Colleagues,
I know an issue
similar to this was discussed some time ago, however I hope it's worth asking
again, as thinking may have changed over time.
We have a number of
legacy servers in the University hosting static content generated with MS
FrontPage.
To my eye most of
these pages are outdated, difficult to use, and they do not reflect well on the
University as they are all hosted under *.wmin.ac.uk/ addresses. They also have
no standards for accessibility or other guidelines enforceable on
them.
Some of these sites
are for cross-institutional groups, and for that reason there tend to be
objections to moving the sites in to our CMS. What do you do in your
University?
I am unusually
inclined to say "it's our way or the highway" on this - if we are hosting the
site of a cross-institutional group, of course all the logos of the group should
be on the CMS pages, but I really don't see a problem with the page being
primarily University of Westminster branded. If people really can't handle that,
I'm happy to recommend external suppliers to them.
I don't want to
stifle good academic web sites, but I also don't want embarrassing FrontPage
mess kicking around under our domain name. What are your
thoughts?
Rob
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