University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko Redesign and Management of the Law School Website Conference For Law School Computing 2004 Gene Danilenko, University of Minnesota Law School Jennifer Carpenter, Duke University Law School

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 2 Before … Nonstandard Color Scheme Inconsistent Navigation Inconsistent Design Static HTML Pages Centralized Content Management (through webmaster)

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 3 After … Color & design consistent with main U Integrated, intuitive navigation Mainly database driven Content management system - decentralized

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 4 Need & Goals For New Site New Dean Student comments about usability University guidelines for look and feel Easier way to keep content fresh Highlight “higher value” areas  Prospective Students; External Relations; Calendar/Events Be Cheap

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 5 Resources Nick Spilman, Sr. Web Programmer  100% time. Architecture. Development Tim Fay, Webmaster  50% time. Development. Content  50% time existing site Gene Danilenko, Educational Tech.  10% time. Rollout. Training University Web Depot (templates) Law School users And not much of…

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 6 Timeline 6.5 Months Total from Go to Rollout July 1, 2003Project gets go ahead August 1Requirements documented September 1CMS chosen October 1Skeleton site built, first iteration of feedback November 30Last (#4) feedback iteration for prodn. v. 1 December 17Final code. Changes frozen December 18Content migration starts Jan 12, 2004Production site live. Training starts Feb 1.

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 7 Overall Process

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 8 Design & CMS Selection Used University provided templates Existing stock photos  University provided generic stock  From Law School publications In-house conference on structuring content Evaluated University’s solution  Spendy (Filenet Enterprise CM) Evaluated Zope, OpenCMS, WebGUI  WebGui 5.4 chosen – knowledge of Perl  MySQL backend database

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 9 Development Used small group of testers  Career services, Admissions Rapid development  4 cycles  User feedback for functionality, look and feel Customized WebGUI for our templates and standard authentication About 10 weeks of development  1.25 FTE on tech development .25 FTE on content development

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 10 Migration & Rollout Customized scripts  Transfer “existing” content to db  Purged “worst content”  Still needed manual clean-up Formally trained beta users February Reworked training and started with high impact content Developed online tutorial 

University of Minnesota Law Website – CALI 6/19/2004 – Gene Danilenko 11 On The Horizon A slightly modified Front Page A new round of photos and graphics Adding streams of special seminars Even more training A part-time web content editor? Ongoing maintenance