Today we received the evaluations from last week's Web Development Symposium (held Nov. 9, 2006), and judging from the responses, a solid majority found the event to be extremely worthwhile. By my calculations, 81% gave the session an overall rating of 4 or 5, on a scale of 1-5 where 5 = "excellent." We are very thankful for the enthusiastic response.
A common thread through the 94 evaluations was a desire for more information and training around use of the university's web templates. We will be addressing that need during the spring semester by offering, through FDI, a course entitled "Dreamweaver 8 (Part Four): Working with the University's Website Templates." Our web developer, Elaine Oliver, will teach the course, which will be offered three times. Those interested in further training, please watch the FDI website for that course posting.
Planning ahead, we've already decided based on the success of last week's event to have a second Web Development Symposium next spring, with a focus on the enterprise CMS project. We're not ready to announce a date, but we're looking at late May or early June, which should give us time to have the CMS operational.
Again, thank you to those who attended the symposium. VBS is in the process of producing an online package -- video synched with the presentation slides. I'll send out notification as soon as that's available.