I'm interested in this thread but struck by a lack of one aspect. That
is the very simple one of providing a place/mechanism for much of
our day-to-day work to be made available on the web. Most of what
I am talking about will be "intranet" by target (even if we don't bother
to restrict by address etc) but the crucial point is that this must all be
doable by people who have very little knowledge of web
technicalities, who would not recognise an HTML tag if it bit them
and who can come to regard the process as about as simple as
printing a document.
I'm thinking about committee papers, office documents,
announcements, consultations, requests for information etc etc.
(You all know the volume of stuff which we in the Registry churn
out :-) )
I exaggerate for effect but you see what I mean. No questions of
the latest web technical developments, probably no colour and only
sufficient attention to layout to ensure the message is transmitted
clearly and well.
Web technicians (hardware, software and information sub-
specialisms) will be needed to establish/maintain etc the
infrastructure but the data is the province of the (lots of) owners.
This sort of use is in addition to many/most of the sorts of things
covered earlier in the thread. It is an area in which "the perfect is
the enemy of the good" and progress is often best undertaken
alongside getting something done.
My two penn'orth anyway.
Regards
Jim Whitaker
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