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Several tools were designed to assist faculty and staff develop content for their web pages. The document on the left shows a portion of instructions of the process. On the right is an example of a completed site map or "tracking tree".
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The image on the left is a screen shot of a web editor for University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine content management system. On the right is the screen shot of the web editor for a custom faculty database hosted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. My responsiblity at Penn Vet includes training faculty and staff to use these web editors.
While designing web sites at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, I developed sites in XHTML and CSS2. The files or skins were prepared as templates in Dreamweaver for each project, setting editable areas for the client to edit in Contribute (see image on the left). Currently in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine content management system, the template is installed at the root of the system. One skin is implemented but new skins are interchangeable by the Admin of the CMS (image on the right).
I attended usability workshops at the User Interface Conference 2008 and was a CMS panelist. To fully understand web browser and cross-platform issues, I participated in Penn's ISC web browser testing teams 2003, 2004.
Following best practices, I designed and performed usability tests before launching the web site at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. First determining the audience, a variety of targeted users were observed as they followed the script and searched for topics on the web site. The image on the left is a portion of a test script. The answers were tracked and later recorded in a spread sheet like the image below right. Design changes were implemented prior to launch based upon the patterns that were revealed during the usability testing.
