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The current Cal Poly
Home Site was rolled into production on September
8, 2003. Its development was the culmination of
2+ years of marketing research, constituent / stakeholder
collaboration, design and development. The Campus
Web Coordinator contributed to this effort over 9
years of experience in managing the original Cal
Poly Web sites. |
- Conducted extensive survey and analysis (1300
+ respondents) between October 2001 and January
2002.
- Conducted six Constituent-based focus groups
from March through April 2002.
- As a top priority: specified, evaluated, and
implemented a new search engine (Google) December
2001 through August 2002.
- Full recommendation report released July 2002
- Collaboration with key stakeholders established
August 2002 and is presently on-going
- Developed minimum requirements for campus Web
pages
- Reviewed 23 design proposals (several submitted
by an Art course), narrowed the selection to 4,
then chose the final design which would borrow highlight
elements from another (January through February
2003)
- Final design was refined during March and April
2003 being approved by the Web Ad Hoc Committee
in April 2003.
- Development work was begun in late April 2003.
- Several related sites were re-masked with the
new design (e.g. search engine and CP Maps)
- Original photography was obtained for nearly
all pages.
- Extensive use of Dreamweaver libraries and templates
was employed.
- Final Site was reviewed August 27 by the Web
Ad Hoc Committee
- Site was deployed on September 8, 2003.
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The site was implemented
with Netscape 6.x and IE 5.0 PC, and Netscape 7.x
and IE 5.x Macintosh as browsers of minimum compatibility
. Other "newer" browsers were examined during
the implementation process such as Safari and were
found to provide a viewable page. Earlier versions
of these browsers provide a viewable page albeit not
as elegant as presented in the newer browsers. It
is fair to point out that as of May 2003, over 93%
of requests to Cal Poly Web pages were from Internet
Explorer browsers.
Cascading Style Sheets are used to the extent that
it allows a page to be viewable and usable on the
above browsers.
Web Accessibility was considered throughout the design
and development process and all top-level home site
pages should be useful to those individuals who require
the compatibility provided for in the Section 508
quidelines.
The main image on the Home Page change with each
reload of the page, revealing another one of Cal
Poly's campus community members and a glimpse of
the beauty of the campus. All
of the images are available for viewing in one place
for those who don't want to wait for each page to
load.
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Help With Your Cal Poly Web Site |
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The campus community
is encouraged to participate with the Cal Poly WWW.
See the Web Authoring Resource
Center for Web site development assistance, Web
Accessibility (ADA compliance), Campus Web page minimum
identity and communications standards, University templates
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Cal Poly's Central Web Server Statistics |
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Most Department, Faculty,
Staff, and Student web files are located on the Central
Web Server. We don't track Web server information for
Web servers independently owned and operated by individual
departments and faculty. |
NOTE: Web
Server logs are retained for up to three complete
months plus the current month. Reports based on those
logs are kept for the last complete month and the
month prior to the last complete month.
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Copyright information and notifications of alleged infringement |
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If you have a complaint
about potiential violations of copyright found on any
Cal Poly Web site, please email abuse@calpoly.edu
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Establishing a Link from the Cal Poly Web site |
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Cal
Poly Official Web Pages
Before making a request to have an official
Cal Poly Web page/site linked from the Cal Poly
Home Site pages, be sure that you have examined your
site vis-a-vis the Style
Requirements for Cal Poly official Web pages.
Only official
Cal Poly web sites are linked from the Cal
Poly Home Site pages. For consideration of a
link, please make request to the
and provide the following information:
- Link
URL - the URL of the page/site to be linked
- Department
/ program name - the title of the page/site
- Contact
Name - your name or the name of the Web coordinator
responsible for the content of the page/site
- Contact
Information - a phone number and an email address
of Web coordinator so we can make contact should
we need to give suggestions about the page/site
or require any necessary modifications to the
page/site.
Prior
linking from the Home Site, your site/page will
be evaluated according to the Style
Requirements listed on the Web Authoring Resource
Center. All official
Cal Poly Web sites must adhere to the required
items identified in the Style Requirements section.
For
links from a college or department Web site, please
contact the respective college or department.
Club,
Team, and Personal Web Pages
At this time we do
not link club, team, or
personal home pages for
Students, Faculty, and
Staff from the main Cal
Poly WWW pages. Club pages
are linked through the ASI
Clubs and Organizations page. A couple of suggestions
for getting your personal home page linked up is
to do it through a campus Club or Organization you
are affiliated with or to see if your major department
has a home page for Students, Faculty, or Staff.
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All Home Site graphics are produced by
student artists working under the direction of the
Campus Web Coordinator
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Home page imagery was shot and composited
by various staff and students from Cal Poly. For more
information on the student images on the home page,
please see the Home
Page Images section. |
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