Difference: WebUpdateStatus (13 vs. 14)

[NOT DONE] Porting contact list to Imager twiki

• ascertain whether full contact list for students go on twiki? If twiki is written in php, should be simple.
  • --> inform KM. If can, give assessment if whether this is so simple Andre can do it quickly; if not really simple, then we need to hand it off to someone else.
  • 08/11: AM thinks twiki written in PERL; doesn't know. KM advises AM speak to mike sanderson, our IT guy who knows twiki, and get a better assessment of difficulty. KM will do introduction.

[NOT DONE] Document:

[DONE 09/16] Finding Us

• "We are in" text block has unclosed anchor tag (shows up in Safari)
• Include links to page sections at top (orientation); consider dropping "Quick Links" heading, or something else to make the fact that links go to out of and inside page, less confusing.
• check permissions on maps links (floor maps) *
• Mods to "Within Building" section:
  • link to whole-building map (all floors) at top of this section; no thumbnail
  • lose the bullets on individual floors
  • boldface the subjet of 1st 3 bullets: "*Imager faculty offices:* Floors X6 and X8."
  • drop the complete map item at bottom
  • If there actually is a "you are here" on the single floor maps, this note is helpful. Include all these extra wayfinding tips under the all-floors bullet.

[NOT DONE] Photos: Michiel van de Panne is the person to bug. Grad students might take photos; can ask them to also generate thumbnails of desired size (smaller than existing)

[DONE 09/16] Faculty

• put reg faculty in flat list, alphabetic by last name
• Associates in separate list at bottom, also alphabetic
• retain links to imagerweb research pages (graphics etc) for reg faculty
• Missing Michiel

[DONE 09/16] Research / Graphics etc

• Boldface names
• ensure full name is first item in description for all (even if have to slightly rejig first sentence (Alla Shefer; Dinesh Pai, Ron Rensink)
• delete redundant text, such as wolfgangs" member of CS, etc

[NOT DONE] Publications

• papers need to be dumped; Andre needs to find imager web

[DONE] Staff:

• drop the bullet
• BF the name

[NOT DONE] Courses

• space out top nav menu, so items more clearly separated //done
• try to increase contrast between 1st and 2nd level headings (using color, shading, indentation, ???)
• EECE 596 goes in "other"//done
• 544: "MAGUS" shoudl say "MAGIC"//done
• 344: Add sentence at end: "344 satisfies the graduate PhD breadth requirement."//done
• consistency in listing course units (add to ones missing - will need to look up)//done
• consistency in linking. Add links; 1st choice is instructor's website; when that site's URL looks suspiciously datable, link insted to SSC AND email the instructor to say what and why you've done this. Point to 344 as an example of how they can fix their problem. (link to current-term which is a forward to the current term).

[DONE 09/16] Joining Imager. ADD

• under all students:
  • (1) Talk to faculty!
• new grads: okay
• undergrads: * (1) Get to know faculty, at every opportunity - through for examples committees and our Tri-Mentoring program [LINK] as well as research. * (2) Take courses in the areas you're interested in. * (after directed study): If not ready for a thesis or paid research assistantship, volunteer. * Canadians can apply to the NSERC USRA program to work with a specific professor [linkn to http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/UG-PC/USRA-BRPC_eng.asp]

[NOT DONE] Postdocs need own list

• same style as grad students? (is problem that don't have right data?)

[NOT DONE??] Upper right image:

[DONE] News:

• Right sidebar (news) needs to be automatically connected to center News section (done)
  • Put past years into "year" folders. Annual task, mid-year is to dump previous calendar year into a year file and link it in, following current example (which Andre will implement) * is it possible to have right sidebar, individual items, cut off after X characters (several lines) then end in "more" with a link to the full item in News section? So more items can fit on a page. (done)
• Fix formatting (parser is written for OLT, just need to retrieve it).

[NOT DONE] Images of Imager:

• good photos, some professionally acquired, laid out carefully one time. This is not an automatically updated repository.
  • rename the section to "images of imager"
  • make "large thumbnails" (w/ varying aspect ratios) smaller than now, e.g. ~3/row.
  • [For now, use current images, and plan to augment or swap when get better ones.]

[DONE] Banner

• • If possible, in redesign make it thinner.
  • KM 8/08: the "CS|Computer Science" is graphically quite awkward. How about making "imager lab" a little smaller; putting "CS}Computer Science" to right side of banner; moving banner more central; vertically aligning all 3 elements, and downsizing til it fits.
  • KM 8/09: HCI -> User Interfaces (I just decided that we don't want an acronym here anyway, and this finesses the issue of HCI versus Haptics)

• • KM 8/18/09: missing heidrich, van de panne in graphics page, as well as faculty page.

• • Move "associates" to bottom of each category (e.g. Fels to bottom of Graphics)
  • otherwise, put in alphabetic order (here and on research page)
  • Murphy is an Associate
  • Meitner/sheppard might need to switch groups (KM will check w/ Munzner)
  • Create and/or correctly populate the three research pages (graphics etc). [waiting for faculty to supply mat'l]
  • on graphics.php, Bridson bio has a typo "ExoticMatter" seems out of place.
  • Dinesh Pai's bio spills past picture - looks like formatting needs to be cleaned up to handle this situation.

[NOT DONE] *Courses

• • See "Courses" section under Faculty to-do list for overview
  • structure page into 3 areas (linked from top), and populate with the existing courses.
  • remove the descriptions (or just keep the first couple of sentences; but compact everything so courses for a given area roughly fit above the crease. E.g the web link can be incorporated into the title listing; drop prerequisites.
  • link to course schedule pages (ugrad, grad) at top with note: "For current schedule information, see [undergrad] [grad] "
  • remove other notes at top of page *
  • Otherwise awaiting content from faculty

[NOT DONE] Joining Imager

• Awaiting faculty content

[NOT DONE] Publications:

• • drop old publications page content into current one
  • same for theses
  • Malan to coordinate with Brad Swerdfeger on this
  • [we will maintain status quo on pubs database til dept change online (early 2010??)

BUG LIST (broken links etc)

• [fixed] News and events, right sidebar title - broken link
• navigation "Local" link should have "logon" instead of "view" inside the URL to bugs.cs.ubc.ca for the Imager wiki.

Completed items

• [DONE 8/4/09] combine grads, undergrads
• plus a lot of other stuff...

• [DONE] People data file (students, postdocs):
  • make sure it's updated.
  • postdocs are currently not listed in the same way; have different fields. JOK needs to fix this.

Postdocs now have their own page; set up with Tamara so it can be updated the same way as the regular student page