ECE2:Development

Things to do b/f Release

I want the new site NOW, so let's start crossing these (literally please) of the list... http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/

• Make the Search bar work. currently uses the ECE look vs the ECE2 look, but that can be fixed after release <= it seems to be using the ECE2 template.. did you mean the ECE index? sorry, forgot to update the list on this, works now (it is still only searching ece since ece2 is behind wrap)
• Fix the title photo for Search
• Update the RSS icon so it more closely matches the Cal/Photo icons -- http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/free-rss-feed-icons-the-ultimate-list/
• The fonts in the footer change from the frontpage to the rest... fix.
• Point "Support" in the footer to www.wolftech.ncsu.edu
• Remove "Disclaimer" in the footer -- if we need to have something later, we'll create it then.
• Put the correct links in the NCSU Header links -- use the ones for the current www.ncsu.edu website.
• Need to figure out where to link in Graduation... I was going to do an overlay on the main page of the main image
• Validate Courses page

About Us

• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering. Which g?
• Driving Drs -- http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/about/directions -- make RDU and Google Maps their own boxes under the current two.
• remove the "temp" section of the nav
• Move the "Mission Statement' section with Trews photo/intro to the top of "Home". Remove that section header when you do. Page should start with his statement/photo.
• Nav
  • rename "Mission Statement to "Program Goals".
  • in order: Home, Program Goals, Statistics, Publications, Committees, Employment, Driving Directions, Contact Us. ('adtl resources' section goes away)
  • make 2nd section -- Facilities
    • Overview -- existing text
    • Engineering Building II -- pilfer the Promise site (which will likely dissapear at some point) SECTION CREATED, #WEB DAN TODO# Just needs the numbers, and some content filler needs a different inset picture and different colored circles as well
    • Moneith Engineering Research Center -- should include your section on Liquid Motion. Section on Cleanroom... SECTION CREATED, #WEB DAN TODO#I need information about the clean room.
    • Teaching Labs --- Overview, Collaboratories, Public Computer labs (suck info from here: http://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/support/support/Computer_Labs SECTION CREATED, #WEB DAN TODO#
    • Centennial Campus SECTION CREATED, #WEB DAN TODO# Just needs content and stats for the associated section. Use http://centennial.ncsu.edu/ for fodder.
    • Research Triangle Park (not a link, but content page) SECTION CREATED, #WEB DAN TODO# (fix nav link) need descriptions for companies Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park and http://www.rtp.org/main/
    • Raleigh
  • make 3nd section -- Department History
    • rename existing link to "Overview"
    • split Highlights into own page
    • move Dept Heads here
      • reorder so they get older as you scroll down...
  • move Why ECE to Ugrad section.

News & Events

• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering.
• Update the headlines to id those that are features on the frontpage.
• Fix the Article links so stuff link "View Original Article" or even the entire "Engineering News Links" on http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/news/10891 don't show up.
• Make "Send to Friend" functional.
• Clean up Search news... actually... do we even need this?
• Remove "CACC" as News sublink.
• Click on "ECE Undergraduate" sublink... note the first black bar. Can we fix this on the subpages?
• What's causing the mess up on the 2002 archive page?
• Fix the hor bar under the articles on the main Newsroom page
• Turn Archived ECE News into a pulldown.

• Need to figure out how we're going to integrate "Newsroom", News&Events, and Calendar... doens't make sense currently.

• CSS issues are still cropping up :( still would prefer calendar be at top in html
• Need an ICAL page similar to the RSS Feed page
• Need a better title image. i like the current one, personally

