ACS Web round robin OUTLINE - annotated


What's this document?

The skeleton of this document is the outline we came up with in our meeting in mid-April. Inserted into each section are the notes Abby produced in February, each with a heading with *'s in it. Section authors can use or not use the content of the notes.

People are assigned to sections (or subsections, in some cases) by virtue of their name being in the section title. These are assignments are from the meeting notes from Mar 10, and may have shifted...Just send mail to the gang.


  1. Intro: SO YOU WANT A WEB PAGE...
     audience considerations
     -----------------------
     CWIS FAQ "Syle Guides" section includes links on both accessibility
     for the disabled and some device-independent styling stuff:
    
    	http://web.mit.edu/cwis/publishing.html#style
    
     ** Pedagogical **
     *****************
     We talked a bit about this at our meeting; I'm not sure how much we'd
     want to take on in the basic doc. phase, but we should include some
     general verbiage on Things to Think About Throughout.  cf. the UWired
     Catalyst Quick Guides, each of which includes a "Plan" and "Reflect"
     bit:
    
    	http://depts.washington.edu/catalyst/quick/ 
    
    
    ** Unix/Athena browser capabilities vs. Mac/PC **
    *************************************************
    General thought: document what works differently on Unix vs. Mac/PC or
    is unavailable on Athena (e.g., embedded video, shockwave, real
    players) and conversely, difficult formats for Mac/PC
    (e.g. postscript).  
    
  2. GUIDELINES
    ** Legal/Institute Policy **
    ****************************
    
    CWIS "Appropriate Use" guidelines
    
    	http://web.mit.edu/cwis/faq/guidelines.html
    
    MIT's Copyright Working Group
    
    	http://web.mit.edu/copyright/
    
    Student Information Policy (draft)
    
    	http://tute.mit.edu:8001/policies/proposed/mitmostly/sip.html
    
    	
    ** Accessibility **
    *******************
    W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (distinguish tiers here and in how-to
    sections -- practical tips, general principles, from broad issues):
    
    	http://www.w3.org/WAI/
    
    
    ** Accessibility (practical tips) **
    ************************************
    (distinguish tiers here -- i.e. practical tips and general principles
    from broader issues) 
    
    Some obvious starting points:
    
    	http://www.w3.org/WAI/
    
    	http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/
    
    	http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/otherresources.html#generic
    
  3. GATHER CONTENT, BUILD PAGES
  4. ONCE CONTENT IS READY - publishing your page
  5. MAINTAINING YOUR PAGES
  6. (NAOMI) FOR MORE INFO/HELP
    3. General Training/Support/Production Resources
    ------------------------------------------------   
    Overall, we should try to explain the role/scope of each group and how
    support ties together from a user perspective.
    
    ** TPS ** 
    *********
    Can't link directly to relevant courses, so explain nav.:
    
    	http://web.mit.edu/is/training/
    
            --> List of Available Courses (Quick-Starts & Hands-On) 
    		--> Web/Internet
    	            Graphics/Presentation
    
    Current courses are:
    
    Web/Internet                     Home Page Quick Start 
                                     HTML (HyperText Markup Language) Demo 
                                     Overview of Purchasing on the Web Quick Start 
                                     World Wide Web Quick Start 
                                     Netscape 4: Web Navigation Basics 
                                     Netscape 4: Web Navigation Intermediate 
                                     Web Publishing at MIT 
    
    Graphics/Presentation 
    
                                     PowerPoint Quick Start 
                                     Photoshop 5: Basics 
                                     PowerPoint: Basics 
                                     Photoshop 5: Update 
                                     PowerPoint: Intermediate 
                                     Photoshop 5: Advanced 
    
    
  7. TEMPLATES/SAMPLES