As we deploy a new website for a faculty (and the associated schools) in WIP II Phase 2 we will disestablish the old one.This means that any content on the old site must be handled prior to decommissioning, either covered by newly written content (probably either on the new faculty site or elsewhere on Homesite) or dropped/deleted (a legitimate option for some content).
In the current delivery approach:
- Phase 3
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- covers
- postgraduate information
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- - all postgraduate degrees/programmes, the Faculty of Graduate Research's site and http://www.victoria.ac.nz/postgradlife/
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- short courses relevant to postgraduate students run by the Faculty of Graduate Research
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- Phase 4 covers
- all (
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- subject to final agreed scope) the sites for research centres, institutes and chairs
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- Phase 5 - a number of student information sites
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As the project team's understanding of faculty and schools (current sites and the proposed future sitssites) has grown, we have realised that our proposed delivery approach can be improved.
The main direction for improvement lies in pruning content areas off all the existing faculty and school sites in repeat . This would be done by repeat "by content area" sweeps, and rewriting it the content for the Homesite, all prior to redeveloping the first new faculty site. This pruning, at least in part, will cover content that would otherwise be in a future stage, but where doing it earlier seems to make more sense. Each
Each sweep would reduce the size and complexity of all the faculty and school sites, so that eventually the only content left is that which will be covered on the new site or dropped altogether. The project team all believe that this revised approach is better, as does Nathan. However, this leaves some important questions that need answers before an approach decision can be made.
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