The Webmasters’ Desk

What’s this all about?

I’d like your help in taking www.bus.wisc.edu to the next level. As you probably know, we have a loosely organized, semi-autonomous army of content authors here at the School of Business. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of them.

Why are you bothering me?

Given our distributed authorship, I need your help. I need your input. I need your involvement, your brains, your questions! I know you’re busy, we all are. It’s my hope that we can use this blog as a forum to communicate, discuss and document how we approach the sites and content on www.bus.wisc.edu, share our best-practices, our problems and, most importantly, our solutions. As a stakeholder in the School of Business Web presence, you’ll receive notifications of new postings and you can read and comment them at your leisure (this should be read: “no extra meetings” )

So what do you want from me?

For starters, I’d like to know what’s on your mind. What problems are you having? What features do you covet? What aspects of the Web, web design, search engines, etc would you like to know more about? Also, if you’re interested in posting in this space please let me know. The more, the merrier!

Allow me to offer up some possible post topics:

1. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
2. Usability
3. Writing for the Web
4. Web standards
5. The School of Business Style Guide
6. Blogs and blogging
7. Podcasting
8. Macromedia Contribute
9. Search Engine Optimization
10. Internet vs Intranet
11. Web statistics
12. Industry trends
13. Favorite sites

Those are just some suggests. What are Web topics will help YOU make your site better?