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Statement of Purpose
The web site will:
- Promote the role of the Department of Environmental
Health in providing environmental and occupational safety
and health through teaching, research, and community
service
- Provide an informational resource to help people
understand and better manage the relationships between
environment and health
- Offer a two-way communication tool
- Present the DEH site as a gate way to a vast
information web tailored to our audience.
Target audiences
- Prospective students - graduate and undergrad
- Public seeking information about environmental health
issues
- Safety and health professionals, employers, workers
and others seeking training programs
- Researchers from the university community - UW and
other institutions
- Other groups we now reach or that have an interest in
our areas of expertise
Short-term goals for web
site
- Update outdated information and correct bad
links
- Establish more content aimed at general public (e.g.
newsletter articles)
- Allow prospective students to gather all the
information they would need to apply for the program
- Describe the research, teaching and service done in
the department
- Provide links to all departmental functions and web
pages
Longer-range goals for web
site
- Move to a next-generation design within a year
- Provide a balanced picture of the department and its
activities, including its position within the world of
environmental health
- Make site easily searchable
- Provide user-friendly information about environmental
and occupational health
- Develop a site that can be used by international
users, the visually impaired and people with all types of
computers and browsers
- Consider incorporating a new departmental logo into
redesigned site
- Establish the DEH web site as a resource that our
audiences will bookmark
Goals for web site redesign
process
- Identify target audiences
- Complete an analysis of pieces missing and how we
would like to have people move through the site
- Design a site architecture that allows for future
growth
- Design an attractive home page taking into account
content, layout, style
- Set minimum standards for pages within the site,
including identification of the author, update date and
link to the departmental home site
- Provide some information on-site, but provide links
to information controlled by others such as class
schedules and admission requirements
- Provide a mechanism for programs to have access to
their own pages
- Determine responsibilities for developing new content
and maintaining the web site
- Market the home page and the home pages of program
subsites
- Explore ways to allow online registration and payment
for courses
- Develop practices at the departmental level to groom,
correct and update our sites (a regular schedule of
preventive maintenance)
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