- Headlines/June 12, 1 997

~ UCFV’s website guy — how he can n help you (and how he can )

- ~ Bryan Daniel is UCFV’s website:

- administrator, but that doesn’t mean that...

he’s going to design your department's

web page. UCFV’ S approach to its website .

is partially
centralized and ~
partially
decentralized. This .
‘means that the top
two levels of the
site are maintained
technically by
-Bryan, in
" partnership with
Community
Relations, which is
responsible for.
_ content and design. L
Department web ..
pages are the — .
responsibility of the
the department, although training is
provided and technical support and
standardized graphics are available.
Although he can’t do all the work for ©
you, Bryan is available to consult with you
about setting up tools you can use to
design your web page.
Bryan joined UCFV last summer as a
computer help-desk operator, and moved °

into the website administrator job when it .

was created in February. He had...

previously worked at Murphy Aircraft for

nine years, in charge of, among other
things, all computer operations.
Bryan’ s job has two main functions. |
Half of the time he’s the website _
administrator, which means that he:
installs and maintains web server
hardware and software a

maintains web user accounts

“maintains the top two organizational
levels of UCFV’s website:
creates and maintains technical
standards for web development at
UCFV including types of editors, -
scripts, languages and other tools
Supported
provides web services 5 for those .
‘developing UCFV web pages,

including scripts, forms, search engines .

‘and counters :.
provides advice and training to v
‘departments maintaining web pages.
provides site analysis to departments to
assist them in web page maintenance

ne

Website administrator Bryan Daniel

. provides log file analysis, including hit :

“ counts, flow of traffic, origins : of’.
visitors, etc. (available soon) ‘
e answers technical questions about the
website.

For the other half :

~ of his time he :

2 provides technical -

- support for UCFV
Online, which

administers or

computer-mediated

~ courses. This part

~ of his position’

~ involves installing
and maintaining
First Class.
‘conferencing -
software, setting up.
‘Student and
instructor accounts,

. providing instructor technical support,
- maintaining the UCFV Online web site etc.

The fact that UCFV: has a half-time

. website administrator illustrates just how, - :
“rapidly the World Wide Web has grown.

(Who'd heard of it three years ago? Not

“many of us. We were still struggling to.
“figure out gophers, archies, and ftps back =
then.) UCFV’s systems : administrator Rob
-Hamm was initially responsible for this
-new area of computer network -’ -

7 maintenance, but the tasks associated with’ :
“it mushroomed as everyone rushed to:
design their own page and the “official”

UCFYV site took form concurrently.
Need to improve your department’ s

- page or haven’ teven got one. yet? Bryan ~

~~ recently will be holding HTML workshop =:

-and will be planning additional workshops
"in the Employee Development. Centre. (If |

~ you are interested in a future workshop, _
send e-mail to danielb@ucfv.be.ca)

. On the design front, if your department -

would like a rectangular heading of a.
design similar.to those heading up all.

second-level web pages on the UCFV site, .
~ contact Dave Stephen of Community ~*~
~ Relations (e- mail stephend). If you want

to use other versions of the UCFV logo,”
consult the Community Relations Guide

-- to Logo Use at:
7 http: www. ucfv.be. calerd/logo- “use. html.

_.-The Chemistry department has been .. -

inviting Chemistry 11 classes from local
high schools to its Abbotsford and

“Chilliwack labs this spring in order to
introduce students to Its Programs and

facilities. aan

Department members have also visited

.- Several elementary schools for science

ok demonstrations, alli in an effort to Promote,
“science. :

‘Pictured above: Two students from Sardis .
Secondary in the Chilliwack campus lab. °