1. Foreword
Picture Your
Audience…
• Not for Web Developers, Programmers,
Designers, or whatever you guys may call
yourselves
• You should already know this
• For all the other folks around campus
• The Content Contributors
Spencer Tunick - Mexico City
http://spencertunick.com/installations/urban/343
@ctbarber #UAD12
5. Web Strategery
An Effective Way
to Say No to Click
Here
Todd Barber
@ctbarber
#UAD12
cbarber@uthsc.edu
Information Technology Services
Web Services
6. The “eccentric” faculty member
that wants to use <blink>
Chancellor
President
CMS Upgrades
Redesign Committee
Provost
CIO
CFO
Auditors
Consultants
Your boss
Your boss’s
boss
Your staff
The know-it-all faculty
member
The super nice staff member
That guy from the College of Busine
That girl from the
College of Arts and Sciences
Communications &
Marketing
Information Technol
The Server
Administrator
The Dean of the
College of Medicine
The new researcher that brings
in lots of $$$$$$$
Department of Journalism
Department
Department of Computer Science
Department of
Sociology
School of Music
School of Health StudiesDepartment of
English
Department of Math
School of Rock
The external dining
services vendor
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Chrome
Safari
The one browser that the really
important person on campus uses
PHP
Python
Ruby
YOU
The young whipper snapper
in the office
The old guy that falls asleep in all the meetings
The font is bad
Carousels
.NET
The Athletics Department
State Government
Federal Government
@ctbarber #UAD12
12. We had to put some thought into it.
@ctbarber #UAD12
13. This is more like it
animal thinker
we want you to think about content and how it relates to all the other things
we will keep the other things updated
This was probably
more like it.
@ctbarber #UAD12
14. This is more like it
animal thinker
we want you to think about content and how it relates to all the other things
we will keep the other things updated
OK, this was it.
@ctbarber #UAD12
18. Web Content
1. Adherence to Copyright and
Plagiarism Policies
2. Search Engine Optimization
3. Writing for the Web
EmergingWebTechnology
WebArchitecture
@ctbarber #UAD12
19. Web Design
1. Intuitive User Experience
2. Harmonious Color Palette
3. Typography
4. Modular
EmergingWebTechnology
WebArchitecture
WebContent
@ctbarber #UAD12
25. Pictures
• Naked Audience in Mexico City photo by Spencer Tunick
http://spencertunick.com/installations/urban/343
• Golden Gate Bridge Traffic photo by Henner Zeller (no changes made)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden_Gate_Bridge_Front_Traffic.jpeg
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
• Rodin’s Thinker photo by Drflet (no changes made)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodin%27s_The_Thinker.jpg
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
• Gorilla Thinker photo by Lilach Daniel (no changes made)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lilachdan/3848628184/sizes/l/
License: CC BY 2.0
• Saturday Night Live skit images are screen grabs from Hulu
http://www.hulu.com/watch/284761
26. Backword
Questions?
• Lots of things we leave out because our web maturity as
a campus isn’t there yet
• Mainly the business aspects
• But I do include it for some folks
Todd Barber
@ctbarber
(Twitter & Linked In)
cbarber@uthsc.edu
27. Todd Barber
@ctbarber
(Twitter & Linked In)
cbarber@uthsc.edu
Overall Strategy
1. Accessibility
2. Usability
3. Foster Campus Awareness & Involvement
Supporting Pillars
1. Emerging Web Technology
1. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
2. Follow the Leaders
3. Stay Flexible
2. Web Architecture
1. Consumable
2. Portable
3. Simple
4. Consistent
3. Web Content
1. Adherence to Copyright and Plagiarism Policies
2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
3. Writing for the Web
4. Web Design
1. Intuitive User Experience
2. Harmonious Color Palette
3. Typography
4. Modular
Notes de l'éditeur
The tools I mention are our tools, I am aware there are others.
The Content Contributors - Our strategy for them.
Bad thing about going last is my brain is fried, but you may not know the difference b/c yours is too
Good thing about going last is to see all the trends of presentations
obligatory kitten photo, but it has nothing to do with anything. However these are personalized so feel free to send a twitter shout out to Boots and Tippy
I’m in central IT - group of 5
Close to downtown Memphis, in the medical district.Level 1 trauma center right across the street, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is the tower in the background, and St. Jude is right around the corner.
about 2900 students, and 2800 faculty and staff, and 1250 residents, interns, and fellows
Bury the lead
We aligned it with university strategy. Keeps us on track. Keeps them on track.There may be an aside or two throughout.
Steal if you would like
as things fly in our direction -> gets overwhelming
need a way to push it to the background
it doesn’t go away, but minimized
with distraction removed we see things:
motorcycle
camper truck
cars
SUV
pull back some and see more things:
more cars
more trucks
a bus
some coming - some going
some rules and regulations
people on the side
shift focus just a tad
see people also doing different things
some coming
some going
some moving
some still taking pictures
keep focus on the people coming to our site, but our content contributors need to be happy too
had to make sense to us in the web world and the real issues we face
had to be understandable to those outside the web world
But we came up with something…
so we needed the different perspective
More like Rodin - we could have spelled it right
Where did strategy come from?
build
The first one was destroyed almost the same day it was given to our CIO
first one was way too general and didn’t mean anything
maintain - not as difficult to change as policy
adapt - as the web landscape changes
for equal political party play time - what was the other word?
came up with an analogy to explain what we want to do with our web
So let’s build a bridge
What is the most important part (the cornerstone)?
Most important part is the technology.
content is king, but the king needs a kingdom.
development tools - OU Campus, grunt, gulp, Foundation, bower, composer, PHP, Laravel, vagrant
know when to move to new tech - know when to drop browser support - OmniUpdate, Foundation, Laravel
be a playa - have an exit strategy whatever the tool
we don’t know who or what is coming to the site anymore
should be able to move servers (local/cloud) - move sections of the site or a page - OU Campus helps with this
start with the simplest of code. If it works, great. If not, add minimal complexity
put things in the same spot, name things the same, tell people the same things
remind people of the law - Google Images is generally NOT your friend - check the license
basic SEO practices (no click here), good titles, headings
different from print - middle school writing level - paste text into hemingwayapp
Your content should focus on your primary target audience, whoever that may be
elements on page should relate - different sections on the page should be noticeable
the colors should work - no orange (that is our system level color and is reserved on our campus for the logo)
in most cases, we do want something to be read - the typography should support that
the aforementioned sections should have visual definitions and boundaries if needed. lines, boxes, negative space
These 4 pillars are more for the web group, but they are there.
We want the campus to know there is a strong foundation
but that for the most part, it can fade away as well.
We can maintain this.
Now let’s build on top, our suspension.
What we put in is our Overall Web Strategy, what we actually tell folks is the most important thing
we start with a11y
Section 508
WCAG 2.0 AA
WAI-ARIA
Don’t need all the details, some is built into the templates, other things they do need to know
(((Until they do it for the right reasons, we scare with FUD and lawsuits)))
screen size, device, and location shouldn’t matter. be consistent, clean, learnable, searchable, repeatable, simple
But Todd, you haven’t shown me how to do anything yet - I know, first we want you to know how important this is to us, and how important it should be to the university.
These two are our Gold standard - our most important things that we want you to focus on.
A11y is more important and wins out if needed.
build our campus community
teach others about the suspensions and the foundation
groundwork for governance
Almost done building the bridge…need pixie dust
Now some pixie dust and the content is magically there, right?
Our ultimate goal is to get all of our visitors to the correct information as quickly as possible.
If done early ask - Does your university have a strategy? Is it competitive?