• NAV
  • Headlines
    • Current (should list all 2008 headlines -- past and upcoming)
    • Archives (as you have it now)
    • RSS Feed
  • Calendar
    • Current (should list all 2008 events -- past and upcoming)
    • Archives (as Headlines does it)
    • iCal Feed #WEB DAN TODO# - make a page for it
  • Publications (??? not sure this will remain here or in About Us)... well, these are PR materials... thus News...
    • Annual Report need a page listing annual reports
    • Theses and Dissertations (move http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/pubs/etd here)
    • Technical Reports (empty for the moment)
    • Research Posters (empty for the moment)
    • College Newsletters
    • Archival Publications (use current info in "archival" section + the "departmental newsletters" section)
  • Media Information
    • General Contacts (treat this like the "Contact Info" page on the Corporate site... in fact, basically duplicate for now). would recc using the About Us contact page instead
    • Experts List (manually grab the info from the following pages until we can setup something automated: http://www.ncsu.edu/univ_relations/expertsonline/search.php?subject=Computer+Engineering, http://www.ncsu.edu/univ_relations/expertsonline/search.php?subject=Biomedical, http://www.ncsu.edu/univ_relations/expertsonline/search.php?subject=Electrical+Engineering, http://www.ncsu.edu/univ_relations/expertsonline/search.php?subject=Microelectronics (ignore first and last), http://www.ncsu.edu/univ_relations/expertsonline/search.php?subject=Robotics
    • Quick Facts about ECE (based on http://news.duke.edu/resources/quickfacts.html -- Leda is preparing a one page info sheet for ECE that I planned to use to help with our stats page. Will definitely also fill this page).
    • Photo Gallery (static page with text similar to http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/resources/freephotos.html at the top... Put in a reference to giving credit where used... then a link to the Gallery... OR we add a page into the Gallery itself that talks about usage rights and then link to that page directly when clicking on the Newsroom nav link...
  • [need a button at the bottom -- think the "give now" button -- that has "Subscribe for Email Updates" that links to the TownCrier Subscriptions page] added the lightbuld

People

• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering.
• Nav
  • hide Grad Fellows/Grad Assistants for now.
  • make admin/research/tech staff work. NEED THE PROPER GROUPS IN THE DB TO DO THIS, DONT KNOW WHO IS WHAT On your chair. Be sure to first update the ece dir code so the group changes won't muck up the live site.
  • remove All Staff We need to rename All Faculty to something different
  • point Advisory Board to correct link Needs inset pic, or would you prefer it just points to corporate? (point)
  • point Fac Awards and Honors to correct link Don't worry about approval? (correct, not public, so no big deal)
    • Lets update this to look at bit more like http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/undergraduate/computer_engineering. Less blah. #WEB DAN TODO
  • Remove the current "Edit Profile", replace with image, think the "Give now" image in Alumni, but smaller, and centered.

• Profiles
  • remove the red bars next to each section.
  • remove "similar faculty
  • why no titles for research fac on profile?

• link the "edit my profile" button to Dossier.

Ugrad

• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering.
• change the nav "ECE at NC State" to "Why NC State?"
• On the EE and CPE pages, we need links to the current 'pre06' pages. Which should also be nicely formatted. #WEB DAN TODO# just linked them to the registrar curri page Not acceptable -- must create special pages for this. Registrar doesn't have the correct info. Special case.
• Add in a "Links" section that uses the "Financial Aid" and "NC State Admissions" links.
• New page under prospective students -- "Transfer Information" within should be the links found on the current Ugrad Advising page http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/academics/ugrad/advising/
• Home
  • Replace widgets w/ plain Ugrad photos. Perhaps we'll bring it back later. kept the stats widget
• How to Apply
  • Needs #s next to each section.
• Summer Workshop... need a link to this ffrom the Outreach page... Should probably just move to Outreach altogether, agree? Go for it. It can be one of our first subpages for the Outreach section.
• Ugrad Research stays here. Change the Research version to a link to it.
  • Fix the layout of this page -- the headers/content/images need to be moved around a bit to fit together better.
  • though the page URL needs to change to /undergraduate/research
• Move Course Listing and Senior Design to General Info
• Rename Ugrad Curric to 'Ugrad Degrees'
• Rename Accelerated Degree to Accelerated Masters
• Move Adivising FAQ to General Info and rename to Frequently Asked Questions
• Clean up Double Major -- make similar to the EE/CPE 'pretty' layout. #WEB DAN TODO#
• Move "ABET Accred" under "Home"
• need to tone Why ECE down, plus space it out... bit overbearing at the moment I toned it down, #WEB DAN TODO# - pictures
• Why is the top of Course Listing missing or messed up?
• http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/undergraduate/apply -- each section should have a cooresponding image on the right. Doesn't have to be a photo... clip art will probably be more appropriate. #WEB DAN TODO# Convert to this format -- http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/about/centennial Not sure I follow what you are wanting as far as how that style would apply. Use the line/circle look. Do we still want 'clip art' in circles for this, or is the current set up good?
• Senior Design... nav shouldn't link to their site... but to a page that gives an overview, has a photo of Bart (w/title, contact info, think Tara's Corporate contact page, but just a corner of this page), and a content widget of the current sponsors (widget of this content http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/seniordesign/sponsors.php). On that page should be the direct link to their site. Should have a couple glossy photos of students in Troxler and at SD Day. #WEB DAN TODO# Might need some of its own content thats not found on the current senior design page
  • Need to see the http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/seniordesign URL somewhere obvious on this page. (for more info...)
• http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/undergraduate/abm -- see the reference to Joel? Update to Leda.
• Believe we need a link to the 2+2 Program in the Degree section, above the Accelerated Masters link. Details: http://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu/degreesandcertificates/undergrad.htm

