Meeting Notes
April 19, 2005
HSC Web Relaunch and New Templates
- Quick Tour of the New Site
- HSC home page ( http://hsc.unm.edu )
- Second level pages (Education, Patient Care, Research, Partners About)
- Other HSC umbrella pages.
- Design characteristics of the top level pages
- Standard departmental templates.
Key Design Elements on all Pages
- Nav bar and footer
- Fonts for special uses – Twentieth Century and Century Schoolbook
- ont for body of pages and headers tags – Arial
- Rectilinear design layout – lots of rectangles and very strong horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Do not pick and choose from these elements when working on a site. It is preferred that people use the templates that will be provided in the new HSC web author course.
HSC Web Author Class
First class will be held in mid-May. Second in early June.
We will establish a regular schedule over the summer.
Topics in class:
- Purpose of HSC Web Sites
- HSC Web Policy
- Most important tasks for a web author.
- Key usability issues.
- Working with the new HSC templates, based on cascading style sheets.
Webtrends Statistics
Go to : http://hsc.unm.edu/webdev/webauthors/ and bring up the brief online tutorial.
