San José State University : Web Services : Announcements

Announcements

Listed below are a few major accomplishments of the Web Services Unit

Training
- Web accessibility
  - Spring 2008: Offered 3 workshops and 3 open lab sessions
- WebCMS 7
  - Spring 2008: Offered 3 workhops attended by 34 Web content editors or webmasters representing 24 websites
- Launch (or re-launch) websites
  - Spring 2008: Launched 6 websites using WebCMS 7 and 4 websites using Web Template Kit
Accessibility reports (using AccMonitor) is made available to all websites in May, 2008
Google Apps @ SJSU launched in April, 2008
Human Resources, Accessibility & Web Services websites are re-launched using accessible templates in February, 2008
Website Content Management System (WebCMS 7) is launched in January, 2008

Training
- Web accessibility
  - Spring 2007: Offered 3 workshops attended by 48 attendees
  - Fall 2007: Offered 4 workshops attended by 20 attendees and 3 open lab sessions
Accessible Web template kit (version 3.0) launched in November, 2007
Accessibility reports (using AccMonitor) of all SJSU critical administrative websites is made available in November, 2007
Re-launch (version 2.2) of accessible SJSU home, search and top level pages in December, 2007
News Admin & SJSU News are re-launched with SJSU in the News in December, 2007
Identify all existing critical administrative websites in February, 2007

Webservices Unit is awarded CATS outstanding Professional Service Award in March, 2006
Mail Form Handler re-launched with new features in Septermber, 2006

With the hiring of San Jose State’s first university webmaster and at the direction of the Provost and AVP of Academic Technology, the Web Services Unit was created in December 2002