About this Website

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.

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.

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 and more...

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.

• View page hits and statistics for last month
  • Pages requested for last month (Page Hits)
  • Browser (agent) statistics for last month
  • Server statistics for last month
• View a current snapshot of the server

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.

If you have a complaint about potiential violations of copyright found on any Cal Poly Web site, please email abuse@calpoly.edu

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.

All Home Site graphics are produced by student artists working under the direction of the Campus Web Coordinator

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.