July 2023 Website Meeting

Notes

ITS merger updates

We started off what would become a pretty brief meeting with an update on the ITS merger process. Shawn was required to re-apply and interview for his position, and luckily he was chosen to continue his role, as was our lead programmer and support director.

Unfortunately, however, we did not retain our now-former assistant director. While Nikky never had much reason to interface with anyone in that role, Shawn would like to set up a meeting between himself, Nikky, and Nathan, the new person in that role.

The next several weeks are going to obviously be a feeling out phase for everyone. But, Nathan wants to get to know the people that the web team overlaps with, and he will probably want to get to know our process. Shawn says he will follow up with Nikky next week to get meeting times sorted out.

Return of students

With all of that being said, the past few weeks the web team hasn’t been overly pursuing things. Nikky also has been out of the office the past couple of weeks herself.

However, as hard as it may be to believe, when we meet next month it will only be a couple of weeks before students are back on campus. So, if there are any things Nikky thinks she would need for the start of the new semester from the web team, feel free to reach out.

We took a look at the school’s “Welcome Week” page. Some of the details of that page may need updating, especially the content and photography in the feature area. The chosen photo in that area still features students wearing masks, as the last time we updated the page a mask requirement was still in place for university buildings. Nikky has the ability to make edits to that area in Umbraco, but the rest of the page’s content is hard-coded and would require the web team to make adjustments. If Nikky does think additional things need to be updated, she is more than welcome to reach out to the web team for those.