Grad

(this is just a first run through... needs much more work than this, but have to start somewhere) Thought we were waiting on the grad office on this. We currently have a copy of CSC's on ours - should we go with that our use the current ECE graduate material? Fix the bits I've mentioned, then I'll take another run. Yes, the Grad Office will be helping, but I want to give them structure first.

• Photo needed on
  • Home
• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering.
• Nav
  • Needs "Course Listing" just like Ugrad has.
  • Move Home above the first section... want to see how this looks.
  • Remove Faculty Research
  • Move content of "Our Vision" to Home, then delete page.
  • Rename "Degrees" section to "Graduate Degrees" and move to be 1st section on Nav.
  • Remove "People" page, "Graduate Research History" page, FAQs page
  • Move link "University Graduate School to bottom of "Prospective Students" section, then remove "General Info" section.
  • Move the "PHD" to the bottom of the Degrees. Throw in a reference to the Masters of Networking.

• Create me mirroring (right side) version of that "highlighted text/excerpt" seen on the Ugrad homepage.

• Under the degree section, need a page for Distance Education -- should have the basic info from this page (http://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu/degreesandcertificates/graduate.htm) and a main "for more info, http://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu" predominately at the bottom of the page.

Research

• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering.
• Why is the page messed up suddenly?
• Replace latin in Center Descriptions.
• Replace photo of Ghovanloo in top right.

• Facilities needs to show the RESEARCH facilities... cleanroom and anything else we can think of. Sections on:
  • Cleanroom
  • HPC
  • VCL
  • RENCI Visualization
  • Triangle National Lithography Center
  • ...
• Replace Latin in Funded Projects description

• SubAreas
  • fix the title of the "Associated Faculty" subbox. Think I'd rather keep it on the right like you do on the Research Focus Areas pages. not sure where you mean on this http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/research/mrad/dc -- see how Assoc Faculty is layed out on this microarea? Now look at the macroarea. Prefer the former. fixed, but had to move the Sample Plans of Work to one of the bigger boxes to make it work
  • replace the Latin text
  • Assoc Courses links need to point to ece/courses/ not CourseMax Coursemax seems to be missing some classes put in default "not currently offered" case

Community

• Fix the text on the main page -- replace the needed text w/ Latin so its obvious.
• Redo the section title image and fix the too early fade on the right. Fade should start with the 'g' in Engineering. it's the same fade as every other section title :(
• Corporate missing from left nav. it was on the main link bar so we didn't need it here
• Replace Latin text.
• Rename "Resources" to "NC State Resources"
  • add Student Media -- http://www.ncsu.edu/sma/index.htm
  • add Study Abroad -- http://studyabroad.ncsu.edu/
  • add Community Service -- http://www.ncsu.edu/campus-life/community-service/index.php
  • add Student Organizations -- http://www.ncsu.edu/sorc/
  • add Campus Recreation -- http://www.ncsu.edu/campus_rec/
• Sections aren't organized alphabetically, should be: Alum,Corp, Entr, Out, Photo, Studs
• No idea why we have "Ethics" here... need to find more appropriate location. About Us or Undergraduate would be the most appropriate places, probably - other options are to make it an internal site page or to boot it altogether
• PhotoGall on the Community index page -- link it in.
• fix the link on the image.

