I went to the big meeting today with the University webmaster, campus technology services (ITS), my boss, my new faculty member I’ll be assisting (nice but looks far different than his photo), and my advisor about the new LIS website. I found out that we’re “atypical” in that we purchased our own server and are hosting it ourselves. A new program will begin in January where the University will actually allow departments to have their own WordPress website. Of course, only six months after we get our own server! The University is encouraging students to use Google sites through them to build their websites, so that’ll be something new to talk about with the newcomers this weekend.
Anyways, I was pleased but embarrassed about being praised for my work which has been 98% done in total isolation. However, I’m proud of the work I’ve done and it will be hard to hand it over to the maintainer. I have to finish up some things tonight so I can put in a service request to have the website redirected to go live. Oh…and one tiny thing… we got approved to go live! :D
I’ll be working throughout the night on getting the things done that HAVE to be done and then I’ll send off my service request. Here’s to hoping that we’ll have our website up before Orientation this Saturday!
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