Matt Carter's Page

I was recently asked to put together an overview of what it would take to require the use of our WCMS system on campus. I see both pros and cons to this but mainly feel it is not an ideal approach for our campus.  We are historically decentralized when it comes to the web.  Each department runs their own website and has always had basically free reign to do what they want. Obviously this has had issues with branding and with departments not updating open source WCMS tools etc.  Much of this is…See More

We are starting to see an increase in departments moving URLs.  Part of this is a result of many old departmental websites still being hosted at a /~department url. The issue we have recently been discussion is how to best handle redirects for these pages.  In some cases it is easy when the site moves the same content to a new URL and we can easily do a 301 redirect that maps all content to the new URL.The questions arises about what best approach to take when the move also involved a new…See More

After many years I am finally getting some traction to get a Web Advisory Group together for our University. I've found it best to give good examples when presenting to our upper adminstration, so I'm looking for some links to Missions, Charters, etc at other schools asa resource to help develop the core functions of this group.Thanks-mattSee More