Outreach

• needs page or two.
• email sent to Barlage seeking information
• anything that we might nick from the new Engr Outreadch site? Not really Open House, Nano Days, Rudy's Summer Workshop... um, what else? Science House, Escuti's AventWest Middle School Outreach Program #WEB DAN TODO#waiting for information from Dr. Barlage
• Update the Nav to the following: Home, K-12, Summer Workshops, Open House, Design Day, Departmental Tours, Outreach at NC State
  • Add an REU section to the Summer Workshops (if we need to, take some of the general info here: http://www.ncsu.edu/undergrad-research/Studentsa/summer-research-programs.php)
  • K-12 is the AWMS page, we'll hopefully add another section here later. Actually... lets put the Science House section here... And Nano Days.
  • Science House needs to have in internal page that explains what it is and our involvement (Leda), then has a prominent link to their site (aka like the SD page on Ugrad). need info on Leda's involvement, everything else done
  • OpenHouse -- this will be the new home of the content here: http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/openhouse/ -- so move it all in. Will need references to the older ones. Once we go live, we'll put a redirect on the ece/openhouse url to point here.

Alumni

• move the content of the "Alumni Benefits" page to the bottom of this Home. Make into last section.
• Make "Supporting ECE" its own nav section
  • Make Tax Benefits look like Planned Giving/Endowment pages (layout)
• Links of Interest
  • First, rename
  • rename "College of Engr" to Engr Alumni, and point to that rather than main Engr site.
  • remove Frontline and NCSU links
• Alumni-only Tools
  • rename to Alumni Benefits
  • looks like you have the "internal" tools working... need to clean them up though... everything works and validates and looks good now #WEB DAN TODO## - check CSS in the IEs (come see me for a login)
• Student Orgs -- replace Latin text.
• Remove the "you may also be intersted" OR move to the top paragraph.
• http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/alumni/featured_alumni -- need a "read the full interview" link to make it obvious there's more to these...

Corporate

• Move the "Make a gift now" icon from Corporate to Alumni.
• Associates Program
  • Remove "Current Partners" and move all of the icons under the intro text of the Assoc Prgm page.
• Go through our recent news and make sure there's not more "Associates in Action" fodder -- the Progress Energy 1.25Million donation for example.
  • paginate this page into multiples.
  • remove the last article that gives the names of the advisory board.
• Replace Latin in Advisory Board.
• Check the table listing the board -- looks funky in IE7.
• Naming Rights page needs a couple photos of the building. added pictures - the old content is horrible and needs to be replaced
• Photo needs on
  • Sponsorship Options still needs pictures for newsletter and grad pamphlet
  • Involvement Opportunities
• New nav division -- "Corporate Involvement" -- under this goes Recruitment&Emp, Involement Ops, Sponsorship Options, Naming, Gifting, Endowments, ECE Senior Des.
• Exisitng nav -- move Advisory Board up one, and have Contact Info follow it.
• Remove Faculty Research and Gifting Options (the latter is not corporate, but individuals and thus should remain on the Alumni side where it was originally).
• Our footer "Donation" link (http://www.ece2.ncsu.edu/corporate/gifting/) points to a page that seems to have fallen out of our Corporate sections nav. Need to add it back in whereever appropriate. ah... page might have been moved to Alumni? Well, we need to sort this out regardless.
• The last link on the nav is broken/missing.

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Options that can be done after Release

Things we can add to the site after we go live.

General

• reset css, make valid

About Us

News&Events

• ECE expert list, preferably drawn from the Campus Expert List
• should include Media Contact information

People

• Add in Grad Fellows/Grad Assistants
• Do something with empty profile information...
• People homepage could be a "Featured Faculty Member" first...

Ugrad

Grad

Research

• Groups and Labs page needs some loving. Bad layout.

Community