May 2022 Website Meeting

Notes

Research projects

As touched on in our last meeting, a new section of the main Health Sciences’s Research website is being developed to house information related to major research and grant projects. Dan gave another peek at the live website, mentioning that the site isn’t quite public just yet. He mentioned that if the School of Public Health has anything they feel is relevant and is ready to be included on this site, they can send the information along. At the time of the meeting, the site only has three projects listed, but more were in development, including a good amount of information from Nicole Beason’s group.

Nikky asked if there was anything else that she should try to provide, especially anything related to Nicole Stout’s project that is already on the site. Bill said that there’s really nothing needed right at this time.

Hosting toolkits?

Before today’s meeting, Nikky forwarded some emails on to the group concerning a toolkit that a grant project is looking to put online. The toolkit is for a project called “Intimate Partner Violence Research Engagement” and would have a targeted external audience primarily of providers, researchers, and advocates. The group making this request would like to have the ability to register users in order to view the information and answer questions about why they want to use the toolkit. The options for this project are that we find a place to host the information on our websites, or they will look to include it as part of the University of Wisconsin’s HIPxChange website.

We do have the ability to track usage on any of our websites through the use of Google Analytics. Attempting to keep this information behind some sort of login system is not feasible, the only exception being using SOLE as the place to house it. However, one option could be to put this content in a “hidden” section on the Public Health website. Essentially, this means that the section would not be linked to from any navigation menu on the site, and would only be accessible by knowing the exact address of the section. For further collecting user information about intent of use, a Wufoo form could possibly be set up. All of this could be done on the main Public Health website, but the possibility of using Hub was also proposed.

Dan was curious about the format of the content: Is it intended to be in any other formats? Nikky didn’t think so. The majority of the content seemed to be in a mixture of Word and PDF documents.

The web team said they would want to further discuss this, specifically when Shawn returns next week.

Commencement profiles

Finally, we ended the meeting briefly discussing profiles for the Commencement website. Nikky shared a story of her adding profiles to the Public Health site—which feeds the Commencement site—late one night earlier this week. When she went to update one of the profiles that was already being synced to the Commencement site, she said she went to look at the profile but it had seemingly broken the entire Commencement site. She adjusted some things on her end, and somehow the site came back. This will be something the web team keeps an eye out for going forward.