the idea

*AUE.ae

*Agenda

*Why Do We Need a Website (who are we targeting)?

*Usability*Visual Limits*Where Are We?*Where Do We Want To Go?*Can We Dream of More?*What Do We Need?*Discussions & Questions

*Why Do We Need a Website? Who

are we targeting?

We have a window on the cyberspace because we want to interact with a number of identifiable groups *Our Students *Potential Students*University’s staff , instructors and

administrative *Potential workforce *International linkage *Our monitors

*Usability

“It is the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.” ~ ISO*

*A website should maintain consistency *A surfer should be able to answer questions like where

am I? where have I been? And where can I go?)*Page content should be easy to scan

*ISO International Standardization Organization

*Visual LimitsWhat should a university website look

like?

*It’s not about what we want to see, it’s about what are audience want to see.

Despite the pros of our current website, we have identified a list technical issues:*High Security Risk*It Is Just A Stack Of Papers*The current website is a separate island

*Where Are We?Technical Prospective

*Just to explainAUE Systems

AUE Systems• ARD• SA• Finance• HR• Library• Portals

AUE.ae

ARD

Portals

Finance

HR

SA

etc.

*Where Are We?Business Prospective

We have a website…It’s functioning…But… * Low Usability

* Information is hard to find* Links on the top, the left and the right!

* News & Events* Inactive / Low Quality Forms * University Information Is Not Always Up-To-Date* Jab Application Form:

* Too Long* No Attachments* Hard To Extract * Cannot Be Transferred

*Where Do We Want To Go?

I believe we want our website to be:*Useful, attractive and user-friendly*Up-to-date

*Calendars, schedules, study plans, announcements, etc.

*Listing our news and events, and allowing our users to interact

*Can We Dream of More?

*Public discussion pages (or conversation walls)*Photo albums *Student council blog *Success stories*Ask Subhi!*Social Websites

* Facebook – Twitter * Youtube * Marketing Ideas: http

://admissions.kettering.edu/video/confessions-whykettering.cfm

*What Do We Need?

*Forming a team or a committee incorporating members from most of the website targets mentioned previously.

*Defining and announcing a clear list of responsibilities and processes.

*Increasing the information technology dep. manpower.

*Hardware and connectivity are well maintained by the IT department.

*So What’s Next?

*We Need To Be Quick*2 Weeks For Staging

*Send Your Feedback!*What Do We Need To Do The Swap?

*Then We Officially Launch The New http://www.AUE.ae

*Ongoing Development…

*Website References

* Oxford (US) * http://www.ox.ac.uk/

* Texas State University (US)* http://www.txstate.edu/

* Harvard (UK)* http://www.harvard.edu/

* Bond (AU)* http://www.bond.edu.au/

* Virginia (US)* http://www.virginia.edu /

* University of California (US)* http://www.ucla.edu/

* State University of New York* http://www.suny.edu/

*DiscussionsQuestions

CommentsFeedback…

*Thank You