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2 weeks until launch!

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The prep work for our August 15 web site launch is reaching a fever pitch right now.


The web site content freeze is underway. Since July 15, Web Services team members have been migrating web site content and making adjustments to the design and organization of content in preparation for the launch. In addition, Web Services has applied the new mobile-friendly web site template to all existing pages in the designated migration phases. View the list of migration phases here.  The Web Refresh team is targeting sites in Phases 1A-1D for launch on August 15.

The final working preview of the CI web site is located at:
http://beta.harbor.csuci.edu   

We recommend that you also try it out on your smartphone or a tablet to get a better sense of how the new web site will work across different devices.

Between now and August 5, we have requested that campus units/departments/programs subject matter experts visit http://beta.harbor.csuci.edu and review any web pages/sites closely associated with their unit/program to verify that content and interactive elements have migrated as expected. A list of sites and migration phases can be found here for reference. 

If you find problems or would like to suggest corrections or changes, please report discovered issues via the “Give us your feedback” link at the top of each page in the preview. During this period, the Web Refresh team shall repair all discovered issues and re-publish them for further review/preview, to the best of its ability.

Please report any significant issues by August 5. Issues reported after August 5 may not be addressed before launch on August 15, but will be addressed after the launch.

We also invite you to celebrate this important milestone with us at the Web Site Launch reception, starting at 11am on Monday, August 18, 2014. Food and beverages will be served. If you can attend, please RSVP for the Web Site Launch reception. 

Feel free to contact Peter Mosinskis at peter.mosinskis@csuci.edu with any questions, and thanks for your ongoing support of this important project.

Phase 1: Discovery

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Before you start to change things on a web site, you need to know:

  1. what to change; and
  2. why you are changing it.
Unless these issues are both defined, web site changes are doomed to flounder. Hence, the first phase of the Refresh project involves discovering our needs and out goals.

During the 2005 redesign process, the Web Steering Committee addressed discovery via a web based survey, and one-on-one and group fact-finding meetings. This data serves as an initial benchmark which gauged the perceptions of the CSUCI web presence.

The 2009 web refresh will use a similar process and include a web survey and individual + group meetings. In addition, previous benchmarks will be reviewed to determine if they are still meaningful and useful, and new benchmarks will be created.

One new benchmark will include individual feedback from President's Cabinet. Stakeholder meetings with each member of the Cabinet are underway to obtain their feedback on specific concerns, and should be completed by the end of this week.

Another benchmark is the "Rate This Page" feature, which since Fall 2005 has enabled web site visitors to provide individual feedback on specific web pages.

As with all parts of the refresh process, we want to make the discovery phase as open and collaborative as possible. Feel free to share your comments with us on this blog or via email at webmaster@csuci.edu. We'd love to hear from you!