first interview

Hardware/Software Inventory:
Dreamweaver/Photoshop/Fireworks Jeni does it alone/built it/maintains it

Documentation – templates…

PHP for form handling…sends info in an email. Seems to be good enough for now because employees enter mail in manually anyway. But in the future it might be better to have a database linked to the online forms.

-hesitant about having database automatically update w/ info, they like to approve the updates (ie for clients)

Network: LAN: Hosting – Seg-ment they do IT stuff, network troubleshooting, etc.



Social/Organizational:
Goals have changes since the site was built
Was a tool to get info out to clients so they can read about the organization

-Now they are trying to make it more useful to the clients. Let people submit info online and save time, save $ on postage.

Audience – development professionals, alumni relation people and so on for colleges and high school
High school and college students, sororities and fraternities. young people, don't believe older people would be interested in using the web to update info

Sor & Frat chapters and high school & colleges are the two major sections of audience and that’s how the website is split now.

-don't want to put directories online b/c they don't want to deal w/ security issues


Employees within the company don’t have use for the site, it’s entirely for the ‘customers’

Workflow in site maintenance – adding more forms, developing forms, changing forms, fixing templates, etc. No monthly newsletters or content update. site is pretty static, things are done/added on a need basis

2 hours a week on the site.

Wants to have usability testing done, doesn’t want a redesign.

Cost of site – few hours of time a week + cost of hosting it.

Jeni -
self-taught, knows php and html
willing to learn other languages but doesn't have alot of time
can't make huge changes to site b/c doesn't have lots of time to make them (about 2hrs/week)