Slides for the workshop session on “Update your Web Skills” (session A8) at the IWMW 2001 event held at Queen's University Belfast on 25-27 June 2001. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions.html#

1. Institutional Web Management 2001 Workshop
25-27 June 2001
Feedback
A8: Update your web skills
Helen Varley Sargan
University Computing Service
and
Ingrid Evans, JANET Web Caching Service

2. 2
Institutional Web Management 2001 Workshop
25-27 June 2001
Aims of this session
 At the end of the session participants should be aware of :
a range of authoring strategies and the circumstances they are
most suitable for use
approaches to indexing particularly in the context of higher
education
the role of caching, the issues and problems surrounding it, and
aspects of helping users cope with caching

3. 3
Institutional Web Management 2001 Workshop
25-27 June 2001
We need
 Help with scheduling and undertaking updating content
 Guidance on creating and writing templates, stylesheets
 Deeper knowledge of publishing databases and associated
technologies
 Guidance on content management

4. 4
Institutional Web Management 2001 Workshop
25-27 June 2001
We looked at:
 Authoring strategies
 Indexing
 Using the Janet cache

5. 5
Institutional Web Management 2001 Workshop
25-27 June 2001
Recommendations
 Feedback to Janet cache to investigate poss. of searchable form for
non-cachable items and software developments to allow caching on
IP-authenticated sites, and to improve error message page for users
 Full day regional workshops to give advice and guidance on managing
content - keeping it up-to-date, managing flow and templating -
Manchester, London, Birmingham, Glasgow were suggested as
locations
 Netskills courses for both Databases and Content Management were
recommended

6. 5
Institutional Web Management 2001 Workshop
25-27 June 2001
Recommendations
 Feedback to Janet cache to investigate poss. of searchable form for
non-cachable items and software developments to allow caching on
IP-authenticated sites, and to improve error message page for users
 Full day regional workshops to give advice and guidance on managing
content - keeping it up-to-date, managing flow and templating -
Manchester, London, Birmingham, Glasgow were suggested as
locations
 Netskills courses for both Databases and Content Management were
recommended