wright.edu.
CSS Definitions for the WSU third level style sheet are available at: http://www.wright.edu/web/style/cssdefinitions.html

Miscellaneous Notes

The University Library is looking for link-checking software - SOM uses Astra Site Manager. It runs on a Windows 2000 workstation using Windows Scheduling Manager, doesn't deal with orphan pages, and can be told to ignore specified links.


	Web Admin - Meeting Notes March 2001 Attendees: Mike Corcoran, Kurt Cypher, Eileen Porter, Verne Smith, Charles Platt, Jeff Dabney, Jonathan Smith, Miguel Gomez, Richard Mercer, Greg Kojola, Nancy Shank, Michelle Frisque, Jeff Zentner, and Donna Hamilton New Sites SOPP - coming soon Admitted Student Web site Lake Campus - updated to new banners and style sheet XML Donna and Jeff Z. attended an XML workshop in Detroit. We learned a lot, but most of it is not very useful until XML support is more widespread. Current Web browsers have questionable XML support. No version of Netscape supports XML, not even NS 6. IE 5 and 5.5 both have outdated support (standards were not yet in place), although you can download and install an updated XML parser from Microsoft that will bring IE up to speed. On a side note, Apple's OS X stores all its preference data as industry standard XML, and newer versions of MS Office are using XML for PowerPoint, Access, and other applications. PHP & mySQL CEHS shared examples of how they are using PHP & mySQL on their server to create dynamic information and provide some search functions. They also have an on-the-fly PDF generator for their Web pages and an error logging utility that sends e-mail to the webmaster when a user encounters a server error. The main Web server will be upgraded to Apache soon and will include support for PHP and mySQL. See the Web server notes for more information about upcoming changes and upgrades. Accessibility Beginning July 1, inaccessibile pages will be required to become accessible within 2 weeks or be removed from the Web server. A statement was sent out April 12 to all WSU Web publishers to inform them of their responsibilities. You can check your pages using the Master Checklist. Accessibility workshops are offered twice each quarter. ROX (Raider Online eXpress) References to class offerings should point to http://rox.wright.edu/rox/students/, rather than the old method (http://www.wright.edu/admissions/registration/fall/..). Online registration and payment may be available by August. Main Web Server Will be upgraded to new machine in May - dual 400 MHz processors, 2 GB RAM, hot-swapable CPUs Will run Apache server software Will include PHP & mySQL support Inquiries and comments will soon be sent to helpdesk@wright.edu instead of webmaster@wright.edu or webmaster@wright.edu. CSS Definitions for the WSU third level style sheet are available at: http://www.wright.edu/web/style/cssdefinitions.html Miscellaneous Notes The University Library is looking for link-checking software - SOM uses Astra Site Manager. It runs on a Windows 2000 workstation using Windows Scheduling Manager, doesn't deal with orphan pages, and can be told to ignore specified links.
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